Folios 388-406. To: Home Secretary. From: N Jowett, Clerk to the Idle Local Board, Idle, …
Description: Folios 388-406. To: Home Secretary. From: N Jowett, Clerk to the Idle Local Board, Idle, [Yorkshire]. A letter; a bill detailing the Idle Local Board's payments to James Fox, a Surveyor, disallowed by the Idle Board's Auditor; a statement of facts concerning the Idle Board's accounts and appealing against disallowances and surcharges made on them in their audit; two printed petitions made to the House of Commons by the Idle Local Board, one in opposition to the Bradford Waterworks and Improvement Act, and one for 'dispensing with Standing Order 130, in the case of their [the Idle Board's] Petition against the [Bradford] Bill'; and an invoice made out to the Idle Local Board by J M Barret, Solicitor, for services rendered to the Board in opposing the Bradford Bill, which has been paid and subsequently marked as disallowed by the Idle Board's auditor. Jowett forwards the documents in pursuance of the Idle Board's appeal for the Home Secretary to remit surcharges made against the Board by William Ellis, the District Auditor, for payments he disallowed in his audit of the Board's accounts. The surcharges, split between the various members of the Board named by Ellis, who detailed in the appeal, total £435. £400 of this was expended in the Board's opposition to the Bradford Waterworks and Improvement Act, and the other £35, paid to Fox, was payment for his services in giving evidence to hearings in support of the Board's opposition. The Idle Local Board appeal against the disallowance of these payments and the surcharges thereto incurred, arguing that it was correct for the Idle Local Board to oppose the Bradford Act, as it contained clauses which would force the Idle District to accept the Bradford Corporation's monopoly of their water supply with no control or alternative but the Bradford Waterworks' prices. The also cite the similar opposition of other Local Boards affected by this Bill, and quote correspondence from the Local Government Act Office on the matter which approves of the Board mounting an opposition. The Board argue that the payments were legal, and request that the Home Secretary will remit the disallowances and surcharges. The invoices give details of what services the Board incurred such costs for, whilst the petitions detail specifically the Idle Board's opposition to the Bradford Bill.
Date: 19/07/1869
Last import: September 11, 2017