A second contract, involving 25 Curaçaoan men hired as lighter sailors, was recorded the day after the Venezuela contract. The work connected post-emancipation mobility to the harbor economy and maritime labor.
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What did BPM request on 26 August 1915?
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The letter reported the purchase of Asiento and asked to build a refinery there.
The refinery-related permission of 15 May 1915 concerned three piers at Schottegat.
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That is the subject of the dated Governor’s letter recorded by the National Archives.