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The Forest Conservation and Watercourses (Protection) Bill: transmits final draft...
Catalogue reference: CO 96/358/22
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This record is about the The Forest Conservation and Watercourses (Protection) Bill: transmits final draft... dating from 1900 Mar 12 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Gold Coast, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 96/358/22
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1900 Mar 12
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Description (What the record is about)
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The Forest Conservation and Watercourses (Protection) Bill: transmits final draft for approval; explains certain provisions and amendments that have been suggested; transmits 6 copies of the Bill and 6 copies of the Regulations [not in item]; states that the principle provision is the issue of licences for extracting timber, rubber and Kola-nuts; critical of the 'class of middlemen-brokers' that has 'sprung up in this Colony' and their increasing dominance of the rubber industry; blames these rubber brokers for causing trouble in Assikasso.
Sir Frederick Hodgson, Governor.
No 108, folios 361-368.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- 10405/1900
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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