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Catalogue reference: CO 137/111
Date: 1804 Jan-June
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Prison Farm and Agricultural Experiment Station: Encloses message sent by Sir A W...
Catalogue reference: CO 137/618/68
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- CO 137/618/68
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1901 Apr 04
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Prison Farm and Agricultural Experiment Station: Encloses message sent by Sir A W L Hemming to the Legislative Council setting out his proposition for an Agricultural Experiment Station to be built alongside the St Catherine District Prison so that it may be worked with prison labour; also encloses a report of the subsequent Legislative Council debate reported in The Daily Gleaner.
No 180, folios 530-540.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- 13576/1901
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11973306/
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Despatches from Governor Sir A W L Hemming. Described at item level
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