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Board of Trade: Finance Department: Registered Files (F Series)

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Reference	BT 15
Title	Board of Trade: Finance Department: Registered Files (F Series)
Date	1865-1988
Description	Registered files of the Board of Trade's Finance Department and its predecessors. Until 1867 these are records of the separate Accounts and Pensions Departments; thereafter they are files of the Finance Department. Also included are files of the Enemy Property Branch.
Arrangement	This series is grouped into three sequences: BT 15/1-70: files registered up to 1918. BT 15/71-458: files registered from 1919 onwards. These were originally catalogued are arranged under subject-coded headings. BT 15/459 onwards: Administration of Enemy Property Department papers and claims by the Soviet Government against the UK in respect of Baltic States' assets and gold.
Related material	Records of the Trading with the Enemy Department and Administration of Enemy Property Division are in: BT 271 BT 272 BT 273 The majority of the records of the Home Grown Timber Committee are in BT 71
Separated material	For re-registered F series files see BT 279
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department	F file series
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Creator	Board of Trade, Accounts Department, 1867 Board of Trade, Finance Department, 1867-1945 Board of Trade, Finance Division, 1945-1970 Board of Trade, Pensions Department, 1851-1867
Physical description	482 boxes, files and volumes
Access conditions	Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Unpublished finding aids	There is a register of retained papers in BT 19

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