National Debt Office: Abolition of Slavery Act 1833, Registers of Compensation Paid...

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Reference	NDO 4
Title	National Debt Office: Abolition of Slavery Act 1833, Registers of Compensation Paid to Slave Owners
Date	1835-1843
Description	These consist of payment books showing the sum awarded and the date of the Treasury warrant, and containing the signatures of the claimants' representatives; also miscellaneous accounts, certificates of deaths and marriages, correspondence etc.
Related material	For records of the Slave Compensation Commission see AO 14 T 71
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Creator	National Debt Office, 1786 Slave Compensation Commission, 1833-1842
Physical description	33 volume(s)
Access conditions	Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition	Slave Compensation Commission , 1846 (Deputy Keepers Report, VIII, app I, pp 22)
Custodial history	The earliest records of the National Debt Office to be acquired appear to be those relating to slave compensation which had been held by the Slave Compensation Commission and were transferred to the Rolls House in 1846.
Accruals	Series is accruing.
Administrative/ biographical background	The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 abolished slavery in the British dominions, and a sum of £20 million was granted by Parliament to compensate the slave proprietors. The actual payment of the compensation claims awarded by the Slave Compensation Commissioners was made by the national debt commissioners under Treasury warrant.

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