Box 606766769
Container
Contains 179 Results:
One original and eight copied letters from Watts to the Company; Probyn, Officer Administering the Government, Southern Nigeria; Fosbery; Lugard; Puttkamer, and A. Miller, 22 Apr-11 May 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 316-328
Subjects covered include:
(fols. 316-317, 319, 327-328) government preferential treatment for petty traders and Holt's
(fols. 317, 328) government canteens
(fol. 317) government use of Company vessels
(fol. 318) licences to prospect
(fol. 320) problems of labour recruitment
(fols. 321-322, 324-325) the Kamerun (Cameroon)...
Extents: 13 Leaves
Dates:
22 Apr-11 May 1903
Letter from Trigge to Scarbrough, 13 May 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 329-330
On:
the accounting system for canteens
prices for goods
the commercial possibilities of mangrove bark for paper-making, tanning, and dyeing.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
13 May 1903
Extracts copied from four of Watts's letters to the Company and A. Miller, 15-18 May 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 331-334
About the difficulties faced by the indigenous population and trade due to government taxes on canoes, rubber at Takum, and cargoes from Boussa (Bussa); also, date of Holt's opening at Lokoja.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
15-18 May 1903
Signed copy of a letter from Scarbrough to Lugard clarifying points over the original intention of the rebate question, and proposing a solution, 19 May 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 335-338
Two letters from A. Miller to Scarbrough, 22-23 and 26 May 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 339-344
Letters:
(fols. 340-341) letter enclosing an unsigned copy of a memorandum (fol. 339, from Trigge)
(fols. 343-344) copy of a cable (fol. 342 to Watts).
These papers rebut Lugard's assumptions of Chartered Company trading profits [see fol. 327], and point out existing hindrances for the reconstituted Company; Moor's 'opening up' of the Igbarra...
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates:
22-23 and 26 May 1903
Letter from Flint to Scarbrough on the implications for the Company of Lugard's canoe tax, 9 Jun 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fol. 360
Endorsed with Scarbrough's note that the tax applies only to indigenous vessels.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
9 Jun 1903
Official letter from Lugard to Scarbrough, enclosing copy of his draft despatch to the Under-S/S Col. setting out the compromise achieved on the 'wages question', 10 Jun 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 361-366a
Copies of correspondence between Puttkamer and Watts in which the Governor accepts the charter conditions and anticipates the Company's store at Garua (Garoua), 11 Jun, 1 Jul 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 367-368
The Agent General also regrets that the delay in replying has led him to cancel both arrangements.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
11 Jun, 1 Jul 1903
Letter from Miller to Scarbrough on government 'folly' in taxing produce-collectors; he ascribes the lack of development to earlier indigenous and present government taxation, 22 Jun 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 369-370
Two memoranda initialled by Trigge on the cost of ivory and the impracticability of trading under the ivory tax, 25 Jun 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 371-372
Extracts copied from Watts's Company letters concerning the Puttkamer agreements; no repercussions as yet, 30 Jun, 3 Jul 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fol. 373
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
30 Jun, 3 Jul 1903
Manuscript draft letter from Scarbrough to Sir Henry Howorth answering the latter's criticisms of the Working Agreement and the Executive, 'Jul' 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fol. 374
Also suggesting Goldie that again justify amalgamation to the Board [see fols. 398-405].
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
'Jul' 1903
Copy [or draft] of two printed notices concerning deck passages from Burutu to Lokoja, and Abutshi to Burutu, 1 Jul 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fol. 375
Note from Lugard to Scarbrough, mentioning Williamson's report, and the rubber tax, 3 Jul 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 376-377
Extract copied from a Company letter from Watts on government arrangements for Puttkamer's transport, 16 Jul 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fol. 406
Copy of a telegram from Puttkamer to Watts asking how to forward equipment to Yola, 18 Jul 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fol. 407
Copy of a Company letter from Watts criticising the Northern Nigerian Government's efforts to secure revenue, and the 'gloomy' prospects these raise, 21 Jul 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 408-409
Draft manuscript letter from Scarbrough to Howorth, dealing with the points at issue and explaining the relationship between management and executive, 21 Jul 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 410-411
Two schedules by Trigge and by Scarbrough on profits and expenses of Company stations, 23 Jul 1903, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 412-424
Includes schedules by Trigge (fols. 412-422) and Scarbrough (fols. 423-424).
Extents: 13 Leaves
Dates:
23 Jul 1903, n.d.
Copies of correspondence between Watts, Wallace, and C. Migeod of Lokoja Customs, about the salt tariff, 24-25 Jul 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 425-429
Also about the different treatment accorded to Holt's and the Company over capitation fees for canoemen under the Master and Servants' Proclamation. [These letters were originally sent to Scarbrough with fols. 442-443.]
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates:
24-25 Jul 1903