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Catalogue description Local Government Board and predecessors: Legal Department and Order Department: Workhouse Expenditure, Registers of Authorisations
| Reference: | MH 34 |
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| Title: | Local Government Board and predecessors: Legal Department and Order Department: Workhouse Expenditure, Registers of Authorisations |
| Description: |
This series contains registers of authorisations of the Local Government Board and its predecessors relating to works of improvement, extension, alteration and repair of workhouses. The registers note the date and number of orders authorizing expenditure, related correspondence, and details of expenditure, costs, loans, and tenure. |
| Date: | 1834-1902 |
| Related material: |
For copies of orders see: |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Local Government Board, Legal Branch, 1871-1919 Local Government Board, Order Department, 1871-1919 Poor Law Board, Legal Department, 1847-1871 Poor Law Commission, Legal Department, 1834-1847 |
| Physical description: | 11 volume(s) |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Legal Department was established by the Poor Law Commission to provide legal advice and to undertake general legal work, including the drafting of orders issued by the commission. The bulk of the work consisted of the determination of appeals against decisions of district auditors disallowing items in accounts and imposing surcharges. |
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