West India Miscellaneous, 1838, Offices and Individuals : Prison Reports : Petition; Public notice; Financial document; Minutes; Legal document; Plans and Illustrations; Acts and Legislation; Returns; Report; Printed book; Address; Correspondence Mar 1826 - Mar 1831.

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Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Miscellaneous papers concerning prisons and other matters; contents as follows: Printed pamphlet, 'The West Indian Colonies: remarks on their present state and future prospects' by Captain J W Pringle, RE, employed on a mission of inquiry into the state of the prisons of these colonies in the years 1837-38 [19 pages]; Parliamentary prints of Captain J W Pringle's reports on: 'Prisons in the West Indies: Jamaica' [No 596, 1838, 60 pages plus plans]; and 'Prisons in the West Indies Part II, Barbados, Montserrat, Antigua, Tortola and St Lucia' [No 596.-II, 1838, 44 pages plus plans]; 'Copies of correspondence relative to the State of the Gaols in the West Indies and the British Colonies in South America; and also, of any instructions which have been sent out from the Colonial Office relative to such Prisons', [Parliamentary Paper No 334, 1831, 100 pages]; Printed copy of 4 Geo IV Cap LXIV, 'An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to the building, repairing, and regulating of certain Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales' [10 July 1823]; Printed copy of 'Draft of a Bill for the better Government of Prisons in the West Indies', 1838; Printed copy of 1&2 Vic Cap LXVII, 'An Act for the better Government of Prisons in the West Indies' [4 August 1838]; Printed copy of 'the protest of William Burge Esquire, Agent for the Island of Jamaica, addressed to Lord Glenelg, dated Lincoln's Inn, 21st July 1838, in relation to a Bill, intituled'An Act for the better Government of Prisons in the West Indies'; Printed copy of 'Rules and Regulations for Prisons and Workhouses in the Bahamas', 1836; Extracts of printed papers relating to slavery in the British colonies, 1837; 'Report on the State of Prison Discipline in Van Diemen's Land etc.' by Captain Maconochie, 1837 [printed for Parliament]; Together with correspondence with Captain J W Pringle and Colonial Office circulars, etc.

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AMDigital Reference:CO 318/136.

CO 318.