Monthly summaries of payments made in respect of bills of exchange, advances on goods, hypothecated goods, prepared for the purpose of transfer to the main books of account. There are no details of individual payments.
Memoranda for journal entries and abstracts of transfers
Scope & Content:
Abstracts of transfers (or Journal Entry Registers): Up to early 1940, the abstract records the page number in the journal in addition to the heads of account concerned [see IOR/L/AG/1/5]. Thereafter the heads of account only are given, but the month provides the method of finding the correspondi...
Ways and Means and Estimates of Sterling Requirements
Scope & Content:
Books of statistics assembled for the purpose of compiling estimates of expenditure in England under various headings. Includes daily estimates of the cash position of the Secretary of State's account at the Bank of England.