Memorial signed by 15 planters detailing grievances concerning taxation; the current...

Memorial signed by 15 planters detailing grievances concerning taxation; the current low price of sugar; the difficulty of procuring labour given the 'fickleness' and increasing independence of 'Negro' labourers and the expense of importing Indian workers; the government policy of selling small lots of Crown mountain land which will offer 'the black people' an encouragement to further withdraw their labour from the estates as well as diverting supplies; the requirement that planters contribute to the medical treatment of children and old people who are not economically active; the export duty on sugar; and the imposition of house tax on the houses of agricultural labourers which they claim will lead to overcrowding. With the comments of Edward Laborde, officer administering the government of St Vincent.

Rawson William Rawson, Governor of Windward Islands, St Vincent No. 38. Folios 154-174.