Post Master General – 5460/62/S
British South Africa Company Office of Mines – Form 22 (II)
Mashonaland Mining Regulation No.1 The Mashonaland Mining Regulation No.1 (1890) was designed to promote the rapid development of gold mining by large companies while ensuring the maximum benefit of the British South Africa Company. By October, 1890 nearly 300 men had begun prospecting in the country surrounding Fort Victoria, Fort Charter, and Fort Salisbury. 465…
British South Africa Company Office of the Registrar of Claims – Form 9 (II)
Education Ordinance 1899 The Education Ordinance of 1899 awarded an annual grant of ten shillings per pupil who, during the previous two years, had attended school on at least two hundred occasions provided that the school devoted at least two out of four hours daily to industrial training and the average daily attendance was not…
Free Methodist Church The Free Methodist church is rooted in the “Holiness Movement”/Methodist tradition. In the 1850s, a group of pastors belonging to the US based Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC), began challenging the church for having “lost much of the spiritual and evangelistic fervor of [its] founding fathers.” In 1860, the dissident pastors formally broke…
British South Africa Company Office of Mines – Certificate of Abandonment (Argus Co Salisbury)
