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Official: Colonial Office: expenditure., c 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/46

Scope and Contents

Includes notes and papers by Colonial Office officials and printed copies of correspondence from 2nd Lord Selborne, Governor of the Transvaal [and High Commissioner for South Africa] (4) and 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and a minute by WSC.Subjects include: comparison of annual expenditure with that of previous years and details of debt; import duty on various articles; various matters concerning South African politics, including the Transvaal loan settlement and land settlement in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony [later Orange Free State]; the Jamaica earthquake and the retirement of the Governor, Sir Alexander Swettenham; financial losses suffered by civil servants in the Straits settlements [later Malaysia and Singapore]; Canadian-United States commercial relations.

Dates

  • c 1907

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 file(s) (1 bound file (38 folios))

Language of Materials

English