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Proposed levy of quit rents on land titles: further to despatches no. 63 of 20 November...

Catalogue reference: CO 321/3/6

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This record is about the Proposed levy of quit rents on land titles: further to despatches no. 63 of 20 November... dating from 1874 Mar 4 in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CO 321/3/6
Date
1874 Mar 4
Description

Proposed levy of quit rents on land titles: further to despatches no. 63 of 20 November 1873, no. 66 of 28 November 1873, and no. 3 of 3 February 1874 [CO 321/3/2] forwards a report from the acting colonial secretary of Tobago concluding that if the quit rents in Tobago were not wholly and permanently remitted in 1789 they have never been claimed since that date and are presumed to have no continuing legal existence.

Rawson William Rawson, Governor of Windward Islands, St Vincent No. 9. Folios 42-48.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
3473/1874
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9047782/

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CO 321

Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence

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Despatches: St. Vincent, Tobago. (Described at item level)

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