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Colonial Office: Concessions and Finance Committees
Catalogue reference: CO 948
What's it about?
CO 948
This series contains minutes of meetings of the Concessions and Finance Committees. The correspondence relating to concessions was printed as Colonial Office Prints. The Concessions Committee was originally known as the Concessions and Railways Committee.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 948
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Concessions and Finance Committees
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1907-1912
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains minutes of meetings of the Concessions and Finance Committees. The correspondence relating to concessions was printed as Colonial Office Prints. The Concessions Committee was originally known as the Concessions and Railways Committee.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Colonial Office, Concessions and Railways Committee, 1907-1910
- Colonial Office, Concessions Committee, 1910-1912
- Colonial Office, Finance Committee, 1907-1910
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 volume(s)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5137/
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