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Auction: 9027 - Bonds & Shares of the World
Lot: 344

A group of 7 Exchequer Cheque (Check) Receipts, 1826/27, in the name of Edward Bates, being conscience monies received via the Board of Taxes, black printing, on vellum, a little dusty but good very fine, spiked at top left. Otherwise known as a paper tally these were specified by an Act of Parliament of 1783 as a replacement for the archaic wooden tally, but to take effect only from the death of the tally cutter, which was in 1826. In 1828 a Parliamentary Audit Commission was appalled that the Exchequer had designed the new receipt retaining the obsolete Exchequer Latin and numerical systems, and its report led indirectly to the thought that rather than try to reform the Receipt of the Exchequer, it would be easier to abolish it, which occured in 1833. Edward Bates was secretary of the Board of Taxes. Estimate £ 100

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