Actions for Bahamas 1869 public offices. Part 2, Foreign Office, vol. 5.

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Bahamas 1869 public offices. Part 2, Foreign Office, vol. 5.

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[London : Colonial Office], 1869.
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Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Letters from the Foreign Office on matters related to the Bahamas. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: territorial jurisdiction of Spain on the coast of Cuba and adjacent Cays, alleged use of port of Nassau by Cuban insurgents, Nassau mail bag opened by Spanish authorities in Havana, attempt to prevent filibusters from using British possessions for meeting, passport regulations in Cuba, capture of British vessel Galvanic by Cuban authorities, decree by Captain General of Havana of 24 March affecting vessels captured in Spanish waters or on the high seas with war contraband on board, capture of American brig Mary Lowell by a Spanish warship within British jurisdiction, alleged irregularities in Nassau in connection with Spanish steamer Comanditario , proceedings of Spanish vessels in the West Indies and the Bahamas, Commodore Phillimore's mission to Havana concerning the Spanish authorities proceedings in the West Indies, alleged use of British vessel Salvador by Cuban insurgents, information given to the Jamaican government regarding the passport system in Cuba and crews of foreign vessels trading with that island, Don Bernardo Menandez y Alonso's appointment as Spanish Consul at Nassau, question of the power of governors of British colonies in cases similar to that of the Salvador, question of whether drilling by Cubans in their own houses in the Bahamas could be interfered with under the Foreign Enlistment Act, C William's application for compensation for alleged damages sustained from the trespass of men who landed at Barry Islands from a Spanish warship, seizure of the Salvador in Nassau, instructions to certain West Indian governors regarding Cuban insurgents, J T Thompson's application for compensation for losses due to the capture of his sloop the Jeff Davis by the Spanish authorities off the coast of Cuba, appointment of Thomas Williams as North German Consul at Nassau, abrogation of the decree of 24 March, communication between the British Consul General at Havana and the Captain General of Cuba, escape of the Salvador from Nassau harbour, release of people implicated in the mutiny on board the Comanditario and brought to Nassau on the Cherub , proceedings of Cuban insurgents in the Bahamas and Canada, suggestion that the British government had the same duties to perform towards the Haitian Republic as towards the Spanish government regarding insurgents at Cuba and Haiti, appointment of Darius Joseph as Haitian Commercial Agent at Inagua, propriety of passing a law prohibiting the exportation of arms from the Bahamas, actions of Cuban and Dominican insurgents, seizure of the Cuban vessel Lilian, appointment of Alexis W Harriott as Consular Agent for the United States at Salt Cay.
AMDigital Reference: CO 23/199.
Series: CO 23 Colonial Office and predecessors: Bahamas, Original Correspondence.
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