| Description | The Whiston Township Poor Rate: Receipt and Payment Book.
Contains the Overseers' half-year accounts and the following loose inserts relating to the administration of the Overseers of the Poor: the Collector's Unpaid Statement forms for April 1927, showing the names of persons in arrears, the amounts of rates owed and the reasons they have not paid; payment request forms addressed to the Overseers of the Poor, Joseph Eccleston and Walter Evans, from James Hargreaves, the Treasurer of the Guardians of the Poor of the Prescot Union and Frank Geddes Capes, the Treasurer of Whiston Rural District Council (1926); small bundle of income tax receipts (c. 1926-1927); handwritten income tax calculations (1927); bundle of Income Tax payment request forms addressed to the Overseers of the Poor (dated December 1926, covering the period 1920-1926); bundle of payments receipts, covering salaries, services rendered and stationary (1926-1927). |