Catalogue description Board of Trade: Tobacco and Matches Control Board: Papers

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Details of BT 72
Reference: BT 72
Title: Board of Trade: Tobacco and Matches Control Board: Papers
Description:

This series contains statistics on the consumption of tobacco dating back to 1916, as well as the Tobacco and Matches Control board's papers.
Date: 1916-1918
Arrangement:

Both piece and item numbers should be given when ordering a document.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Tobacco and Matches Control Board, 1917-1919
Physical description: 2 box(es)
Unpublished finding aids:

There is a MS index to the papers originally held by the Board in file E38633 in BT 13/95

Administrative / biographical background:

Orders of 15 June and 8 September 1917 under the Defence of the Realm Act set up a Tobacco and Matches Control Board under the Board of Trade to administer orders restricting the importing, distribution and sale of tobacco and matches in 1917 and 1918. The Board was dissolved in 1919.

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