Colonial Law in Africa, 1808-1919 - Volumes
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Sierra Leone, 1808-1919
The publication of this Gazette would depend on the will of the Governor from 1808 until 1870. The following years were printed and are included here: 1808-1810, 1817-1828 and 1870-1919. This Gazette would also go through a series of titles. Names of colonial officers are present in the gazettes from 1808, alongside ship arrivals and departures. The gazettes covering 1817 include letters to the editor on slavery. Later volumes would... Read more →
Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), 1894-1919
The first of these gazettes was published in October 1894, 29 years before the first Blue Book of statistics for Zimbabwe. Colonial officers receive some scattered mentions from 1894. Lists of officers from 1900 to 1903 are mainly of the dead, notices of officer appointments begin in 1904. Early gazettes include Government notices, alongside legal and survey notices. Later editions included customs tariffs and business deals, alongside legal notices. These... Read more →
The Gambia, 1883-1919
The Gambian gazettes were first published in 1883 and appear in a complete series thereafter. Notices of officers' appointments and dismissals were present from the beginning. Alongside the legal notices, contents include shipping records and license applications. Records from 1895 to 1914 include accounts of Government income and spending; weather reports cover from 1895 to 1919. Events covered by these reports include the Boer War in 1900, the smallpox outbreak... Read more →
Ghana (Gold Coast), 1876-1919
These gazettes were first published in 1876, and then continue until 1919. Scattered references to officers appear from the first edition. An index of subjects and officers' names, from 1872 to 1884, is published at the start of the volume for 1881. Further subject and name indexes feature from 1883 onwards. Royal proclamations and court records are present from the earliest Gazettes. Financial records feature from 1886 and weather reports... Read more →
