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Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and...
Catalogue reference: CO 321/238
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This record is about the Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and... dating from 1907 in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 321/238
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Date (When the record was created)
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1907
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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 321/234, CO 321/235, CO 321/236, and CO 321/237. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:
Offices:
- Admiralty (riots - HMS Indefatigable, St Lucia; situation, St Lucia; maintenance of order - visit of HMS Indefatigable, Windward Islands; situation in Grenada);
- Crown Agents (employment of RMS Solent, St Lucia; Castries harbour improvement, St Lucia);
- Foreign Office (claim against Venezuelan government, Grenada; case of sloop Lyric, Grenada);
- Board of Trade (merchant shipping legislation, Grenada);
- Treasury (draft estimates and estimates, 1907-1908, St Vincent);
- War Office (military properties, St Lucia);
- Colonial Office (governors travelling allowances, clerks, etc, St Lucia, Windward Islands, Leeward Islands; appointment of Walter Sidney Shaw as Chief Justice, St Vincent; Sea Island cotton industry, St Lucia);
- St Lucia Usines & Estates Company (riots - defence, St Lucia; compensation claim, St Lucia; property tax, St Lucia);
- Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (employment and services of RMS Solent during riots, St Lucia);
- Inland Revenue (supervisor of excise, Grenada);
- Berkshire Asylum (forwards letter from patient, Edward William Begrie);
- Colonial Nursing Association (nurse matron at Kingston Hospital, St Vincent);
- West India Committee (land property tax bill, St Lucia);
Individuals:
- Fred E Bundy (re-employment or certificate of service, St Lucia);
- W Burr (D F Porter's estates in Carib Country, St Vincent);
- Edward J Cameron (St Vincent: medical service; transfer; Chief Justice and Mr Anton; personal allowance; marriage law; administration of Windward Islands);
- J C Curtis (medical appointment, St Vincent);
- J Donoghue (St Vincent: surveyor; re-employment in West Indies);
- F C W Durrant (re-employment, St Lucia);
- J V Drake & Co (St Lucia: police protection in Dennery District; compensation);
- Gedge & Feeny (Grenadine Islands, Grenada);
- M Kerr (resignation, St Lucia);
- Sir P Manson (medical service, Grenada);
- Percy A Ongley (transfer, Grenada);
- C A O'Brien (appointment as magistrate or registrar, Grenada);
- P W Wilson (marriage law, St Vincent).
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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/C2975703/
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CO 321
Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence
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Within the series: CO 321
Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence
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Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and...
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