Catalogue description Colonial Office: Ascension Original Correspondence

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Details of CO 749
Reference: CO 749
Title: Colonial Office: Ascension Original Correspondence
Description:

This series contains original correspondence relating to Ascension.
Date: 1922-1923
Related material:

For correspondence after 1923 see CO 247
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 1 volume(s)
Unpublished finding aids:

For a register to this correspondence see CO 823

Administrative / biographical background:

Ascension was taken under British rule in 1815 but was under Admiralty control until 1922 when responsibility was passed to the Colonial Office and made a dependency of St Helena.

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