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Series
Land Tax Redemption Office: Registers of Redemption Certificates
Catalogue reference: IR 24
What's it about?
IR 24
This series contains registers of redemption certificates from the Land Tax Redemption Office.For a number of years prior to 1905 many contracts contain plans but where there are no plans it is now often impossible to identify the property...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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IR 24
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Title (The name of the record)
- Land Tax Redemption Office: Registers of Redemption Certificates
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Date (When the record was created)
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1799-1963
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registers of redemption certificates from the Land Tax Redemption Office.
For a number of years prior to 1905 many contracts contain plans but where there are no plans it is now often impossible to identify the property exonerated owing to vague and imprecise descriptions.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The certificates were numbered serially up to about 400,000.
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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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599 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
- Taxation
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- See IR 22/206-7 for indexes to redemptions.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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From 1905 until March 1950 redemptioners were required to provide plans showing the property to be exonerated on redemption. Plans were dispensed with and the form of the Redemption Certificate was simplified for redemptions initiated subsequent to the 31st March 1950 for the introduction of Compulsory redemption by Part V. of the Finance Act, 1949 (12 and 13 Geo. 6 c.47. 30.7.1949).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9362/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: IR
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Land Tax Redemption Office: Registers of Redemption Certificates
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