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Includes household accounts and expenditure, as well as servants wages and account with a local butcher and grocer.

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Documents relating to legal and operational matters of the York Penetentiary Society.

Includes a bundle of letters and two signed contracts.

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Annual bundles of receipts and bills for shops, investments, insurance, charitable donations and other financial matters. Includes some decorative billheads. Incomplete series

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Scrapbooks containing photographs and newspaper cuttings concerning W A Forster Todd's tenure as Lord Mayor. Also includes volumes of letters and cards received.

Includes notebooks containing observations, receipts, names and addresses and an account of his life in Africa with the British Army.

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Scrapbooks containing photographs and newspaper cuttings concerning G W Shipley's tenure as Sheriff.

A series of numbered pieces of correspondence and bundles of correspondence organised by subject. Includes correspondence, circulars, minutes and other associated papers related to the housing and care of those with learning disabilities following the introduction of the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913. Contains information on patients/cases. There is an index to this correspondence filed in the front of Y/HEA/6/2/4/1 . Note, there are gaps in this series.

Includes monthly accounts for dues and towage, as well as returns from the Ouse Navigation Company for Hull and York.

Weekly statistical returns recording the number and category of persons in receipt of relief.

Includes returns regarding traffic through Naburn lock. Also includes details of commodities, tonnage and dues, as well as some quarterly and annual returns.

Comprises outgoing letter books of the York Poor Law Union to the Local Government Board and incoming correspondence from the Local Government Board to the York Poor Law Union.

Comprises annual returns of the poor rate for York Out-Relief Union; Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union and Flaxton Out-Relief Union.

This series primarily includes rules and bye-laws pertaining to the Humber Conservancy.

Registers of electors eligible to vote in local government elections.

Records receipt of payments by relatives or organisations towards the cost of maintaining people in receipt of out-relief, in a York Poor Law institution or in an asylum.

Includes name of person/organisation; from whom payment received; purpose of payment; amount; and record of payments transferred to the Treasurer of the York Union.

Summary financial statements recording total receipts and expenditure by the Guardians of the York Out-Relief Union.

Statements are completed for each half-year ending in March and September.

Lists name of lunatic, name of poor law union paying the charges, and date of admission. Includes pauper lunatics as well as private and criminal patients. From 1918 returns include a list of 'Service lunatics' from WW1 [note that there are gaps in the series]

Comprises files for individuals who have successfully applied for positions at the York Poor Law Union and Workhouse.The content of each appointement file varies but may include the following: application form; correspondence from applicant; service certificates; references; report of particulars to Local Government Board; confirmation of appointment by Local Government Board; certification of medical fitness and other correspondence.

Rough, unapproved minutes

Includes plans and associated correspondence papers relating to sewage systems in York.

Rough, unapproved minutes of the Board of Guardians of the York Poor Law Union

Draft copies of relief order books (see PLU/3/3/1 - Relief order books). Relief order books were kept by the Clerk of the York Poor Law Union. The books record orders for out-relief granted by the York Guardians in response to applications put forward by the Relieving Officer (see PLU/3/1 Application and Report books).

Details entered into the books may include: name of applicant seeking relief, name of parish/relief district; quantity and description of relief; and how many weeks relief was granted.

Collection of newspaper cuttings and programmes of services relating to the 1300th anniversary of the completion of York Minster.

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Bound approved minutes

Financial ledgers recording balances of accounts for each parish within the York Poor Law Union.

Accounts are recorded in two half-yearly periods ending in March and September.

Correspondence of Cuthbert Joseph Kleiser reflecting his personal and business life and his interest in, and support of the theatre in York and further afield. With the exception of KLE/5/1/25, all correspondence is from other individuals to Kleiser. He is sometimes addressed as 'Joseph', 'Joe' or 'Mr J Kleiser', particularly in the more informal letters from friends and family. Indeed, he signs himself 'J Kleiser' in the single piece of correspondence sent by him to Mr Cahill (KLE/5/1/25).

Meeting minutes from the York Penitentiary Society Ladies Committee

Summary financial statements recording total receipts and expenditure.
Includes statements for the Guardians of the York Union and the York Union Assessment Committee.

Annual returns of all lunatics by the Clerk of the York Board of Guardians. Lists name, age, gender and residence (for example, name of asylum or other residence) of all lunatics chargeable to the York Poor Law Union.

Ledgers containing summary accounts for the York Out-Relief Union.

Includes accounts from individual officers (Treasurer, Vaccination Officer, Relieving Officers and other officials) as well as general accounts relating to the administration of the Union.

Correspondence of other members of the Kleiser family relating to business and family matters. Includes file of empty envelopes addressed to various members of the family.

Approved, bound minutes of the Board of Guardians of the York Poor Law Union.

The Guardians met weekly or fortnightly to discuss and approve a range of matters relating to the administration of the poor law.

The minutes may include references to named individuals if there was a reason for bringing an individual case before the Guardians .

Some volumes are indexed or partially indexed

Ledgers containing summary accounts for the York Poor Law Union.

Includes accounts from individual officers (Treasurer, Vaccination Officer, Relieving Officers and other officials) as well as general accounts relating to the administration of the Union.

Volumes prior to 1849 include summary parochial accounts which record amounts spent on relief in each parish. Parochial accounts from 1849 onwards are recorded in separate parochial ledgers (see PLU/12/3/1).

Approved bound minutes. Most volumes are indexed

Comprises weekly and half-yearly records of wages and salaries for staff of the York Poor Law Union.

Published year books of the York Poor Law Union.

Information within the year books varies from year to year but may include: general regulations and standing orders governing the union; committees serving the Union and Out-Relief Unions; lists of elected Guardians and other officers including length of service; committees; lists of parishes within the Union; and workhouse dietaries.

Includes approved and draft minutes

Documents relating to various financial and business matters of the York Penitentiray Society Ladies Committee.

Financial record of money received and paid out by the Treasurer on behalf of the Guardians of the Flaxton Out-Relief Union.

Note, one draft volume includes figures for both Flaxton and Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Unions

Comprises returns of pauper lunatics. The returns include personal details of patients.

Summary account ledgers kept by the Treasurer of the Poor Law Union. Includes accounts of payments received, and invoices and salaries paid.

Account ledgers kept by the Treasurer of the York Out-Relief Union Union. Includes payments received, and invoices and salaries paid.

Financial record of money received and paid out by the Treasurer on behalf of the Guardians of the York Out-Relief Union.

Correspondence received by Frederick Adolphus Camidge, most likely in his role as Sheriff of York.

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Comprises records relating to Hope Street, Albert Street, Richard Street, George Street, and Long Close Lane.
Includes house inspection records; particulars of occupiers (including occupation, income, and rent); lists of tenants and possible tenants for Tang Hall Estate; Detailed Statement of Hope Street Area Improvement Scheme (1924); three house inspection notebooks; agenda and minutes from the Health (Unhealthy Areas Subcommittee) Committee; correspondence, lists of owners and statistical information.

Comprises duplicate notices served to owners of properties signalling the Council's intention to take possession of properties.

Details of the registration of the boats 'Evelyn' and 'Beatrice.'

At present this collection comprises one job file regarding work carried out.

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Includes notes relating to the history of Belgium, and newspaper cuttings regarding Belgian neutrality.

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At present this collection comprises one job file regarding work carried out.

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Incoming correspondence from the Ministry of Health to the Clerk of the York Poor Law Union

Includes circular; lists of officers informed and availing themselves of the act; superannuation registers; certificates of service; nurses superannuation records; Registrars' declaration of fees, replies of offices and certificates of superannuated officers.

At present this collection comprises one job file regarding work carried out.

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Comprises records relating to Hope Street, Albert Street and Long Close Lane.
Includes correspondence; lists of properties, owners, and required improvements; lists of premises stating numbers of occupants and occupations; plans of individual houses; and lists of removals and rehousing.

Includes copies of Canal Boat Acts, reports into the usage of British Waterways, Royal Commission reports and papers relating to companies who passed through Naburn Lock.

Full application and report and transitional payments books recording details of individuals applying to the York Public Assistance Committee for relief.

Includes name of applicant; address; cause of application; and amount granted. For some applicants, age and number of children are also recorded.

At present this collection comprises one job file regarding work carried out.

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At present this collection comprises one job file regarding work carried out.

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Newspaper cuttings relating primarily to the York Poor Law Union.

Includes newspaper cuttings and notes relating to Africa and its history.

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Includes newspaper cuttings, book extracts and handwritten notes.

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Includes newspaper cuttings and handwritten notes relating to Turkey.

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At present this collection comprises one job file regarding work carried out.

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Comprises general correspondence sent by the Clerk of the York Poor Law Union, and, from 1930, the Public Assistance Officer of the Public Assistance Committee.

The correspondence concerns the general administration and application of the New Poor Law by the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Committee. Included in this correspondence are letters concerning individuals who applied for, or were receiving relief.

The letters are handwritten up to 1903, and typed from 1903 onwards.

At present this collection comprises one job file regarding works.

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Comprises records concerning the opening of the asylum; governance; staffing; and buildings.

Includes newspaper cuttings and lecture notes relating to Austria and Hungary.

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Accounts kept by the Relieving officer of the York Poor Law Union (prior to 1894) and the York Out-Relief Union (post 1894) and the Public Assistance Committee (post 1930).

Records weekly sums of money received by the Relieving Officer from the Treasurer of the Poor Law Union, and total amounts of relief charged to each parish or ward.

Summary acccounts for each financial quarter are recorded in the back of each volume. Only records names of inidividuals in relation to fees incurred for examinations to determine settlement status.

Includes records for the rural and city districts 1862-1897 and records for the city district only post 1897. See PLU/3/5/2-4 for records of the rural district post 1897 .

Printed sections of the Poor Law Act, 1930 relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority

Includes descriptions of each job done, names of staff carrying it out, National Insurance contributions and total wages paid.

Includes newspaper cuttings and notes relating to Australia and New Zealand, in particular cuttings regarding migration to Australia and scholarship schemes.

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Includes newspaper cuttings relating to the Greek monarchy.

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