Britain Is To Have New Domesday Book
, ' LONDON, Oct. 2, Somerset House, wliicli aceommodates most of the records of the Board of 'Tnland Revenue, will shortly be called on to find room for another large Government Department, set up to undertake the complete revaluation of all property in the United Kingdom. 1 This has become necessary owing to the fact that the Local Government « Aet, 1948, abolishes the rating and j valuation departments of local bodies, . and replaees them with a central valuation department. The staffi of the ' new department is expected to numb.er [ several thousands, many of whom? will I be former valuation employees of local bodies. When the new valuation lists are completed it will be the. tirst time since the preparation of Domesday Book by William the Conquerer that a complete valuation of all property in Britain has been carried out simultaneously.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 October 1949, Page 5
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