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Letters from government offices (except Miscellaneous) relating to the despatches...
Catalogue reference: CO 137/718
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This record is about the Letters from government offices (except Miscellaneous) relating to the despatches... dating from 1916 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 137/718
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1916
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Description (What the record is about)
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Letters from government offices (except Miscellaneous) relating to the despatches sent from the governor in 1916. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:
- Admiralty (telegraphic communication with Nassau and Belize; blacklisting of Atlantic Fruit Company and steamers; Naval wireless/telegraphic station commercial work with Nassau Island; German subjects on United Fruit Company ships; transmission of circular telegrams to West Indies);
- Crown Agents (exchange rates between Jamaica & UK; advances from Imperial Treasury; pension of Mr H Smith; foreman boilermaker & locomotive running inspector for Railway; Turks, overpriced stamps);
- Foreign Office (embargo on Jamaican logwood; hides and tanning material for USA; logwood; treatment of R Hain; Nicaraguan Turtle Fishery; detention of telegram from Danish Valkyrien; reported arrest of Mr & Mrs Hermann; cargo on German Schwarzburg; H Nelson's complaint against Honduras government; baggage seizure Senior A Manotas; German news telegrams to San Juan; imprisonment of E Moss at Vera Cruz; report on prisoners of war at Jamaica; patent rights for C Schon & P O Pedersen; T Vilemenay, prospective consul general for Haiti; liquidation enemy firms; alleged murder of Jamaican by Panama Police; United Dyewood Company; detention of letter by French military authorities; Jamaicans detained at Guayaquil; alleged murder of West Indian in Colon jail; shipment of rum to Denmark; death of W Clenan, Guatemala; expenses concerning trial of Jamaican seaman, Alexandria; German suspect Mose or Morris Levy or Levi);
- Home Office (post mortem in UK; Universal Mail Order Institute);
- Board of Trade (logwood; schooners Expert & C B Heath); light on Morant Cays; logwood extract; fustic logs for France; logwood & fustic; Jamaican munitions workers; case of R Betty; freight requirements; blacklisting Atlantic Fruit Company ships; bananas import; banana trade; transfer to foreign flags of ships built in Caymans);
- Treasury (gold shipment to NY [New York]; British currency notes; rating of government property; Kingston Loan Board; War contributions; retirement & salary of Canon MacDermot);
- War Office (local investments in Imperial Loans; proposed local loan; Cayman contribution to Imperial Government; logwood for Verdala; Lieutenant E Ottley; transfer of prisoners of war to Canada; case of Indians Battan Singh and Jagitt Singh).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- 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/C979250/
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CO 137
Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence
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