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Correspondence received from Government offices [departments] on subjects concerning...
Catalogue reference: CO 295/487
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This record is about the Correspondence received from Government offices [departments] on subjects concerning... dating from 1913 in the series Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 295/487
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1913
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence received from Government offices [departments] on subjects concerning Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:
- Crown Agents (Central Mining and Investment Corporation, Trinidad Oilfields Limited, oil licence for Oropouche Lagoon, United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate pipe lines, visit of Mr J Cadman to Canada, $1000 currency notes, Anglo-Scottish Investment Corporation, Model Oil Prospecting Licence and Lease, Licence for Trinidad Leaseholders, Trinidad Central Oilfields Limited, resignation of Mr J Hill engine driver, Port of Spain Station, loan legislation, oil agreement and Sir W Ingram);
- Council (extension of Order in Council of 26 October 1896 to the colony);
- Foreign Office (claims against Venezuela, ex-President Castro, Venezuelan surtax, surrender of smugglers, smuggling affray with Venezuelan coastguard steamer, Soldiers Rock incident, claim against Venezuela, rising in Venezuela, situation in Venezuela).
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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/C987935/
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CO 295
Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence
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