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Serjeants' Inn, Chancery Lane: Records
Catalogue reference: PRO 30/23
Date: 1611-1883
These were presented and consist of correspondence, account books, deeds, minutes of the Board of Green Cloth (records otherwise in LS) and...
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Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from 'offices' (Government...
Catalogue reference: CO 123/242
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This record is about the Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from 'offices' (Government... dating from 1902 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: British Honduras, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 123/242
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1902
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and from individuals on matters relating to British Honduras. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices:
- Crown Agents (memorial to Queen Victoria, railway scheme, supply of a dredger, sinking fund of the Belize improvement loan of 1885);
- Foreign Office (export of arms and ammunition, letters of request from foreign tribunals, surrender of military deserters, detention of Mr Lewis by Ycaiche 'Indians', nationality of the inhabitants of the Bay Islands, establishment of a bank in the colony by Mr Heustis);
- War Office (report on volunteers 1901, employment of a Drill Instructor);
- Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council (mail contract);
- Colonial Office (local supplies for Government departments);
- Belize Estate and Produce Company Limited (navigation of River Hondo).
- Reverend C W Arnold (railway to Petan Belize Pier);
- Harold B Arnold (railway scheme);
- J A B Beattie (railway scheme);
- P C Cork (development of the colony, steamer service);
- J M Currie (development of the colony);
- Thomas Fenwick and Company (exploration of the colony, development of the colony, recognition of services, complaint against the Governor, the Colonial Secretary and the Administration);
- Sir H Fowler (case of the Misses Oschwald);
- Nicholas A Frankena (certain land grants);
- W Llewellyn Lewis (laws relating to patents);
- A L M Mitchell (gratuity service in Constabulary, re-employment);
- R W Pickwood (applications for promotion and pension);
- R W Perks (proposal for the construction of a railway);
- Sir David Wilson (his pension case);
- H B Walcott (quarters set aside for the Treasurer of British Honduras).
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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/C3608364/
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Colonial Office and predecessors: British Honduras, Original Correspondence
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