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Catalogue description High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Admiralty Registrar: Instance Business Correspondence and Papers
| Reference: | HCA 52 |
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| Title: | High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Admiralty Registrar: Instance Business Correspondence and Papers |
| Description: |
This series comprises inward correspondence of the Admiralty Registry on a variety of administrative matters arising from its instance business, for the years 1853 to 1946. Much of the correspondence is from the Treasury, Admiralty and other government departments, and concerns such matters as accounts, appointments, statistics, etc. Copies of outward letters have been filed with later papers. There are also registers of correspondence, indexed under subjects, etc, and showing the action taken, for the years 1856 to 1963. |
| Date: | 1853-1963 |
| Arrangement: |
The documents are arranged and catalogued chronologically, and the number under which each transaction was first registered is indicated in the catalogue. |
| Related material: |
Instance case papers, mostly predating the correspondence in this series are in: |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
High Court of Admiralty, 1340-1875 Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice; Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, 1875-1970 |
| Physical description: | 119 bundle(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Selection and destruction information: | Some of the papers in pieces 1-4 were destroyed in 1937, apparently under the terms of a Destruction Schedule of 3 May 1922, because they were not considered worthy of permanent preservation. |
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