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Despatches from John Spooner, President of the Council of Barbados, and from Sir...
Catalogue reference: CO 28/79
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This record is about the Despatches from John Spooner, President of the Council of Barbados, and from Sir... dating from 1810 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 28/79
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1810
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Despatches from John Spooner, President of the Council of Barbados, and from Sir George Beckwith, Governor, together with correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and from individuals on matters relating to Barbados. Despatches are described at item level; other correspondence is not, and correspondents and subjects are as follows:
- Treasury (payment of salary of President Spooner's secretary [3 items], request for payment of a bounty on fish imported into Barbados);
- General Post Office (money owed by Mr Moore, former deputy Post Master [3 items], mails for Suriname, Demerara and Berbice will be forwarded once a month only);
- Committee on Public Expenditure (salary, fees and emoluments of Chief Clerk and Registrar of Barbados);
- M Lewis, on behalf of the executrix of the late Governor Ricketts (requests certain papers required by the West India Commissioners as vouchers for passing Ricketts' public accounts);
- Board of Trade (Barbados Act of June 1809 'laying a duty on all ships or vessels belonging to the subjects of any state in amity with His Majesty ...' may be left to its operation and does not need to be referred to the King in Council);
- Board of Customs (power of the Governor over officers of the Customs);
- George Hallam, Collector of Customs, Bridgetown (his current difficulty in complying with the requirement for annual reporting of Africans taken from slave ships)
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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CO 28
Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence
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