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First volume of appendices to the report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Treatment...
Catalogue reference: CO 111/381
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This record is about the First volume of appendices to the report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Treatment... dating from 1870-1871 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara, and.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 111/381
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1870-1871
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Description (What the record is about)
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First volume of appendices to the report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Treatment of Immigrants in British Guiana, 1870-1871. Includes the following:
- returns from the estates of Albion and Great Diamond, with comments thereon;
- statistics of indentured labourers;
- depositions taken before the Coroner's inquest on the body of G Seymore, an immigrant of the plantation Annandale, on 30 May 1868;
- the proceedings in the case of the plantation Enterprise;
- inquest on Noormaohomet of Goldstone Hall Plantation;
- statistics of the cost of immigration;
- statistics from the immigration fund accounts;
- statements of bounty paid to immigrants;
- the case of three immigrants indentured to the plantation Good Success;
- indenture of Vom-achat;
- indenture of Eng a Chao;
- returns of wages at Leonora, Tuscheude Orienden, De Willen, Enmore, Success and Albion estates;
- statistics of business in the Magistrates court;
- statistics of convictions;
- statistics of punishments;
- report on the hospital at Providence;
- statistics of import duties levied and raised;
- statistics of licenses to immigrants.
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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/C344803/
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