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Series
Home Office: Metropolitan Police Estimates and Accounts
Catalogue reference: HO 395
What's it about?
HO 395
This series contains two bound copies of printed submissions from the Metropolitan Police Office Receiver to the Under-Secretary of State.The estimates in the second volume (HO 395/2) are marked "confidential: for the use of the Secretary of...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HO 395
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Metropolitan Police Estimates and Accounts
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Date (When the record was created)
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1884-1906
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains two bound copies of printed submissions from the Metropolitan Police Office Receiver to the Under-Secretary of State.
The estimates in the second volume (HO 395/2) are marked "confidential: for the use of the Secretary of State only". The estimates include a covering note explaining plans and assumptions, followed by a detailed analysis of estimated cost of salaries, buildings (official and residential), pensions etc. There are also supporting tables referring to, for example, ratio of police per head of population and number of prisoners kept overnight in cells. The second volume includes the published version of the accounts. There is some manuscript annotation of the accounts.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also MEPO 5
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2 volume(s)
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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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- Topics
- Pay and pensions
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9259/
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