TRUSTEES OF H.M. GRANT FUND, PORTLAND, ARCHIVE.

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Reference number	D-319
Level of description	Fonds
Date	1839 - 1966
Extent	0.02244 cu.m. [1 Standard Box]
Description	Volume of copies of documents relating to customs, wastes, quarries on Portland 1650-1763 and Vestry minutes 1775-1839 (c.1839); warrants to dig stone (1842-1952); Appointment of Trustees (1870-1966); Finance (1842-1955); Petitions (1868-1874); Correspondence (1844-1892)
Language	English
Term	Trade and Industry Quarries and Pits Quarrying Religion Church of England Vestry Finance, Public Correspondence Portland

Volume containing copies of documents. Warrants for licences for inhabitants of Portland to dig stone and to grant them part of the tonnage dues payable, 1842 (with Privy Seal of Victoria), 1938 (signed by George VI), 1952 (signed by Elizabeth II).. Warrants for appointments of Trustees of H.M. Grant Fund, 1870 (copy) with letter, 1932 (signed by George V), 1946 (signed by George VI), 1963 and 1966 (signed by Elizabeth II).. Accounts of stone tonnage dues and disbursements.. Bank books and cheque stubs.. Solicitor's bills.. Bills. (Interesting billhead of Pearce and Slater, iron and brass founders, Portland).. Statement of Trustees of H.M. Grant Fund to the inhabitants of Portland.. Petitions. Correspondence concerning Fund and Church of England and Wesleyan Schools.. Correspondence about Fund's contribution towards church expenses.. Correspondence concerning administration of Fund, with bond of Benjamin White as Collector.. Correspondence about contributions towards gas lighting, Dorset County Hospital, Portland Literary Institution etc, with requests for help from various poor persons.. Correspondence about inhabitants of Portland requesting help in order to emigrate.. Correspondence about need for better drainage on Portland.. Letters about expenses of enlarging burial ground.. Letter from Office of Woods.