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Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and...
Catalogue reference: CO 152/241
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This record is about the Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and... dating from 1898 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Leeward Islands, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 152/241
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Date (When the record was created)
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1898
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals (surnames A-D only) on matters relating to the Leeward Islands. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:
Offices:
- Officers of the Defence Force (St Kitts-Nevis: capitation grant);
- Taxpayers of the Virgin Gorda (Virgin Islands: petition on behalf of the Revenue Officer William Pickering);
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (St Kitts-Nevis: tobacco planting; Virgin Islands: cultural resources; Antigua: sugar cane experiments; Dominica: post of Agricultural Instructor at the Botanic Station and appointment of Mr Tannock; minutes relating to the Imperial Department of Agriculture, appointment of Mr Barber as Government Botanist at Madras; Montserrat: vanilla cultivation);
- Nottingham Manufacturing Company (St Kitts-Nevis: rules of the procedure in bankruptcy cases);
- Montserrat Company (Montserrat: riots, financial position, steam service);
- Barbuda Island Company (Antigua: lease of Barbuda, emigration from Barbados to Barbuda; Montserrat: Barbuda);
- Public Meeting, St Kitts (St Kitts: taxation);
- West India Committee (St Kitts: taxation);
- Inhabitants of St Kitts (St Kitts: taxation);
- Royal Irish Constabulary (Montserrat: position of Sergeant Major for Police and applications of Patrick Byrne and Thomas A Gray; St Kitts: position of Sergeant Major of Police and Volunteer Forces, passage for wife of Sergeant Major of Police);
- Howard Association [Howard League] (prison dietary);
- George M Newhall Engineering Company (Antigua: Central Sugar Factory);
- Inhabitants of Parish of St Mary (Antigua: Central Sugar Factory);
- Local Government Board (Virgin Islands: Infectious Diseases Ordinance);
- Colonial Office (financial position for the grants in aid).
Individuals:
- Messrs W Anderson and Company (St Kitts: advances to planters);
- James Douglas Adamson (St Kitts: sugar industry);
- C V Bellamy (Dominica: public works, leave, passages and salary);
- Dr W J Brauch (St Kitts: his behaviour in the Legislative Council, dietary of the Leper Asylum, scene in the Legislative Council, relations with the Administrator, resolution at the meeting of the Town Improvement Commissioners, delay in submitting the resolution and despatch from the Secretary of State);
- J Wilson Bain (Antigua: boring operations);
- Robert Dougall (Antigua: Barbuda Award 1894, outrages on live stocks in Barbuda);
- J B H Davson (Antigua: transfer to St Lucia and application for promotion).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2732722/
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CO 152
Colonial Office and predecessors: Leeward Islands, Original Correspondence
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Colonial Office and predecessors: Leeward Islands, Original Correspondence
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