CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870 — Page 356

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My Lord,

Liverpool

20

In1186/70

0. Jan: 1870.

354

I am deeply interested in property in Surinam, Dutch Guiana, where the laboring population have lately been manumitted, & where. like Demerara & Trinidad, they are much in need of Agricultural. laborers.

YoLordship

is no

doubt aware

that the W. bank of the Corentyn River is the boundary of

British

Guiana, &. the E. bank that of Dat

a, so that the Estates are ne

of

Quian in sight from shore to shores the Estates being

nearly of the same character & mo

lly under the management of British subjects. I believe the whole of the Estates, mostly in sugar Cultivation, on the E. bank of Corentyn, are owned by The Earl of Clarendows K.G.

s

British

Subjects