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Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and...
Catalogue reference: CO 321/229
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This record is about the Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and... dating from 1905 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 321/229
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1905
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Description (What the record is about)
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Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 321/225, CO 321/226, CO 321/227, and CO 321/228. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:
Offices:
- Admiralty (storage of patent fuel, St Lucia; defence, St Lucia);
- Crown Agents (dredger, St Lucia; local purchase of supplies, St Lucia; Home Fund, St Vincent);
- Foreign Office (C J Tarring pension, Grenada; Venezuelan assistance - transport Zamora to St Vincent sloop Valkyrie);
- Home Office (volatile petroleum, Grenada; naturalization ordinance 1905, St Vincent);
- Treasury (estate of Eleanor Ann Jackson, Grenada; estimates, 1905-1906 and 1906-1907, St Vincent; grants to Misses Wells, Grenada; advances to Georgetown and Chateaubelair, St Vincent; Sir G Melville - pension, St Lucia; C J Tarring - pension, Grenada);
- War Office (War Department lands, St Lucia; Executive Council - senior military officer as member, St Lucia; withdrawal of Royal Garrison Artillery, St Lucia; War Department property, St Lucia);
- Royal Irish Constabulary (staff sergeant of police, St Lucia);
- Colonial Nursing Association (nurse, St Vincent);
- Local Government Board (quarantine bill, Grenada);
- Colonial Office (Sir George Melville retirement, St Lucia);
- West India Committee (land acquisition ordinance, St Lucia; union of Grenada and St Vincent);
- Inland Revenue (income tax evasion, St Vincent; supervisor of inland revenue and supervision of excise, Windwards, Grenada);
- Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (rebate of harbour and import dues, St Lucia);
- Post Office (ship letter mail, St Lucia);
- Board of Agriculture (contagious diseases ordinance, Grenada);
Individuals:
- F E Bundy (termination of his appointment, St Lucia);
- W J Calder (his case, St Vincent);
- J C Curtis (cancellation of appointment as medical officer, St Lucia);
- J E Cooney (sale of certain land, St Vincent);
- John R Crawford (charges against him);
- J W Fox (appointment - medical officer, St Vincent);
- Mrs Anna Galgery (gratuity, St Vincent);
- Joseph Alexander Lestrade (charges against him, St Lucia);
- Sir P Manson (W J Calder, St Vincent; ankylostomiasis, Grenada; venereal diseases, St Lucia);
- W H Neil (appointment, medical officer, St Vincent);
- P M C Sheriff (index of laws, St Vincent, Grenada);
- C J Tarving (retirement, Grenada);
- Archdeacon E A Turpin (Legislative Council, St Vincent).
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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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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2975694/
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CO 321
Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence
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