| Description | The Bills, Accounts etc. are the remnants of what have been a much larger series. They are made up of bills and accounts for items bought for the mint, such as metal parts, timber, scales, and so on. There is one small bundle of bills for each supplier, but this may not be the original arrangement, and they may have been extracted from much larger quarterly bundles. William D. Brown cross-referred many of the bills to the Cash Book and the Day Book.
The first bundle of Accounts (Jan.-Jul. 1834) appears to have been assembled by John Robinson, the rest by Joseph Westley. Some bills of Boulton, Watt, & Co. are among the regular series of bills, but several of them were also kept in a separate bundle, which, however, also contained two other bills; the explanation of this is unclear. The Accounts are numbered precisely in the order in which they were originally arranged.
The Cash Vouchers are vouchers for sums paid over, or received, by the Cashier, Charles James Chubb, on the Mint account. Each file was formerly a bundle, and the vouchers in each file were numbered by Chubb. The sequence of numbers in the first file, however, is not continuous, presumably because the missing numbers were given to vouchers for receipts and payments on other accounts. Many of the vouchers contain cross-references to the Mint Journal. |