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Project / Collection Digitising the endangered historic records of Nevis in the Leeward Islands Container Reference (shelfmark) EAP794/1 Subject Politics and Government

1. EAP794/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP794/1/3
Title:
Supreme Court
Scope & Content:
The early records of the Supreme Court in Nevis stem from the passage in 1871 of the Leeward Islands Act. This created the Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands, under a single Governor, in which Nevis was one of six Presidencies with its own Administrator. One of the expressions of the Federal ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1874-1962
Extent:
9 files containing 3145 TIFF images

2. EAP794/1/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP794/1/8
Title:
Land Title Register
Scope & Content:
The historic Land Title Register Books are generally thick volumes, 28 cm x 43 cm with anything up to 100 pages plus numerous attachments. The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) Registry office also acts as a Land Registry and is frequently used as such by ordinary Nevisians transferring or ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1887-1922
Extent:
3 files containing 403 TIFF images

3. EAP794/1/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP794/1/9
Title:
Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
This series of Miscellaneous Records encompasses anything from a single book of prescriptions, formerly the Infirmary Book, to a volume of commissions to various public appointees by the Lieutenant Governor of the Leeward Islands between 1863 and 1919 and two surveyor's field notebooks. There ar...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840-1940
Extent:
23 files containing 3119 TIFF images

4. EAP794/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP794/1/10
Title:
Plans and Maps
Scope & Content:
The loose digitised estate plans are comprised of a few large sheets, and a far greater number of smaller-sized plans. The large plans date between 1888 and 1929. They consist of individual plans of large estates on Nevis of several hundred up to one thousand acres or more. The largest plans can...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1974
Extent:
1 file containing 205 TIFF images