West Indies, 1840, Slave Compensation Commission : Supplement to the parliamentary returns : Returns; Financial document 1840.

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Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Slave Compensation Commission: Five documents contained in letter from the Compensation Commissioners and received on 21 December 1840 (register number West Indies 2401) summarising the claims made and amount of money paid out by the Compensation Commissioners and a summary of outstanding claims and awards to 1 December 1840. The documents are bound in the following order: No 2: Statement of awards made and of balances remaining of Inter Colonial Apportionment up to 1 December 1840. For each colony this is a summary of the number of compensation claims and value of the awards paid out and the number of claims waiting adjudication. No 3: Tabular digest of statement contained in account No 2. Progress of adjudication to 1 December 1840. Statement showing the disposition of claims awarded and also the number of claims and amount of compensation remaining undisposed of. No 4: Statement of litigated claims remaining undisposed on 1 December 1840. For each colony this is a list of all claims outstanding by claim number and the value of the award. No 5: Reserve fund, the balance of unpaid money remaining to the credit of each colony No 1: A supplement to the returns made by the Compensation Commissioners to both Houses of Parliament on 16 January 1838, and cover not only the West Indian colonies and Bermuda but also Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope. They show the various sums awarded as compensation since the January 1838 returns were provided, the parties to whom the compensation has been awarded, the colony concerned, and the number of slaves for whom the award was made, and are arranged as follows: List A: awards made in respect of uncontested claims, giving name of colony and place, date of award, number of claim, name of person to whom payment awarded, number of slaves, and sum awarded; List B: amount of compensation money forfeited under the 46th Section of the Act 3&4 William IV cap 73, giving number of claim and amount only; List C: awards made in respect of litigated claims, giving name of colony and place, date of adjudication and award, number of claim, name of person to whom payment awarded, and the sum awarded. The column 'number of slaves' [where it exists] has been completed only for British Guiana, Trinidad, Mauritius and Cape of Good Hope; List D: awards made for the payment or transfer of the compensation money into court by order of the High Court of Chancery, giving name of colony and place, date of adjudication and award, number of claim, name of cause [ie name of the plaintiff and defendant]; List E: transfers made by the accountant general of the High Court of Chancery in pursuance of orders of the colonial courts, giving name of colony and place, number of claim, name of claimant, and sum. The number of slaves is given only in the case of British Guiana. The original parliamentary returns which were presented on 16 January 1838 are in T 71/1400-1421 and printed in Parliamentary Papers, session 1837-38 volume 48 (a database to these returns is online at Legacies of British slave-ownership http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ ) [The letter from the Compensation Commissioners is not in this volume but it is probably the final statement of the commissioners dated 19 December 1840 as a copy of these returns were also received by the Treasury in T 1/4229, paper 27736. T 71/1422 is another copy of the supplement (No 1) and T 1/4229 contains copies of No 1 and No 2. The volume is described on the spine as 'volume 2'; at the time of cataloguing volume 1 has not been identified.].

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AMDigital Reference:CO 318/150.

CO 318.