Records of Commissions

Records of commissions relating to investigations and negotiations on a variety of issues.

Claims commissions:

• American Claims Commission, FO 304
• British and American Claims Commission, FO 305
• British and Brazilian Claims Commission, FO 306
• British and Buenos Airean Claims Commission, FO 307
• British and Portuguese Claims Commission, FO 309
• British and Venezuelan Claims Commission, FO 310
• Spanish Claims Commissions, FO 316

Slave trade commissions:

• London Slave Trade Commission, FO 308
• Cape Town Slave Trade Commission, FO 312
• Havana Slave Trade Commission, FO 313
• Jamaica Slave Trade Commission, FO 314
• Sierra Leone Slave Trade Commission, FO 315

Commissions dealing with post First World War issues:

• Reparation Commission, FO 801
• International Plebiscite Commission in Schleswig, FO 852
• Inter-Allied Administrative and Plebiscite Commission in Upper Silesia, FO 890
• Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission, FO 894
• Inter Allied Plebiscite Commission (Peck Commission), FO 895
• Inter Allied Commission of Control in Austria, FO 896

Other commissions:

• American Fisheries Commission, FO 301
• American North-West Boundary Commission, FO 302
• American Treaty of Ghent Commission, FO 303
• Paris Exhibition Commission, FO 316
• Miscellaneous commissions, FO 317
• British and Mexican Mixed Commission, FO 318 and FO 319
• Albania International Commission of Control (British Delegation), FO 320
• Eastern Roumelian Commission, FO 901
• Argentine-Chile Frontier Case, Court of Arbitration, FO 928
• European Advisory Commission, FO 1079
• Commissioner-general for the UK in South East Asia and his successor, the UK commissioner for Singapore and South East Asia, FO 1091

Topics

International

Trade and commerce

Asia

Treaties and alliances

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Conflict

Slavery

Fishing

Americas

Operations, battles and campaigns

Africa

From time to time commissioners were appointed to conduct bilateral or multilateral negotiations on matters of a technical or administrative nature, often extending over a considerable period of time. They dealt with such matters as boundaries, claims, prizes and, in the nineteenth century, the suppression of the slave trade. A number of commissions were set up after the First World War in particular to administrate the plebiscites held as a result of the terms of the Versailles Treaty.