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Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the...
Catalogue reference: CO 295/349
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This record is about the Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the... dating from 1893 in the series Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad 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 295/349
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1893
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Description (What the record is about)
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Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/343 - CO 295/348. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:
- House of Lords (report of the Judicial Enquiry Commission);
- House of Commons (charges against the chief justice);
- Admiralty (Vice-Admiralty Court charges);
- Crown Agents (encroachments on Pitch Lake, fitting of steamers to carry guns, asphalt shipments from Mon Repos lands, Pitch Lake case, requisition of ammunition, proposed railway and harbour, Chaguaramas Bay, pension of L G Hay, governor's salary, water supply and sanitation, cargo landing arrangements);
- Board of Trade (Pilots Ordinance);
- Treasury (retired allowance of M Williams);
- Foreign Office (exportation of arms to Ecuador, fugitive criminals from French Guiana, arrest of General Felix Montecatini on a Venezuelan ship);
- Home Office (warrant for the arrest of 'fugitive offender' Arthur Clarke Kellman Lewsam);
- War Office (transfer of St James' barracks, governor's aide de camp);
- Civil Service Commission (examination for clerkships);
- Lartigue Railway Construction Company (railway construction);
- British and West Indian Alliance (complaint of Lartigue Railway Construction Company, winding of Anglican Cathedral clock);
- Royal Mail Service Packet Company (Port of Spain harbour);
- West India Committee (Chaguaramas scheme, Indian immigration, rising of 'bad class feeling', expenditure: defence forces, 'paupers', medical department);
- Judicial Enquiry Commission (documents related to the enquiry);
- Colonial Company (mal-administration of justice);
- Colonial Office (report in the Port of Spain Gazette stating that Stipendiary Magistrate Fraser had sentenced Thomas Prince alias Fox to hard labour and flogging for stealing fowls from two 'coolies' on the Hindostani estate);
- Institute of Chemistry (examination of H Tate);
- Royal College of Physicians (examination of Dr Lota);
- Probate Registry (Colonial Probates Act1892)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C987797/
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CO 295
Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence
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