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(See also CO 321/7/48)...
Catalogue reference: CO 321/7/51
Date: 1875 Dec 11
(See also CO 321/7/48) John Pope Hennessy, Governor in Chief Windward Islands, St Vincent No. 85. Folios 747-748.
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The Contract [master and servant] Act of 1840: reports his intention to introduce...
Catalogue reference: CO 321/43/42
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This record is about the The Contract [master and servant] Act of 1840: reports his intention to introduce... dating from 1881 Mar 29 in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 321/43/42
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- 1881 Mar 29
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The Contract [master and servant] Act of 1840: reports his intention to introduce a bill to amend the act during the next session. He comments that the act was passed 'apparently under the impression that a scarcity of labour would be one of the results of emancipation. Whatever may have happened in the other West Indian Islands, no such result has occurred here'. [See also CO 321/43/14].
William Robinson, Governor in Chief Windward Islands, unnumbered confidential despatch, folios 534-540
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- 6577/1881
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Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence
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