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Claim for loss of property #4105 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  4105 The Sheffield Smelting Company: Henry Wilson and John Wycliffe Wilson Gold and Silver Smelters and Refiners [Henry Wilson] Of Newlands near Mansfield; [John Wycliffe Wilson] Nottinghamshire, Sheffield  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Absolute   Water pipe and Globe in the River from whence the Engine is supplied with water, carried away entirely say £5      
    Time occupied in clearing out mud from the Yards Shops, Workshops, Counting Houses, Warehouses and underground flues, In cleaning Tools, Ingot Moulds Furnaces, Apparatus etc. etc. and in preparing for the resumption of Work 115 days at 20/ per week £19 3s 4d  
    Cartage of Mud out of Yard 6 days @ 7/6 £2 5s    
    Extra Coal burnt in drying Workshops Furnaces Flues and Wet Material (Gold and Silver sweepings mixed with mud sully 25 Tons at 8/6 £10 12s 6d  
    Extra material smelted viz 7 Tons Mud which was mixed with material containing Gold and Silver and which could not be recovered without smelting the whole at £8 per Ton £56      
    Condensed Lead Fumes containing Gold and Silver in underground flues rendered worthless by mixture with great excess of mud, Quantity and price estimated from average of former periods, 24 hundredweights 1 quarter 7 pounds at 28/ £34   9d  
    Furnace plates cracked, Two worth £20 each damaged say £10 each £20      
             
             
             
             
             
        £147 1s 7d  
  Certificate Granted
19 June 1865
Assessed by Assent at £147 1s 7d  

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