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Correspondence from various government departments (offices), organisations, and...
Catalogue reference: CO 321/18
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This record is about the Correspondence from various government departments (offices), organisations, and... dating from 1877 in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 321/18
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1877
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence from various government departments (offices), organisations, and individuals, most of which relates to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 321/15, CO 321/16 and CO 321/17.
Offices:
- Admiralty (contagious diseases act);
- Crown Agents (St Lucia civil code; St Lucia Central Sugar Factory);
- Board of Trade (merchant ship Weardale; legality of dues on deck cargoes);
- Law Officers (Central Sugar Factory; consititutional questions);
- Foreign Office (alleged frauds by Mr Eick of German brig Rover);
- War Office (Major General Farren's seat at Legislative Council);
- Colonial Office (post of police magistrate, Calliagua, offered to J H Harwood; position of officer commanding troops in Barbados in Executive and Legislative Councils; reform of Barbados constitution);
- Aborigines Protection Society (case of Thomas Daniel); West India & Panama Telegraph Company (arrears of subsidy).
Individuals:
- Messrs Daniel & Company (Barbados disturbances);
- Henry V Fitzgerald (applying for post at Tobago);
- John Pope Hennessy (claim for half salary due to him as governor of Barbados and of Hong Kong; closure of Town Hall Gaol, Barbados; response to allegations of false statements in his speech at Cork; statements in House of Commons regarding his official work);
- Thomas Daniel Hill (allegations of false statements in John Pope Hennessy's speech at Cork);
- Hargrove & Co (Barbados Railway Extension Bill; date of meeting of legislature);
- Joseph A Haynes (necessity for early meeting of Barbados legislature);
- M F Ommanney (cultivation of crown lands by Central Sugar Factory);
- Sir R W Rawson, former governor (services of Dr Allen in inspecting the Lunatic Asylum);
- H R Semper (administrative and local reform in Barbados);
- George C Strahan, governor, on leave in London (suspension of J R Gooding; procedure in issuring writs for election of new Assembly; power of Executive Council to discharge duties vested in governor and Council);
- P J Hamilton Williams (application for medical appointment in Grenada).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2975483/
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CO 321
Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence
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