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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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Reference
CO 111/381
Date
1870-1871
Description

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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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
International
Litigation
Labour
Trade and commerce
Migration
Pay and pensions
Americas
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C344803/

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