Series
Board of Inland Revenue: Stamp Duty on Newspapers: Correspondence
Catalogue reference: IR 56
Date: 1836-1870
This series consists of surviving nineteenth century files from the Board of Inland Revenue relating to stamp duty on newspapers.
Series
Customs and Excise and predecessors: Registry of British Ships: London Port: Title...
Catalogue reference: CUST 130
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CUST 130
Under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 Customs and Excise undertook the administration of the registration of ships in the ports of Britain. These volumes record the registration of vessels in London port giving ownership, mortgages and a...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CUST 130
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Title (The name of the record)
- Customs and Excise and predecessors: Registry of British Ships: London Port: Title Registers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1786-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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Under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 Customs and Excise undertook the administration of the registration of ships in the ports of Britain. These volumes record the registration of vessels in London port giving ownership, mortgages and a description of each vessel.
Generally these registers are "dead" but occasionally the records of exceptionally long-lived vessels are amended.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Each vessel is allocated a unique port, year and date number in a series beginning at one each year. Usually there are between 150 and 200 entries in a register. In some years odd and even numbers are in separate registers.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Customs, 1671-1909
- Board of Customs and Excise, 1909-2005
- Port of London Registration Committee, 1920-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 337 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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1992-2003 Board of Customs and Excise
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
- Under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 Customs and Excise undertook theadministration of the registration of ships in the ports of Britain.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5706/
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