Collection GB 0074 CLC/033 - BISHOPSGATE WARD RATEPAYERS ASSOCIATION

3 production units.

GB 0074 CLC/033 1859-1874 Collection 3 production units. Bishopsgate Ward Ratepayers Association

Founded in 1857 as the St Botolph Bishopsgate Ratepayers' Association; the name changed in 1860-2. The objects of the association were "To correct abuses ... in the local government of the ward ... to watch over the expenditure and proceedings of the same ... to diffuse ward and parochial information ... and to carry out the principles of a mutual improvement society".

The City of London was divided into wards for the purpose of government as early as Norman times. The wards had responsibility to keep the peace, supervise trade and oversee sanitation, and each ward has the right to elect an Alderman and Commoners to sit in the Court of Common Council.

They were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1984 and were catalogued in the same year by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Records of the Bishopsgate Ward Ratepayers Association, comprising: minute books, 1862-74 (Ms 21144); and rough minute book, 1859-62 (Ms 21145).

Minute books in chronological order.

Available for general access.

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

For records of Bishopsgate Ward see CLC/W/GC; and for the Ward social club see CLC/032.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

June to August 2010. Political corruption Tax assessment Organizations Associations Societies Mutual improvement societies Finance Fiscal policy Taxation Local taxation Government Public administration Local government Local government wards Groups Campaign groups Political behaviour Political sociology Interest groups Pressure groups Bishopsgate Ward Ratepayers Association City of London , Bishopsgate Ward Bishopsgate London England UK Western Europe Europe City of London

They were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1984 and were catalogued in the same year by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Records of the Bishopsgate Ward Ratepayers Association, comprising: minute books, 1862-74 (Ms 21144); and rough minute book, 1859-62 (Ms 21145).

Minute books in chronological order.

Available for general access.

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

• anglais

• latin

English

For records of Bishopsgate Ward see CLC/W/GC; and for the Ward social club see CLC/032.

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais