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Catalogue reference: CO 137/111
Date: 1804 Jan-June
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Acknowledges despatch of 3 October approving his conduct and the arrangements made...
Catalogue reference: CO 137/194/1
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- 1834 Dec 9
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Acknowledges despatch of 3 October approving his conduct and the arrangements made connected with the abolition of slavery, and encloses letters from different parts of the island showing that the new system is working well and contradicting the evidence before the Assembly that the apprentices will not work for wages; no difficulty has been experienced in getting in the crops. Discusses the administration of justice under the apprenticeship scheme, and reports that the Assembly is displeased at his continued refusal to restore the power of the local magistrates to punish the apprentices. States that he has refused his assent to the Stamp Act because it imposed a heavy duty on commissions, which would effectively prevent the filling of all vacant offices by temporary appointment, and which it had been suggested was designed to keep 'young men of colour' out of them.
No 91, folios 1-18 Howe Peter Browne, Marquis of Sligo, governor of Jamaica
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- 481/1835
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- English
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