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Letters from various government offices (departments) which relate to the despatches...
Catalogue reference: CO 137/712
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This record is about the Letters from various government offices (departments) which relate to the despatches... dating from 1915 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 137/712
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Date (When the record was created)
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1915
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Description (What the record is about)
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Letters from various government offices (departments) which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in 1915. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:
- Admiralty (oil storage; Public Stores Law; wireless communications with British Honduras, Bahamas, Belize, Nassau; steamers United Fruit Co; early war measures; death of A Phipps, HMS Bristol);
- Crown Agents (May Pen railway bridge; items for wounded troops; costs, Hay v Olivier case; Turks and Caicos contributions to Red Cross and Belgian Relief Fund; D Jackson's pension; financial requirements of colony; enlistment of scholar McCullock);
- Council Office (dissolution of Legislative Council);
- Foreign Office (case of A Piepenbrink; Nicaraguan turtle fishery; detention of German medical officer, Spreewald, exchange of persons with Germany and Austria; conviction in Tres Hermanos gold mine riot cases; financial assistance, sugar estates; treatment of S von Bruhn; German prisoners of war; T Burrell's trial; Mr Durando's children; murder of Jamaican children, Mexico; detention of Greeks; Bill for Exclusion of Aliens; dyewood export; Mr Merewether's murder, Mexico; imprisonment of J A German, Nicaragua; German minister, Haiti; German bottled beer; J T Wille's murder, Ecuador; case of Hermann Koch; luggage seizure; Austro-Hungarian V Kursa; logwood export; tanning materials);
- Home Office (national status of F Farah; detention of habitual criminals);
- India Office (Indians publishing Chadi newspaper; Mr H Cousins; rum manufacture; venereal disease; war news for Indian immigrants);
- Board of Trade (life saving appliances on ships; wages, R Allen; sugar estates financial assistance; registry of shipping, Turks; custody of enemy property; logwood export; treatment of F Collin Campbell; repatriation of Reid; services of Eveleigh and Mordecai);
- Treasury (Turks Islands and Caymans war contributions; loan repayments; offer of E E Grimes; gold coin export to USA; refund of £10,000);
- War Office (cigarettes for troops; minesweeping service; treatment of prisoners of war; garrison; Jamaicans wishing to enlist; mobilisation of Kingston Infantry Volunteers; temporary commissions RAMC; disposal of mentally ill soldier; Militia (Amendment) Law, 1915; repatriation of Mrs Mortley).
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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/C979244/
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CO 137
Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence
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Letters from various government offices (departments) which relate to the despatches...
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