Sierra Leone Blue Book

Sierra Leone Blue Book 1927 This is an administrative and statistical compendium for the British colonial territory of Sierra Leone, covering the fiscal year 1927. The document comprises detailed tabular records of government operations and economic data. The contents include comprehensive customs tariff schedules listing import duties on a wide range of goods—spirits, tobacco, textiles, metal goods, foodstuffs, chemicals, and other merchandise—with specific rates charged per unit weight, volume, or quantity. Exemptions from duty are granted for military equipment, government imports, and provisions for the armed forces and colonial administration. The catalog further indexes sections on revenue and expenditure, public debt, municipalities, public works, legislation, civil establishment, population and vital statistics, ecclesiastical returns, education, banking, trade, shipping, production, wages, criminal statistics, hospitals, meteorological observations, railways, post and telegraph services, and harbor facilities. The Blue Book functioned as the official annual record of Sierra Leone's colonial government administration and economy.