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Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) on...
Catalogue reference: CO 137/577
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This record is about the Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) on... dating from 1896 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 137/577
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1896
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) on matters relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:
- Admiralty (Graving Dock at Kingston, Cuban insurrection, water supply at Port Royal, Crown rights to foreshore);
- Crown Agents (Mr Finlaison's report on Constabulary pensions, improvement of communications at Kingston, appeal case of the West India Improvement Company versus Daubigny, Kingston Improvement Commission, Indian indentured emigration, investigation of cattle disease by the Veterinary Surgeon Professor W Williams, appointment of Mr A R Peaty as Assistant Engineer of the Kingston Improvement Works, appointment of C D Moffat as Medical Storekeeper, post of Mistress for the Infant School, investment on account of the Kingston Streets Redemption Fund);
- Emigration Agent at Calcutta (return passages for Indian migrants, accounts of the Agency for 1894-5 and 1895-6);
- Board of Trade (Foreign Enlistment Act, loss of the SS Golden Fleece, suggested amendment of the Marine Board Law);
- India Office (Cinchona seed, Marriage Law of Indian immigrants, Indian coolies for Colombia);
- Law Officers (Crown rights on foreshore of Kingston Harbour);
- Foreign Office (complaint of W Downes against the Colombian Government, French decree prohibiting the exportation of arms and ammunitions to Cuba, 'coloured' British subjects in Panama, Cuban insurrection and case of the SS Horsa, payment of J Bodden for Nicaraguan indemnity, case of the May Reed, death of Vicomte E B de Mayo, health of La Guayra and Puerto Cabello, Nicaraguan Mosquito Reserve, neutrality on the Cuban insurrection, Havana consular report on trade, capture by the Spanish gunboat Galicia of Howard Creighton, Haitian exiles, Spanish rule in Cuba, expenses of the Mosquito Chief, disturbances at Bluefields, estate of Iquacio Mustellir, date plants from Algeria, Indian indentured labourers for Colombia, case of the fugitive offender Alfred Pouyat);
- Home Office (case of the fugitive offender Henry Attride)
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- The National Archives, Kew
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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/C979109/
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