Sugar plantations (3 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. 13 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Category: Glasgow Philosophical Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

3pp., 4to. Bifolium. 56 lines. Good, on aged paper. Addressed on reverse of second leaf to 'Mrs. Curling'. Casamajor is taking 'the earliest opportunity' to inform Mrs Curling 'by the last Packet', that he has 'received an Acc[oun]t. from my agent in Antigua, that the Court of Chancery in that Island had disallowed all Charges of Interest on the Arrears of the Annuities on the late Mathew Christians Estates amounting to £2567.2.5 also the Trustees Commission of £50 a year for 16 years, to this our Counsel'. The Attorney General filed a Bill of Exceptions, 'but they were overuled by the Court & the Masters report confirmed'; he prayed an appeal to 'this decretal Order', 'as directed to do, altho' he says that the reasons given by the Master in his report were such as he could not sufficiently answer'. The agent has deferred sending the papers, as they are 'so voluminous that the expence of sending them by the Packet would be enormous'. Casamajor now gives a quotation from a letter of the Attorney General, regarding 'appeals from the Plantations', before describing 'former proceedings' in the case, and his agents claim for factorage ('seeing it was likely to create delay and procrastination, he waved the claim, that the parties might not longer be kept out of their money he took the Masters Acct. up to the 8th. May last and received £2968:18:3 which is allowed to be due'). He considers that the 'business in future [.] promises to be regularly conducted'. A postscript concerns the 'considerable' expense of an appeal.…

The two items are in very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Accompanying the two items is the envelope in which they were contained, docketted: 'Letters. | Duckinfield [sic] Hall Estate | { | Meylersfield Estate & Friendship Estate Trust'. Both items are signed 'Cyril Gurney | H. A. Trotter | L. M. Harvey'. ONE (Duckenfield Hall Estate letter): 1p., 4to. Begins: 'Owing to the value of Duckenfield Hall Estate being largely in excess of £6,000, the sum at which it stands in the firm's books it is agreed between us that in the event of the death of a partner his executors shall receive a share of the surplus profits after ten per cent has been paid on £6,000.' The letter continues on the topic of the action to be taken 'in the event of the estate being sold'. A descendant of the English judge Sir John Gurney (1768-1845) and a member of a prominent abolitionist family, Cyril Gurney had married Margaret Evelyn Trotter in 1894. TWO: 1p., foolscap 8vo. Setting out what is to be done with 'any profit or surplus arising from the sale of Meylersfield Estate or from the trust in connection with he winding up of Friendship Estate.' From the Hankey & Co. banking archive.…