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Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations)...
Catalogue reference: CO 295/488
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This record is about the Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations)... 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 295/488
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Date (When the record was created)
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1913
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) on subjects concerning Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:
Offices:
- Home Office (frivolous appeals by prisoners, company registration, Trinidad Imperial Oilfields Limited, punishment of criminal lunatics);
- India Office (Supernumerary Medical Officer, pension of Mr Swan, Burmah Oil Company);
- Law Officers (Central Mining and Investment Corporation Oil Agreement);
- House of Commons (Wheel Tax Ordinance, military establishment, United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate, pipe line agreement);
- Board of Trade (awards for life-saving at sea, British Empire Trade Mark Association, wireless communication with Dutch Guiana);
- Treasury (issue of $1000 notes by the Government of Trinidad, coin reserve against note issue, destruction of oil in time of necessity).
Miscellaneous Offices:
- Colonial Office (memo West Indian Number 191 recovery of oil for the Navy, oil concession, Trinidad Leases Limited, New Colonial Company in liquidation, oil mining leases);
- Law Society (Solicitors' Ordinance);
- General Post Office (wireless receiver specification, postal regulations, wireless to Dutch Giuana, telegraph rates between Venezuela, British Giuana and Trinidad);
- Local Government Board (Tuberculosis Conference);
- Customs (application of Agnostura Bitter Company);
- Trinidad Oilfields Limited (oil lease);
- Strassenbau Gesellschaft Wayss MBH (monopoly in lake asphalt);
- Trinidad Oilfields Limited (modification of lease);
- London School of Tropical Medicine (tuition fees of Mr J F H Morgan);
- Colonial Nursing Association (Charge Nurse);
- Board of Education (teaching of hygiene).
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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/C987936/
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CO 295
Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence
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