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Commission of Legal Enquiry in the West Indies 1826, Volume 8, St Vincent and Dominica,...
Catalogue reference: CO 318/63
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This record is about the Commission of Legal Enquiry in the West Indies 1826, Volume 8, St Vincent and Dominica,... dating from 1826 in the series Colonial Office and Predecessors: West Indies Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 318/63
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1826
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Description (What the record is about)
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Commission of Legal Enquiry in the West Indies 1826, Volume 8, St Vincent and Dominica, 2nd report, 6 March 1826. The volume contains:
- a copy of the 'Second Report of the Commissioner of Inquiry into the Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice in the West Indies. St Vincent, Dominica' as printed for Parliament [No 276, 287 pp];
- manuscript original examinations relating to Dominica, Antigua, St Christopher [St Kitts], Nevis and Tortola;
- a brief note of 'Fees in Government Secretary's Office' [colony name not given];
- a list of prisoners held in the common gaol at St Vincent on 18 June 1823 [listing eleven prisoners only].
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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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- Topics
- International
- Caribbean
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C998443/
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CO 318
Colonial Office and Predecessors: West Indies Original Correspondence
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