Catalogue description Content: Folio 168. Letter from Edwin Chadwick, Secretary to the Poor Law Commission...

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Details of MH 12/8475/78
Reference: MH 12/8475/78
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Content: Folio 168. Letter from Edwin Chadwick, Secretary to the Poor Law Commission to Samuel King, Clerk to the Guardians of Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union. The Commission in directing an order adjusting the compensation for the addition of parishes to the Mitford and Launditch Union, discover that the board of guardians have applied for a £4,000 loan for the cost of alterations and additions to Gressenhall Workhouse. As the total cost is £4729 7s 9d, this extra £729 7s 9d cannot be procured from the poor rates unless it is authorised to be raised by an order of the Commission. Therefore an order should be raised to cover the whole amount and enclosed are forms for this. Paper Number: 5731/A/1837. Poor Law Union Number 302. Counties: Norfolk.
Date: 23 June 1837
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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