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Labourers for Ecuador per USS Catania. States that the Catania has been chartered...
Catalogue reference: CO 28/255/5
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This record is about the Labourers for Ecuador per USS Catania. States that the Catania has been chartered... dating from 1901 July 7 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 28/255/5
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1901 July 7
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Labourers for Ecuador per USS Catania. States that the Catania has been chartered by the company MacDonald for the purpose of conveying a supply of labourers for Ecuador. States also that none of the labourers have been collected by Emigration Agents as orders prohibiting emigration to Ecuador issued on receipt of telegram from Secretary of State of 23 May was still in force.
Unnumbered telegram, folios 24-27
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- 23376/1901
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9504072/
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CO 28
Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence
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