COMMISSIONS X 2, APPOINTMENTS ARCHIBALD PAULL BURT PROVISIONAL CHIEF JUSTICE ST CHRISTOPHER [ST KITTS] AND ANGUILLA, 1856

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1856

Overview

Two handwritten commissions dated 8 December 1856 with seals affixed appointing AP Burt as Chief Justice in two jurisdictions, St Christopher (St Kitts) and Anguilla. The text is almost identical on both documents.

a) Appointment of AP Burt as Chief Justice of St Christopher. Single page, white paper, folded with the remnant of a green ribbon attached at the bottom and an embossed paper seal affixed to the front left. At top the document is headed "Saint Christopher".

b) Appointment of AP Burt as Chief Justice of Anguilla. Single page, folded with green ribbon attached to a paper seal affixed at bottom. At top the document is headed "Saint Christopher and Anguilla".

Historical information

These provisional appointments were made by the Lieutenant Governor of St Christopher [St Kitts] but were not confirmed by the Colonial Office in London upon the recommendation of the Governor of Antigua (the Lt. Governor's immediate superior).

Hercules Robinson, Lieutenant Governor of St Christopher 1855-1859
R. Murray Ramsay, Colonial Secretary, St Christopher: author of notations on both documents indicating appointments were not confirmed.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-46-1976.32a,b

Item type

Material

Width

335 mm

Height or length

380 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Impressed seals, assumed to represent the Colonial government of St Christopher & Anguilla

Contextual Information

The documents are representative of the mechanism by which legal appointments were being made on behalf of the Crown in British territories located in the West Indies during the height of the British Empire in the mid nineteenth century.

Keywords

Robinson, Hercules

Murray Ramsay, R

Place made

St. Kitts & Nevis

Year

1856

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