Catalogue description Exchequer and Audit Department: Section Reference Files

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Details of AO 30
Reference: AO 30
Title: Exchequer and Audit Department: Section Reference Files
Description:

This series consists of reference files compiled by, and for the use of, sections of the Exchequer and Audit Department responsible for the audit of specific account or subjects. For the purpose of discharging their audit responsibilities the staff of the Exchedquer and Audit Department operated in small groups or sections. Each section was responsible for the audit of specific accounts or subjects and accordingly was required to compile a set of reference files as a permanent aid to their work.

Each file contains a contents index.

Date: 1851-1977
Arrangement:

Each section kept a record, a journal index, of the journals raised, and the journal reference number is a composite of the year in which it was raised, its numerical place in the index, and the account audited.

Related material:

Post Office Section files from 1876 to 1964 are in AO 27

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commissioners of Audit, 1785-1866

Exchequer and Audit Department, 1867-1984

Physical description: 58 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure

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