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THE

COLONIAL OFFICE LIST

FOR

1862;

OR,

General Register

OF THE

COLONIAL DEPENDENCIES OF GREAT BRITAIN.

WITH MAP.

FIRST PUBLICATION.-TO BE CONTINUED ANNUALLY.

COMPILED UNDER THE SANCTION OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES,
FROM OFFICIAL RECORDS, &c., &c.

BY

WILLIAM C. SARGEAUNT AND ARTHUR N. BIRCH,

OF THE COLONIAL OFFICE.

LONDON:

EDWARD STANFORD, 6 CHARING CROSS.-S.W.
1862.

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PREFACE.

THE Compilers of the Colonial Office List for 1862 have sent the following pages, the result of their labour, to the press with great. diffidence, though they have spared no pains to render it as complete as possible-so far as they have been permitted by the information within their reach.

The difficulty experienced in preparing this first Number for publication

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proves, they think, how desirable it was that some such work should have been undertaken.

The present Number is submitted to Subscribers and the Public in fulfilment of promises made in a Circular Letter, dated the 8th November, 1860. The Compilers view it as an approximation only to that which they at first expected to achieve.

They would invite those most directly interested to supply omissions and correct inaccuracies, which it is hardly possible to avoid in a first publication.

The Compilers gladly take this opportunity of thanking the many eminent Government Officers who have rendered them much valuable assistance in their task.

Colonial Office,

December, 1861.

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