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Acting Administrator asks opinion of Governor relating to subject of a number of...

Catalogue reference: CO 101/129/32

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CO 101/129/32
Date
1869 July 22
Description

Acting Administrator asks opinion of Governor relating to subject of a number of prisoners instead of being transported, due to recommendations of the Chief Justice, confined in jail for period of time over the three years legally allowed; Rawson asks for Colonial Office instructions; various enclosures including copies of relevant Acts and a table showing the details of people affected by Chief Justice's decision including date, names, offences, original sentences and commuted sentence, which include prison sentences between seven and twenty years. Andrew Munro, Acting Administrator of Grenada, forwarded by Rawson William Rawson, Governor of the Windward Islands, Grenada No. 578, Folios 133 - 178.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
9218/1869
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Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9143076/

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