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Reports that the island is without any military or naval protection and explains...

Catalogue reference: CO 37/42/50

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CO 37/42/50
Date
1790 May 15
Description

Reports that the island is without any military or naval protection and explains that if Bermuda were be taken by an enemy it would effect Britain's trade in the West Indies. Also asks for the governments decisions concerning the granting of private commissions for privateering. Enclosures include:

  • extract of a letter from the Council and Assembly to Brickwood dated 12 August 1789,
  • address of the Bermudians at Turks Islands to Lord Dunmore - not answered,
  • a further address including Lord Dunmore's answer,
  • amount of fees taken on all vessels at Turks Islands,
  • copy of a minute of the Assembly respecting the introduction of a copper coin into the Island of Bermuda,
  • list of nine acts of Assembly requiring royal assent; includes acts concerning the value of foreign coins, prevention of parishes being burdened by the poor, apprenticeship of the poor, settling of intestate estates, debts of estates, regulation of House of Assembly elections and fixing of the qualifications of candidates, transfer from fee tail to fee simple for small holders, killing of a 'negroe [Negro] or other slave', issue of liquor licences, and regulation of retailing rum and other liquor.

John Brickwood, Public Agent for Bermuda, Folios 219-234

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