Application to acquire labourers and liberated Africans from the United States of America. Grenada, 1862.

Catalogue reference: CO101/118/63 folio 474. Crown Copyright.

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Copy L.B. cons: 26th Nov. 62 L.7. Ans[were]d- 193 – 28th Nov. 62 Desp: to Gov: Antigua 262 – 28 Nov 62 further Ans[were]d - 130- 12th December L.75

11172 Grenada
Immigration

                                                             RECEIVED
                                                             14 NOV
                                                             1862

Grenada & Co.
Immigration

Windward Islands
Barbados, 20 October 1862

84, 6’October 1862
For. off. 4.I.I

                                                             My Lord Duke,
                                                             I have the honor to forward
                                                             to Your Grace a copy of a despatch
                                                             from the Lieutenant Governor of
                                                             Grenada, accompanying an Address
                                                              10843 from the House of Assembly, in
                                                             which they request steps to be
                                                             taken for procuring 1,000 laborers
                                                             from the Government of the United
                                                             “States”, and 500 Liberated Africans.