Catalogue description Records of Commissions

Details of Division within FO
Reference: Division within FO
Title: Records of Commissions
Description:

Records of commissions relating to investigations and negotiations on a variety of issues.

Claims commissions:

  • American Claims Commission, FO 304
  • British and American Claims Commission, FO 305
  • British and Brazilian Claims Commission, FO 306
  • British and Buenos Airean Claims Commission, FO 307
  • British and Portuguese Claims Commission, FO 309
  • British and Venezuelan Claims Commission, FO 310
  • Spanish Claims Commissions, FO 316

Slave trade commissions:

  • London Slave Trade Commission, FO 308
  • Cape Town Slave Trade Commission, FO 312
  • Havana Slave Trade Commission, FO 313
  • Jamaica Slave Trade Commission, FO 314
  • Sierra Leone Slave Trade Commission, FO 315

Commissions dealing with post First World War issues:

  • Reparation Commission, FO 801
  • International Plebiscite Commission in Schleswig, FO 852
  • Inter-Allied Administrative and Plebiscite Commission in Upper Silesia, FO 890
  • Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission, FO 894
  • Inter Allied Plebiscite Commission (Peck Commission), FO 895
  • Inter Allied Commission of Control in Austria, FO 896

Other commissions:

  • American Fisheries Commission, FO 301
  • American North-West Boundary Commission, FO 302
  • American Treaty of Ghent Commission, FO 303
  • Paris Exhibition Commission, FO 316
  • Miscellaneous commissions, FO 317
  • British and Mexican Mixed Commission, FO 318 and FO 319
  • Albania International Commission of Control (British Delegation), FO 320
  • Eastern Roumelian Commission, FO 901
  • Argentine-Chile Frontier Case, Court of Arbitration, FO 928
  • European Advisory Commission, FO 1079
  • Commissioner-general for the UK in South East Asia and his successor, the UK commissioner for Singapore and South East Asia, FO 1091
Date: 1790-1967
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 30 series
Administrative / biographical background:

From time to time commissioners were appointed to conduct bilateral or multilateral negotiations on matters of a technical or administrative nature, often extending over a considerable period of time. They dealt with such matters as boundaries, claims, prizes and, in the nineteenth century, the suppression of the slave trade. A number of commissions were set up after the First World War in particular to administrate the plebiscites held as a result of the terms of the Versailles Treaty.

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