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TABLE OF DOCUMENTS (WITH ANNOTATIONS)PART I: CO 352/7 REGISTER OF CORRESPONDENCE, BRUNEI, 1904-1914DOCUMENTNUMBERDATERECEIVEDIN CODOCUMENT DETAILSANNOTATION(i) Despatches from the High Commissioner, 1906–191436821 06.10.1906 Post of Assistant Resident: requests approval ofthe appointment of FAS McClelland on £540-£600 and special allowance of £100 per annum.1987 16.01.1907 Oil: Anxious for a reply to telegram of 10January.18577 23.05.1908 Land and Mining Enactments: certain amendmentswere required in the former – but hopesthere will be no long delay in passing bothmeasures.McClelland (1873–1947) served as Assistant Residentin Brunei from May 1906 to May 1907. See also CO273/331 (33045). He joined the FMS Civil Service inNovember 1896 (Class 1B, 1919; Class 1A, September1922). His later, more senior posts included Auditor-General, FMS; Commissioner of Lands, FMS; andActing Resident, Perak.CO 531/1 (1331). This matter concerns an applicationby CE Gadelius for a mining lease (which was notactually issued until 1909). See further SarawakMuseum Journal 1995: 88.The Mining Enactment was passed in 1908; the LandCode did not get through until 1909.Vide infra for further Enactments passed in 1908.34424 21.09.1908 Estimates 1908: sends printed copies. Actual revenue in 1908 was only Str$43,539, actualexpenditure $75,738.34425 21.09.1908 Report on Brunei 1907. Now held in CO 824/1.47501 28.12.1908 Courts Order in Council – were gazetted 10November; copies of three Orders by Governor inCouncil were forwarded in Straits Despatch 26November (last, Governor 46547; next, HC39359/1909)See, further, British and Foreign State Papers (101):100.(Continued on next page)