Catalogue description Ministry of Health and successors: Local Government Division and Local Government Finance Division: Extinguishment of Tithe Rent Charges, Registered Files (91038 Series) and Registers of Payments of Grants

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Reference: HLG 35
Title: Ministry of Health and successors: Local Government Division and Local Government Finance Division: Extinguishment of Tithe Rent Charges, Registered Files (91038 Series) and Registers of Payments of Grants
Description:

General policy files and registers of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government relating to extinguishment of tithe rentcharges. The files contain information about grants to local authorities, rates and rate refunds, and evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on Tithe Rentcharge in 1934. The registers contain records of payments of grants to various authorities from 1938 to 1955 under the Tithe Act 1936.
Date: 1920-1958
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: 91038 file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Local Government Board, 1871-1919

Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Local Government Finance Division, 1951-1970
Physical description: 28 files and volumes
Administrative / biographical background:

The Tithe Act, 1836, replaced tithes by rent charges on land, which continued to be called tithes. Tithe owners were chargeable with local rates on their tithes or on the rent charge received in lieu of tithe. The 1836 Act was amended eighteen times between that date and 1925, when the State assumed responsibility for the whole of the rate surcharge.

The Royal Commission on Tithe (1934/35) recommended the extinguishment of tithe rent charges and their rateable values and made provision for grants towards subsequent loss of rate income of Rating Authorities in England and Wales.

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