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Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Drafts of circular despatches sent...
Catalogue reference: CO 318/141
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This record is about the Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Drafts of circular despatches sent... dating from 1838 in the series Colonial Office and Predecessors: West Indies Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 318/141
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1838
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Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Drafts of circular despatches sent to the West Indian colonies in general, or to certain of the colonies. Includes two draft circular letters to missionary societies forwarding a report on 'negro education' and providing information about the Parliamentary grant for that purpose. Final versions of circulars may be found in the series CO 854. This volume also includes some internal Colonial Office memoranda. Subjects covered in circulars and memoranda are as follows: Circulars:
- Termination of apprenticeship scheme;
- Capture of liberated Africans returned to Sierra Leone;
- Act to amend Act for the abolition of slavery;
- Commons request for returns of religious establishments;
- Establishment of special magistrates in the Leeward Islands;
- Admiralty provision of steam vessels;
- Additional article to slave trade treaty between UK and Netherlands;
- Disposal of liberated Africans;
- Apprenticeship of liberated Africans;
- Request for return of convictions at Quarter Sessions;
- Disposal of Crown lands;
- Required changes in laws following termination of apprenticeship system;
- Order in Council concerning employment laws;
- Act for the better government of prisons;
- Currency;
- Law officers' opinion on the legalilty of apprenticing liberated Africans;
- Request for returns from magistrates;
- Lands;
- Corporal punishment;
- Militia;
- Immigration;
- Remittances and salaries for stipendiary magistrates;
- Poor relief;
- Reported prospect of agitation at end of apprenticeship system;
- Police;
- Capital and transportable offences;
- Expense of sending military convicts to England en route to their final destination;
- Restitution of fugitive slaves.
- List of applicants for various posts;
- Notes for Cabinet on end of apprenticeship system;
- State of affairs in Jamaica;
- Manner in which Government should deal with Acts abolishing apprenticeship which contain objectional clauses;
- Objection of Anti Slavery Society to certain laws;
- Special magistracy;
- Reception of contract and vagrancy ordinances in the West Indies;
- Printed copy of proclamation regarding labour by the governor of the Danish West Indies.
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