Catalogue description Post Office: Incident Bills Accounts
This record is held by The Postal Museum
Reference: | POST 6 |
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Title: | Post Office: Incident Bills Accounts |
Description: |
This series consists of a series of quarterly accounts of salaries and allowances due and payable by incidents to the officers, clerks and tradesmen employed by the General, Twopenny and London District Post Offices (the Twopenny Post was replaced by the London District Post in 1844). Items 6/4-6, covering 1794-1799, also include separate quarterly accounts of tradesmen's bills and incidental warrants paid out of the revenue of the Bye and Cross Road Letter Office. Accounts cover a wide variety of items and are arranged under general subject headings, such as 'pensions', 'packets', 'tradesmen' and 'rents'. Entries include what the bill is for, name of person owed and the amount. The date of the Treasury warrant authorising payment is often included at the end of each quarterly account. Volumes are not indexed. The accounts include bills for:
Item 6/11, covering 1805-1809, is different to the rest of the series. It contains certified accounts of the quarterly salaries and allowances paid by incidents upon which the Civil List deduction, or tax, of six pence in the pound is chargeable. Each account lists the 'salaries' and 'incidents' of individual officers and clerks at the General Post Office headquarters in London, including the Postmaster General, Secretary and other senior officers, and the total duty payable each quarter. These accounts probably originate from the office of the Receiver General, who was in charge of all moneys received and paid out of the revenue of the Post Office. Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series. |
Note: | Catalogue entries below series level were removed from Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, in November 2016 because fuller descriptions were available in The Postal Museum's online catalogue. |
Date: | 1766-1854 |
Arrangement: |
Chronological order within sub-series. |
Related material: |
For accounts of warrants issued by the Treasury authorising payment of incident bills, 1817-1852 see POST 5 Although the layout and arrangement of the accounts is slightly different in each series much of the information in pieces 18-34 can be matched up with that in |
Held by: | The Postal Museum, not available at The National Archives |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | 34 volume(s) |
Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
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