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Catalogue reference: IND 1/10587
Transferred to CO 326/321
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Payment of quit rents by persons holding Crown land: forwards letter from William...
Catalogue reference: CO 321/3/2
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This record is about the Payment of quit rents by persons holding Crown land: forwards letter from William... dating from 1874 Feb 3 in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 321/3/2
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1874 Feb 3
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Description (What the record is about)
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Payment of quit rents by persons holding Crown land: forwards letter from William Hepburn Rennie, lieutenant governor of St Vincent, detailing discussions on the matter held between 1790 and 1809, and recommending that the idea of enforcing quit rents on existing titles should be abandoned in favour of a new land tax. Encloses a copy of a petition on the subject considered by the St Vincent Legislative Council on 11 April 1788 and requests a copy of Sir Charles Brisbane's despatch to Lord Castlereagh, No. 40 of 1809.
Rawson William Rawson, Governor of Windward Islands, St Vincent No. 3. Folios 7-21.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- 2303/1874
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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CO 321
Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence
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