Record Group IV, Series 45

Manati Sugar Company.
    Miscellaneous records, ca.1913-1968.
     4.2 linear ft. (10 boxes)

    Series 45 contains miscellaneous administrative records from the New York office of the Manati Sugar Company.  The series was derived from several records sources and is divided into seven parts.
    The first part of the series contains documents from the 1920s.  These include cash statements and other data prepared for the board of directors as well as other records.
    The second part consists of plans for the mill and batey prepared by the company's construction engineers, the Honolulu Iron Works Company.
    The third part of the series is a record of colono accounts for 1913-1936.
    Part four of the series is the largest and most comprehensive of the seven.  It consists of subject files from the 1950s and early 1960s on various facets of the company's operations.
     The fifth part is a 1959 inventory of the company's properties.
    The sixth part contains copies of documents filed with the U.S. Dept. of State and Cuba's Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria in 1961 and 1959, respectively, relative to the company's Cuban assets and properties.
    The last part contains records for 1966-1968 pertaining to the company's Manhasset Casuals Division.

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Contents list 

Part 1 - 1920s

Box 1                               

Balances/Profit & Loss

Bond issues

Cane cars

Cane - Cuba RR

Cash Statements and agendas for Board meetings

Colonos, Debts of

Crop liens

Description of company

Directors - Misc. authorizations

Drafts

Yariguá

Part 2 - Plans, Honolulu Iron Works Company, Construction Engineer

Key plan [for sugar factory]
Feb. 16, 1921
Scale 1/16" = 1'
34" x 54"

Factory capacity. Calculated reasonable capacity in short tons of cane 
per 24 hours, 1916-1923. [chart]
Sept. 29, 1923
28" x 41"


Factory section N-N. Cross section of boiling house, sugar room and 
shipping shed.
Feb. 8, 1915
Scale 1/4" = 1'
34" x 54"

Box 2

Factory elevation F-F. Longitudinal elevation of boiling house.
August 19, 1915
Scale 1/4"= 1'
34" x 77"

Factory section H-H. Cross section of filter, press house, boiling 
house, sugar room, and shipping shed.
Date ?
Scale 1/4" = 1'
36" x 73"

Factory section K-K. Cross section of boiling house, sugar room, and 
shipping shed.
Date ?
Scale ?
36" x 45"

Port of Manati.
Feb. 28, 1919
Surveyed by Curtin and Brockie, Philadelphia.  W. P. Asten, Surveyor
Scale 1" = 50'
26" x 32"

Batey.
Surveyed by Johnson and Higgins, NY. W. P. Asten, Surveyor.
Feb. 26-28, 1919, revised March 31, 1921
Scale 1" = 100'
25" x 27"

Map of Property as of October 31, 1922
Scale 1=80,000 MTR
30" x 36"

Installations chronologically, 1913-1923. Key plan for general arrangements drawings.
Feb. 16, 1921
Scale 1/16" = 1'

Part 3 - Colono accounts, 1913-1936

Part 4 - Subject files, 1950s

Abandoned Property Law. 1954

Accounting and other aspects of Cuban sugar production

Agrarian Reform. 1959-60

Agrarian Reform. The law itself in translation. May 17, 1959

Agrarian Reform Law. 1959

 

Box 3                               

Agrarian Reform Law. 1959-60

Agrarian Reform Law. Santa Isabel

American Chamber of Commerce of Cuba. 1960

Annual Meeting. 1962

Annual Meetings stokholders. Statements for Inventories 1954-60(folder B)

Annual Meetings. Stockholders Statements, Inventories. Folder A. 1952-60

Annual Stockholders/Board of Directors meeting. Ferrocarril de Tunas, S.A. 1961

Annual Stockholders/Board of Directors Meeting. Ferrocarril de Tunas, S.A. 1960

Annual Stockholders/Board of Directors Meeting. Ferrocarril de Tunas, S.A. 1959

Blackstrap Molasses. 1958-60

Board of Directors Meetings. 1961-62

Bondholders. Offer to Settlement. 1962

Bonds. 6% Collateral Trust. 1960-65

Bourgeois Jr., L.C. - 1956-67

Branch Accounting. Discontinuance. 1959

Budget. 1/60-6/60

 

Box 4                               

Budget. 7/60-12/60

Cane Liquidations. Colonos' Claims. 1960

Cane Plantings. New.

Certificate of Incorporation. Various Dates.

Charity. 1954-58

Claims on Cuban Government. 1960-61

Cloud Seeding. 1957

Colono cane liquidation rates; Unconstitutionality of Decree 1274, January 1954

Colonos contract

Colonos' Financing. 1957

Cia. Agricola Manati. S.A. Corres. Re: Meeting & Minutes. 1/20/60

Cia. Agricola Manati. S.A.- Deed of Incorporation. 1948

Cia. Ganadera Becerra, S.A.- Grass. 1956-62

Cia. Ganadera Becerra, S.A.- Lands Available (Cattle) Lands conveyed (Lease in Safe). 1956-58

Cia. Ganada Becerra, S.A.- "Squatters" 1956-57

Contributions. Various Organizations & Memorial Gifts. Cruz, Dr.- Fee for Special Legal Services & Salary.

Cuban Counsels' Legal Opinion. Re: Nationalization of American owned Properties in Cuba. 1960

Cuban decrees, laws and regulations

Cuban Sugar Stabilization Institute. 1960

Cuban tax on dividends

Diesel-Electric Locomotives.

Contract & Correspondence. 1957-60

 

Box 5                               

El Indio. Agrarian Reform Law. 1960

El Indio Intervention, Agrarian Reform. Letters to State Dept. 1959-60

Elia. INRA Inventory. 1960

Expropriation of Property in Cuba. Questionnaire to State Dept. 1959-60

Ferrocarriles de Tunas. Board of Directors Meetings/Stockholders meetings. 1961

Ferrocarriles de Tunas. 1957-60

Ferrocarriles Occidentales de Cuba, S.A. 1955-59

Financing of 1960 Crop.

Finca Camalote. 1950-60

Finca Hato Arriba. 1946-55

Fincas. Miscellaneous. 1959

Fiscal Year Change. 1958

Fuel Oil. 1959

Garment Industry At Manati. 1957-60

Indenture Protocalization. 1956-57

Insurance in force, 1959

Interdicto Proceeding ( el Indio). 1960-63

Intervention. Elia. 1960

Intervention of Lands. Letters to State Dept. 1959-61

Invert Molasses. 1957-58

Labor. Sindicato de Obreros Potuarios. 1955-60

 

Box 6                               

Laboratory data, 1932-1960

Lage Y Cia. - Inra. 1960

Land For School Center. 1960

Land Holding and Townsite Company. 1950-60

Land Reform. 1959-60

Land Reform. "Actas" Seizure of Properties. 1960

Land Reform. Agrarian Reform. 1960

Land reform. Agrarian Reform. Equipment taken by I.N.R.A.-1960

Land Reform. Agrarian Reform. Letters to Directors and Principal Executives Officers. 1960

Land Reform. State Department. 1960-1962

Land Reform. State Department. 1960

Land Reform. Worksheets, Drafts,Questionnaires. State Department. 1959-60

Lands. Manati Lands. 1953

Lands. Nueva Description. Finca Agropada. 1960

 

Box 7                               

Lands Owned, Leased, Controlled & Cane. 1957

Leases Trading Company. Warehouses & Molasses Tanks. 1938, 1960

Letters to stockholders sent by other companies. 1960

Letters to stockholders. !952,1959-60

Letters to Sugar buyers, brokers and banks. Other Companies. 1960

Mailing List. Annual Report and Proxy MH. 1958

Manufacturing reports, 1932-1960

Mercantil Manati, S.A. - 1957-61

Ministerio of Agricultura. 1954-60

New York Stock Exchange. Census of Stockholders. 1962

New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange. Membership #153. M.S. Co.- 1947-64

News Clippings from various folders pertaining to agrarian reform. 1959-60

Note & letters recorded with cards, Returned by Stockholders. 1960

Oil. Miscellaneous Correspondence. 1957

Organizational chart

Palmillas Lease. Worksheet and Receipts. Various Dates. Port of Manati. 1952-64 Tariffs - Harbor pilotings, 1957-1958

Power of Attorney. Protocolization. 1960

Power of Attorney. Subsidiary Companies. Jose Joaquin Fraga.  Substitution of Powers. 1960

Public Relations Council. U.S. Dept. Of Justice. U.S.-Cuban Sugar  Council. 1958-59. "A Study of the Cuban Oil Situation..."

 

Box 8                               

Railroad rights-of way. Ferrocarriles de Tunas. Maps and Correspondence. 1935-40

Reforestation project, 1949

Resolution #1667. Recovery of Stolen Property. 1961

Scholarship. Juan Nicholas. 1958-60

School on Estate. 1959-63

Second Supplemental Indenture. 1956, 60.

Shrimp processing plant, proposed, 1957-1959

Statements. Bank Accounts. Cuba. 1960

Statements. Bank Accounts. Cuba. 1960

Sugar Association, Inc. The Sugar Research Foundation, Inc.

Sugar Information, Inc. 1959-60

Sugar Buyers. List. 1960

Sugar Refinery, proposed, 1956

Sugar Inventory Valuation. 1960

 

Box 9                               

Sugar Sales Contracts. 1959-60

Superproduction decrees, 1951, 1954

Survey & Appraisal of Property. 1960

Tax Aspects of Cuban Appropriations.1960

Tax reform law, 1959

Trans-Cuba Oil Co., 1954-1959

U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Bureau of Int. Programs, 1952

Van Horne-Yarigua-Cuban Land Co./Leases

Visitors to the plantation, 1958-1959

Warehouses Sugar Storage Capacity

Water supply, 1957

Writs of Expropriation. INRA.1960

 

Part 5 - Inventory of 1959

 

Box 9-11                   

Part 6 - Documents filed with INRA and State Dept., 1959 and 1961

 

Box 11                             

Part 7 - Records, 1966-1968