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Catalogue description Foreign Office: Treaty Department and successors: General Correspondence from 1906
| Reference: | FO 372 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Foreign Office: Treaty Department and successors: General Correspondence from 1906 |
| Description: |
This series contains correspondence, etc., of the Treaty Department of the Foreign Office. Subjects covered include treaty correspondence with other countries; shipping claims against Russia and Japan arising from the Russo-Japanese war; honours and decorations; territorial waters; extradition treaties; nationality; consular and diplomatic appointments; prize courts; diplomatic privileges; civil procedure; marriage regulations; deportation agreements; and various royal matters including state and royal visits. Files include records created by the Prize Court Department (1914-1920) and the Dominions Information Department (1926-1933). FO 372/3360-3410 are numbers not used. |
| Date: | 1906-1985 |
| Arrangement: |
From FO 372/3308 onwards, the number in the former reference column refers to a file number. Dominions Information Papers, which up to the end of 1928 were filed with Treaty (T) papers, were classed separately for the years 1929-1933 inclusive with the letter designation (U). |
| Related material: |
For records of the Dominions Department see FO 627 For Treaty Department correspondence up to 1905 see Subseries within FO 83 For later treaty and nationality records see FCO 53 For later records on protocol matters see FCO 57 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Nationality and Treaty Department, 1968-1990 Foreign Office, Dominions Information Department, 1926-1933 |
| Physical description: | 8215 files and volumes |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1994 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing. |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
See FO 566 and FO 662 for indexes to the papers from 1906-1920, and FO 409 for 1920-1951. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
There was a Treaty Division/Department of the Foreign Office from its inception in 1782 until the merger of Foreign and Commonwealth Offices in 1968 to form the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The responsibilities of the Treaty Department included: orders in council, full powers commissions, credentials, exequaturs, royal matters, British and foreign orders, medals and rewards, diplomatic privileges, ceremonial questions, precedence, nationality, naturalisation, protection, extradition, enforcement of foreign enlistments act, consular conventions and passports. The Dominions Information Department was established in 1926, shortly after the establishment of a separate Dominions Office to supply information on foreign policy to the dominions. The department was created to deal with inter-imperial relations so far as they affected Foreign Office and to deal with matters of protocol affecting the foreign relations of the dominions. The department was wound up in 1933, its functions being transferred to the Treaty Department. |
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