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RETURN TO AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF COMMONS DATED 16 JULY 1812; - for Copies of Commissions of the Lords of the Treasury, appointing Commissioners for the Management of The Crown's Estates in Berbice and on the Continent of South America; dated 23 April 1811, and 22 July 1811; - viz (1) Copy of the Commission appointing William Wilberf...
London. The House of Commons. 1812. pp. 3. Small folio. Disbound. Berbice was acquired from the Dutch as a result of the Napoleonic Wars. As it had been the property of the Dutch West India Co. rather than the Dutch Government it was returned under the Anglo-Dutch treaty. While under the Commissioners, the conditions of the slaves was improved, this was later attacked by the West India Co as a miserable failure.
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