Record

LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/G/AC 12B
TitleCharitable Trusts Acts Amendment Bill 1881
Extent1 file
Date1881
DescriptionPrinted petition against the Bill; correspondence relating to a meeting to discuss the possible consequences of passing the Bill; letters from the Earl of Chichester [CMS President] supporting the Bill; legal opinion from Nathaniel Bridges and a letter from R. Wardlaw Thompson, LMS [London Missionary Society], suggesting exclusion from the Bill for missionary societies. [Missionary societies had been excluded from the control of Charity Commissioners; the Amendment Bill appeared to cancel some of these exclusions]
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