Memo on Patriotic Fund

This material is held atThe Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth

Scope and Content

The memo reports on the Patriotic Fund and outlines that an Act of Parliament is required to administer the funds to "enter in the asylum other orphans than those resulting from the Russian war". The memo reports that pensions should be set aside for those employed by the commissioners in this business. The memo reports that the Act of Parliament should set at rest the question that the Commissioners acted illegally in "endowment of the Victoria asylum" and a new Commission should be formed. The memo is an enclosure to CS8/293. Date stamped, May 1866.

Arrangement

Arranged in accordance with ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, Second Edition, Ottawa 2000 and The Devonshire Collection Cataloguing Guidelines.

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