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- 1919 (Creation)
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Despatches from Charles Richard Mackey O'Brien, governor of Barbados, in continuation of CO 28/295, as well as letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals during 1919. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from Offices and Individuals (much of which relates to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 28/295 and CO 28/296) is not. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments): Crown Agents (purchase of surplus war stores, licence for the importation of a dog, Captain O L Hancock's application for War Gratuity); Foreign Office (services rendered by US pilot boat Philadelphia to the schooner James William , execution of Robert Neal); Home Office (cocaine and opium for Barbados); Treasury (pension for J M Lash); War Office (service of Lieutenant Leicester Grant Perkins, military stores available for issue to Barbados, appointment of governor as honorary colonel of Barbados Volunteer Force) Miscellaneous Offices: City and West End Properties Limited (financial position of Major W H G Thorne); Cumberland
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The National Archives >> Records of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Empire Marketing Board, and related bodies >> Correspondence with the colonies, entry books and registers of correspondence >> Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence >> Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State.
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- Latin