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Reference Number496.5 BA11241/D9/3/1 - 2
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/2/21
TitleOverseers Committee
DescriptionMinutes of the Overseers' Committee. Matters discussed include changes to poor and city rates as a consequence of changing city parish boundaries; re-valuation of Worcester; names of rate collectors and their parishes; registration of electors; supplemental valuation lists; naming of streets and numbering houses; government contribution to rates; salaries; payment to man who discovered a body in the canal in 1898; audits of accounts; allowances and exemptions; brief summary of the accountants' and auditors' findings and any response the committee made; response to criticism from the Local Government Board to the Overseers about late and incomplete returns for 1900; half-yearly estimates for city and poor rates showing the overseers' expected expenditure and income; railways, telephones and other factors that alter the rate payable; assessments, re-assessments and appeals against them for identified properties and people; relevant legislation e.g. the Education Act 1902 and Finance Act 1910; resignation and appointment of staff; jury lists; houses vacated by soldiers during the war; omission of properties in the rate books.

Volume 1: 1898 - 1917 (handwritten); Volume 2: 1917 - 1927 (typed).
Date1898-1927
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