Memorandum Book: Sugar Estates in the West Indies, 1847

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The memorandum book includes notes about estates in Jamaica, information on certain specific estates, manufacture of sugar, price of sugar, immigration of indentured labour, salaries, wages etc, growth of sugar cane in other West Indian islands. Some of the topics that may be found in the memorandum book include: 1) Books connected with W.I. ; most recent entry 1848. f.1b. 2) Postal frequency in town from country. f.2. 3) Currency. f.2. 4) Trains. f.2. 5) Memoranda, sugar (p.3, his own) ; machines, boats, quality; p.5 manure, cattle, salaries for labourers, crops (Jerusalem artichokes). 6) Salary government (& bishop). p.7. 7) Duties and charges. p.8. 8) Balance of trade, Jamaica, 1848. 9) Parish taxes. p.10/ 10) Index (general). p.11. 11) Export fees for 1847 and imports (p.108) 1851. (insert). 12) Establishments (Jamaica). p.15ss. 13) Method of sugar production (1846) p.30s and sketch of machine. 14) Cost of sugar. p.33, & 29. 15) Egyptian sugar plantation of Mahomet Ali. p.34. 16) Cocoa near sea, etc. p.34. 17) Plants. p.36ss. (alphabetically listed) 18) Salaries & wages. p.52. 19) Stocks. p. 52 (November -February) 20) Distances and connections by ship. p.63b ss. etc. 21) "My place". p.65. 22) Labourers and immigartion. p.67s. 23) Vestries. p.70.

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