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Correspondence from Crown Agents and emigration agents on matters relating to Trinidad....
Catalogue reference: CO 295/478
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This record is about the Correspondence from Crown Agents and emigration agents on matters relating to Trinidad.... dating from 1912 in the series Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 295/478
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1912
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence from Crown Agents and emigration agents on matters relating to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:
- Crown Agents (Head Female Attendant for the Saint Ann's Asylum, oil prospecting licence, lease to British and Foreign General Securities and Investment Trust Limited, wireless telegraph station at Port of Spain, loan, post of Assistant Emigration Agent, survey of the Guaracara-Cipero Junction Line, oil prospecting in the region of Oropouche Lagoon, lease to the Trinidad Oilfields Limited, oil concession in the district of Mayaro, conveyance of Indian migrants in joint ships, coastal service, Electrical Inspecting Officer, draft memorandum relating to pipe lines, proposed pipe lines agreement, United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate, Cipero tramways and Jordan Hill branch, oil mining agreement, oil mining lease held by General Petroleum Properties, agreement for licences, Central Mining and Investment Corporation Limited, Blue Book Report for 1911-12, uniform for Sub-Inspectors of Police);
- Emigration Agents (leave of absence and application for an Assistant, cost of recruiting, Indian indentured labour, capitation grant, pension to the Assistant Emigration Agent Mr Bolton, report of the Protector of Emigrants for 1911, Accounts of the Agency for 1911-12).
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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/C987926/
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CO 295
Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence
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