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152 x 101 mm. Showing a herd of fenced cattle with jungle in the background and mounted ranch hands in the foreground.

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152 x 102 mm. Showing cattle and horses grazing on cleared land. Written in ink on the front of the print is 'Note the Cahoun palms' of which several specimens are visible.

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152 x 101 mm. Showing bullock teams dragging carts loaded with mahogany trunks under the charge of the Honduran estate workers.

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Extracts from the archives, news cuttings and various original documents. They appear to have been compiled by Frederick Hardyman Parker, probably as research for a projected history of British Honduras. Some were likely collected by his father, William Alexander Parker, Chief Justice of British Honduras.

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These include ‘The report of the Council of Jamaica respecting the Mosquito Shore, 1774,’ and the judgement in the Supreme Court of 'Amos Gabourel & Anor v. Henry A. Gabourel', 1886. There are original papers (15 in all) taken from Letter Books for the years 1775-77 and 1822.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents The file contains extracts from treaties and more particularly from a report made by the King’s Advocate, Sir C. Robinson, on 8 July 1825, containing an opinion on the treaties of 1773 and 1786, together with a report by the King’s Advocate to the Foreign Office on 13 February 1828, with respect to the right of Great Britain to the British settlements in the Bay of Honduras. There are also copies of documents appointing officials to British Honduras, including a document signed by Edward...

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Major Thomas Bradley attempted to assume command of the garrison in Honduras on 22 May 1820 and was placed under arrest by Arthur. In 1837, Bradley presented a petition to Parliament charging him with having ‘not only usurped military power, but with having exercised that power in an inhuman and revolting manner’ in the punishment of Gunner Ingram. These files relate to the accusation and Arthur's defence.

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110 x 80 mm.

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127 x 101 mm. Showing an unidentified part of the waterfront at Belize City with buildings in the background and a young boy facing the camera in the foreground.

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127 x 101 mm. Showing the 'International Hotel' in Belize City, a three-storey wooden frame building with verandahs.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

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Copies of proclamations issued by Arthur.

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127 x 101 mm. A view looking along the narrow grass-lined road, lined with palm trees and wooden framed domestic houses, with the junction with Cockburn's Lane at the left of the photograph.

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This is a printed document of 8 pages, apparently issued in the year 1826. The appendix is kept with RCMS 269/12.

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152 x 101 mm. Showing a wooden two-storey house with verandas on the estate, with horses and a bull in the foreground.

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155 x 202 mm. (2 copies) Mr Nigel Fisher, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Colonies (centre), chats with Sir Peter Stallard (left), Governor of British Honduras and (right) Mr. G.C. Price, First Minister and Minister of Finance, British Honduras, after agreement had been reached on full internal self-government for British Honduras.

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154 x 203 mm. (2 copies) Watched by a television newsreel cameraman, Mr. G.C. Price, First Minister and Minister of Finance, British Honduras, signs the agreement which will give British Honduras full internal self-government. He is also watched by (left to right) Mr. W.H. Courtenay, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Adviser, and Mr. C.L. Rogers, Minister of Labour, British Honduras.

Scope and Contents 143 x 203 mm. (2 copies) This picture was taken during the signing of the agreement which will give British Honduras full internal self-government. Left to right (round the table) are Mr. W.H. Courtenay, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Adviser to the British Honduras delegation; Mr. C.L. Rogers, Minister of Labour, British Honduras; Mr. G.C. Price, First Minister and Minister of Finance, British Honduras; Mrs. G.M. Lizarraga, Member of the Legislative Assembly, British Honduras...

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151 x 202 mm. Mr Nigel Fisher, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Colonies (left), shakes hands with Mr. G.C. Price, First Minister and Minister of Finance, British Honduras, after agreement had been reached in London on full internal self-government for British Honduras.

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139 x 88 mm. A postcard (original photograph) by Avery looking across the Belize River to the 'United Fruit Co' buildings; with boats in the foreground.