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Catalogue reference: CO 137/111
Date: 1804 Jan-June
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Maroons of Accompong Town: reports on their refusal to pay taxes and encloses copy...
Catalogue reference: CO 137/509/14
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This record is about the Maroons of Accompong Town: reports on their refusal to pay taxes and encloses copy... dating from 1883 Apr 17 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 137/509/14
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1883 Apr 17
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Description (What the record is about)
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Maroons of Accompong Town: reports on their refusal to pay taxes and encloses copy of a proclamation dated 16 April 1883 confirming that the Maroons 'never have been and are not now liable to perform military service, except such as might be required of any of Her Majesty's subjects within the Island; that the Government of the Island have not and do not pretend to have any special claim upon the services of the Maroons; and that the Maroons have been and still are entitled to all the rights, privileges and immunities of British subjects in as ample a manner as any other people in this Island without distinction of race or colour.'
No. 146, folios 106-128
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- 7832/1883
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9480940/
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Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence
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