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Catalogue description Colonial Office: Zanzibar: Original Correspondence
| Reference: | CO 618 |
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| Title: | Colonial Office: Zanzibar: Original Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series contains Colonial Office correspondence relating to Zanzibar. The files contain in-letters and subsequent action including minutes and drafts of out-letters. The records relate to all aspects of internal administration, including public health, policing and economic regulation especially of agriculture and the clove industry. |
| Date: | 1913-1951 |
| Related material: |
For correspondence dating from the Foreign Office's administration of Zanzibar see: For further correspondence see CO 822 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 88 files and volumes |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
For registers to this correspondence see CO 772 |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Zanzibar became a British protected state in 1890. Responsibility for Zanzibar was transferred from the Foreign Office to the Colonial Office in January 1914. |
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