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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)AC25/4/1-42
TitleOfficial papers relating to House of Commons business
Extentapprox. 43 items
Date1920
DescriptionPrinted, typescript and manuscript correspondence, notes, minutes and memoranda; mainly arranged chronologically; may contain copy correspondence [and some drafts]; relating to House of Commons business: Treaty relating to settlement of War debts, individual Honours, successor to Gore Brown in the Chairmanship of the Conciliation and Arbitration Board, 'Coercion Bill' and Civil Servants in Dublin, proposed levy on War Wealth, Treasury Bill rates, [Cabinet] minutes, Naval Estimates, Ministry expenditures and Finance, Economy and Ministry of Labour, Ministers' Remuneration, etc, 1920
Correspondents: Buckingham Palace, Rt. Hon. Andrew Bonar Law [Leader of Unionist Party, 1911-1921 (resigned); Leader of the House of Commons, 1916-1921 (resigned); Lord Privy Seal, 1919-1921 (resigned)], Davies, [Sir (Norman Fenwick)] Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury and Official Head of HM Civil Service, 1919-1939], [Gen. Rt. Hon. Sir (Cecil Frederick) Nevil] Macready [Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, 1918-1920; Commanding-in-Chief the Forces in Ireland, 1920-1922], George Curzon [1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston; Leader of the House of Lords, 1916-1924; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1919-1924; various other political offices], Inchcape, [Maurice Pascal Alers] Hankey [1st Baron of The Chart; Cabinet, 1919-1938, and Clerk of the Privy Council, 1923-1938], [Munay], Austen Chamberlain [acting as Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1919-1921] and others
Includes: /14-/23 Typescript and manuscript correspondence and memoranda relating to situation in Ireland; /24-/25 Typescript memoranda on proposed levy on War Wealth; /28-/30 Typescript correspondence relating to Treasury Bill rates; /34-/36 Typescript and manuscript correspondence and memoranda relating to Naval Estimates, expenditure of Ministry of Health, and Finance; /39-/42 Printed, typescript and manuscript minutes, notes and correspondence relating to Select Committee on Ministers' Remuneration, association of the offices of First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister, and question of attaching a salary to the office of Prime Minister
Access StatusOpen
Physical Description/22a is in addition to /22

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