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Reports that the bill for borrowing £10,000 from unexpended balances and for raising...

Catalogue reference: CO 321/44/15

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This record is about the Reports that the bill for borrowing £10,000 from unexpended balances and for raising... dating from 1881 July 27 in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CO 321/44/15
Date
1881 July 27
Description

Reports that the bill for borrowing £10,000 from unexpended balances and for raising a loan of an additional sum of £45,000 has passed through committee in the House of Assembly. Funds are to be spent on the new lunatic asylum, extension of Glendairy Prison, erection of Harbour Police Barracks, improvements in the public market and lazaretto, the construction of a reformatory and the establishment of a system of telegraph to replace the present 'cumbrous and inefficient' system of signalling. With printed copy of bill.

William Robinson, Governor in Chief Windward Islands, Barbados No. 121, folios 89-96

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
14367/1881
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9147820/

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Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence

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