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Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from 'Offices' (Government...
Catalogue reference: CO 123/267
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This record is about the Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from 'Offices' (Government... dating from 1910 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: British Honduras, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 123/267
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Date (When the record was created)
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1910
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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:
- Foreign Office (case of ex-President of Honduras Señor Bonilla, Honduras new navigation laws, extradition of Isidoro V Perez, telegraphic communication with Mexico and convention, money order agreement with Mexico, navigation of Hondo River, visit of a Mexican gunboat to an unauthorised port, co-operation of British Honduras and Guatemalan Police, claim of J Chambers against Honduras, expedition against Honduras, complaint of the Master of SS Dordogne, repatriation of Mr and Mrs Muller to England);
- Home Office (use of firearms against escaping prisoners, expulsion of undesirable aliens);
- India Office (Sikhs for Police Force);
- Medical Advisers (medical report of C L Eyles);
- Board of Trade (wireless telegraphy, lighting of coast);
- War Office (documents of Sergeant P E Matthews and of non-commissioned officers generally, volunteer decoration and long service medal);
- Direct West India Cable Company Limited (wireless telegraphy);
- Seamen's Mission (assisted passage for J M Jarvis);
- Local Government Board (Quarantine Ordinance amendment);
- London Fire Brigade (Ordinance 19 of 1910);
- General Post Office (disposal of parcels sent to Guatemala, opening of telegraph lines to international service);
- Imperial Mercantile Service Guild (firing by soldiers at SS Dordogne at Utilla Island, complaint of Captain Blight of SS Dordogne).
- James Chambers (claim against the Honduras Government);
- Thomas and James Harrison (conveyance of Jarvis to Belize);
- Hicks, Arnold and Mozley Solicitors (development scheme of Mr J P Quinton, concession for the cultivation of rubber);
- David Hoskins (his leave);
- Herbert C Jeffreys (re-employment);
- Fred White Read (railway development and concession);
- F A Rurmals (complaint against the Honduranean authorities);
- H Rainier (Indian indentured labour for the colony);
- B Sigall (stock of obsolete unused stamps for sale by the Crown Agents);
- F E Starkey (land grant in Cayo District);
- R W Starkey (Belize railway, expedition against Honduras, conditions of affairs);
- B Travers (his pension, rate of salary);
- J S Watson (case of Mrs Mary Jane Franklin).
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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/C3608389/
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Colonial Office and predecessors: British Honduras, Original Correspondence
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