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Governor Wood's petition for unpaid salary arrears, March 1772

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14 March 1772

Two letters from Governor John Wood to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury regarding £1300+ in unpaid salary arrears and a £1000 bill drawn on the Treasury. The documents reveal post-Revestment financial dysfunction: revenues appropriated by Parliament for civil establishment were diverted to harbour works and remitted to London, leaving island officials unpaid. Demonstrates administrative breakdown under Receiver General Lutwidge.

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