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Antigua Contractor Frauds

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Antigua Contractor Frauds

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Overview

Navigation Act — Boreas Enforcement already records the enforcement order. Island Colours — Four Americans Nevis already records the four seizures. Register Act — Boreas Memorial already records the memorial. This note covers the contractor figures only.1

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Southey says two Antigua merchants informed him that they were privy to great frauds committed upon government in various departments: at Antigua, to the amount of nearly £500,000; at Lucie, £300,000; at Barbadoes, £250,000; at Jamaica, upwards of a million. Vouchers, he found, were no check whatever in that country; the merchants were in the habit of signing vouchers for each other, without even the appearance of looking at the articles.2

The navigation-act order stays on Navigation Act — Boreas Enforcement. The four seizures stay on Island Colours — Four Americans Nevis. The memorial stays on Register Act — Boreas Memorial. This page does not add a later spoken line or invent a recovery total.

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  1. Enforcement order only: Navigation Act — Boreas Enforcement. Four ships only: Island Colours — Four Americans Nevis. Memorial / Register Act only: Register Act — Boreas Memorial. ↩

  2. Two Antigua merchants; Antigua nearly £500,000; Lucie £300,000; Barbadoes £250,000; Jamaica upwards of a million; vouchers were no check; merchants signed vouchers for each other without looking at the articles. @southey1813nelson vol. 1, pp. 71–72 (1813). No spoken line on this page. ↩

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