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Offices: letters from the Admiralty, Crown Agents, Privy Council and Foreign Office...

Catalogue reference: CO 137/763

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This record is about the Offices: letters from the Admiralty, Crown Agents, Privy Council and Foreign Office... dating from 1922 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
CO 137/763
Date
1922
Description

Offices: letters from the Admiralty, Crown Agents, Privy Council and Foreign Office on matters relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

  • Admiralty (case of J Tucker, purchase of the Formosa, oil fuel installation, radio service, wireless telephone broadcasting station, disposal of telegraph stations, Sir Lewis Bayly's application for post of Governor, transfer of telegraph station to the Marconi company);
  • Crown Agents (freight charges on cotton, Treasury Bills and tenders, cement factory, L O'Donaghue, theodolites, A Wilson, appointment of Foreman Borer, C Raper, cement plant, shipping facilities, industrial alcohol, Miss H M McLeod, Frankfield railway extension, Turks Islands postage stamps, Sergeant J M O'Connor, case of Springer, motor spirit, estate of G Stiebel, A M Gold offer, supply of dynamite, resignation of stock in name of Administrator General, testing of cement, loss of a piece of serge, R F Nathan, new design for postage stamps, case of E F H Cox, child welfare stamps, P T Wilkie, child welfare schemes, loan, supply of neo-salvarsan, stock account in Administrator General's name, transportation development, railway expert, railway switches, supply of pareganic);
  • Privy Council (case of Gleaner company, case of F C Tomlinson);
  • Foreign Office (repatriation of West Indians from Cuba, case of Reverend E Seiler-Salmon, destitute West Indians in Cuba, relief of US seamen, case of Preston versus Frederick, case of Charles Laurence, case of Thomas Leo, J M Thimote and his naturalisation, treatment of Jamaicans by Captain of USS Middleberry, legality of religious marriages, destitute British West Indians in New York, American duty on salt, compensation to Mrs L Leo, landing charges, British Consulate at La Ceiba, Mexican Consul at Kingston, cost of consulate at Santiago, Greek Consul at Kingston, estate of John Hoffman, Foreign Office mail bags for Consul, claim of C B Selver, release of C L Mitchell from Spanish Foreign Legion, relief to C Laurence, clearance of liquor vessels, immigration of Chinese, W S Connolly's indebtedness, ill-treatment of A Duhaney, arrest of two West Indian seamen, export duty, French customs duty on honey, upkeep of consulate at Santiago).

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
International
Manufacturing
Railways
Trade and commerce
Asia
Caribbean
Oil and gas
Population
Food and drink
Nationality
Navy
Communications
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C979295/

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