Catalogue description Content: Folios 36-42. Letter from W E Goodacre, Clerk to the Guardians of the...

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Details of MH 12/9361/27
Reference: MH 12/9361/27
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Content: Folios 36-42. Letter from W E Goodacre, Clerk to the Guardians of the Mansfield Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Commissioners. The union is indebted to the treasurer in the sum of £400 caused by non-payment of monies by the parish of Sutton in Ashfield between the formation of the union in 1836 and July 1841. He complains about the overseer of that parish neglecting his duties. The treasurer allowed the guardians to pay off the debt in instalments. Another instalment is due by tin consequence of an opinion stated by Mr Lumley [William Golden Lumley] on 7& 8 Vic c 101 the guardians have discussed signing a cheque for that amount. He wishes to know if signing the cheque or voting for the same would or would not make them personally viable. Enclosed is a copy of 3 letters from James Robinson, Mansfield, to the guardians. He notes that the Mansfield Union owes him £900 and with further payments that day the debt is nearly £1,000, a sum which he earnestly requests the guardians will not exceed. Due to the difficulty the guardians of the Mansfield Union have in obtaining the arrears from the parish of Sutton in Ashfield he is not going to make any more payments on the unions account unless he the receives money for him to do so. Encloses details of the debt - balance owing on the general account £1,058. For the manufacturing of stockings £238 14s 10d. He later notes that the balance owed to him on the old account remains more or less the same as the previous July and he had hoped that this would have been considerably reduced. As it is nearing a time when his accounts are due to be balanced asks that the sum owed is substantially reduced and interest paid from 2 July accordingly. Copy of a resolution of the guardians dated 23 April 1841 that 4 years be allowed to Sutton in Ashfield to repay the monies to the treasurer, and to the parishes of Mansfield, Mansfield Woodhouse, Hucknall and Blidworth. Largely illegible letter that 'This a most difficult case... really one for the union and the treasurer. How it is to be paid I know not'. Paper Number: 2712/B/1845. Poor Law Union Number 337. Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
Date: 22 Feb 1845
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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