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Financial position: forwards proposed increase in customs dues and other fresh modes...

Catalogue reference: CO 137/579/37

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This record is about the Financial position: forwards proposed increase in customs dues and other fresh modes... dating from 1897 Jan 30 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CO 137/579/37
Date
1897 Jan 30
Description

Financial position: forwards proposed increase in customs dues and other fresh modes of taxation. States there will be a deficit for 1897-98 of about £75,000 and proposes indirect taxation to the extent of £80,000.

Unnumbered confidential despatch, folios 420-435.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
3687/1897
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13440345/

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CO 137

Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence

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Despatches from Sir Henry A Blake, Governor of Jamaica. Described at item level

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Financial position: forwards proposed increase in customs dues and other fresh modes...

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