Collection search - Leeds City Council Treasurer's Department. Distress Committee [textual record]

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Leeds City Council Treasurer's Department. Distress Committee [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1905-1915

Reference:

R17241-0-X-E, MG40-M62

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

98316

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Leeds City Council Treasurer's Department. Distress Committee
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Date(s):

1905-1915

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

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0.010 meter(s)

Language of material:

English

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Photocopies of Leeds City Council Treasurer's Department, Distress Committee Resolution Book, 1905-1912, 45 pages [pg. 30 missing] and Minutes of Distress Committee meeting, 2 March 1915, 3 pages. Includes resolutions dealing with applications for assistance to emigrate to Canada, the names and in some cases the professions of the applicants, marital status and number of children, and amounts awarded to each applicant. The Distress Committee was established under Unemployed Workmen's Act 1905 by the City Council to provide remedies for large scale unemployment between 1905 and the outbreak of the first World War. Photocopy, 48 pages.

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Leeds (England). City Council. Treasurer's Dept. Distress Committee

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General note:

"The original Minute book does not appear to have survived" (Harrison, Brett, letter dated 8 September 1987, of West Yorkshire Archive Service.
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Canada - Emigration and immigration, 1905-1915 Leeds (England), 1905-1915

Great Britain. Unemployed Workmen's Act, 1905-1912

Leeds City Council Treasurer's Department, Distress Committee Resolution Book, (Leeds, England), 1905-1912
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1987/0426

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MG40-M62
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