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Records of Chartered Companies
Catalogue reference: Division within CO
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Division within CO
Records of chartered companies relating to colonial functions entrusted to companies by the colonial Office. Records of the British North Borneo Company are in CO 874
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Division within CO
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of Chartered Companies
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1865-1949
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of chartered companies relating to colonial functions entrusted to companies by the colonial Office. Records of the British North Borneo Company are in CO 874
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records of the West New Jersey Society see TS 12
For microfilm records of the Hudson Bay Company see BH 1
For records of the Dutch West India Company see CO 116
For the records of the Company of Royal Adventurers of England trading with Africa and successors see T 70
For records of the New Zealand Company see CO 208
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 series
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Asia
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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From time to time colonial functions which would normally be the concern of the Colonial Office and the local colonial government were entrusted to chartered companies, and the records of some of these companies are in the Public Record Office.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C459/
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