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Folio 836. Letter from George Spencer, Clerk to the Guardians of the Keighley Poor...

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Reference MH 12/15161/566
Date 1855-12-20
Description Folio 836. Letter from George Spencer, Clerk to the Guardians of the Keighley Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Board, informing them that the shopkeepers who were given tickets for relief in kind by Edward Sutcliffe, late Relieving Officer of Bingley, are impatient for their accounts to be paid. He reminds the Board of his letter of 29 November and asks if the guardians can legally or properly pay them. Sutcliffe has been summoned by the auditor for the balance of his account but it is believed he has absconded and gone to America. Annotated: see 45213/1855. Paper Number: 48390/1855. Poor Law Union Number 571. Counties: Yorkshire West Riding.
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