| Description | Minute volumes indexed. The minutes are printed and signed by the committee Chairman. The minutes are in the appropriately titled minute volumes. The minutes contain a huge volume of information relating to the assessment and collection of the rates in the city of Birmingham. They include Treasurers Reports on rate collection in the city, the reports of the committee chairman on estimates of rate produce, applications for warrants of commitments for defaulters (including names and addresses of ratepayers, with dates and totals of rating and associated costs), proposals concerning rating authorities, amendments of valuations, and detailed departmental accounts and statements of income and expenditure. The minutes which cover the Second World War and its immediate aftermath (c1939 - 1950) include details of refunds of rates for property owners whose premises were requisitioned for the provision of air raid shelters and other civil defence infrastructure and reports of wartime hardship cases. |