Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations...

Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados. Correspondence from the bishop of Barbados for 1837 is bound separately [see CO 28/153]. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (repeal of 4½% duty);
• Admiralty (case of distressed British seaman James Thompson almost blinded by an 'outrage' committed on him in an American brig at Curaçao);
• Agent (smallpox in St Christopher and Dominica; taxation; appointment of Mr Patrick Lynch as prothonotary and clerk of the Court of Common Pleas);
• Foreign Office (petition of Mr John Taylor concerning the 'condition of certain British Negroes ... detained as slaves in Texas');
• Home Office (case of convicts sentenced to transportation in Barbados and sent to England but subsequently pardoned - cost of sending them back);
• Law Officers (opinion on validity of sentences imposed by the Barbados Court of Grand Sessions on eleven convicts , including Abel, Wiltshire, Brophy, Brathwaite, Ames, Wrong, Milo, Jones, and Frank);
• Board of Ordnance (assistance of military engineer in repairing hurricane damage to Molehead Pier);
• Treasury (erection of lighthouse; salary of governor and acting governor; bishop's travelling expenses; passage of Governor Sir E M J McGregor; allowance to governor for clerks and stationery; petitions from Edward James Dummett and Mary Grace Thomas concerning escheated property of their late parents; currency; salary of archdeacon; costs of prosecution of Mr Francklin for the illegal removal of slaves to Trinidad; notes of the Colonial Bank in payment of duties and taxes; repeal of 4½% duty);
• War Office (appointment of Roman Catholic priest to perform religious duties for troops; governor's salary);
• Colonial Bank (request for military guard for premises);
• General Post Office (appointment of Mr John Rouget as deputy postmaster);
• School for the Indigent Blind (procedure for possible admission of John Thompson to be taught a trade [see above under Admiralty]).

Individuals:

• Thomas Fowell Buxton (two letters concerning apprenticeship of children without the consent of their parents);
• John A Beckles (his salary);
• J Bezant (application for post of stipendiary magistrate);
• Penelope Ann Barry (requests copy of death certificate of Samuel Le Jean);
• C J Cunningham (accepting post of secretary to government of Barbados);
• Archbishop of Canterbury (supporting bishop's recommendation of Mr Austen as ecclesiastical commissary of British Guiana);
• W Lloyd Caldecot (4½% duty);
• John Davies (enquiry concerning a William Webster by his niece);
• Thomas Downey (enquiry concerning property of the late Mr Corcoran);
• William Eliot (applies for living for his brother the archdeacon);
• Archdeacon Eliot (resignation; seeks living);
• Lieutenant Colonel Falls (is about to proceed to Barbados);
• J W Jordan (4½% duty);
• John Jolly (application for post of prothonotary);
• Mary Mathews (case of her daughter-in-law, the widow of Captain Frederick Mathews former stipendiary magistrate);
• Morris Moss, 'native of Bridgetown' (seeking financial assistance to return to Barbados);
• Augusta M Mathews (seeking pension on account of service of her late husband Captain Frederick Mathews former stipendiary magistrate);
• Andrew Mackenzie Miller (draft letter from Colonial Office introducing him to governor);
• Daniel O'Connell (need for Roman Catholic priest);
• Archdeacon Thomas Parry (education [with extract from The Weekly Register of Antigua reporting the annual meeting of the Antigua District Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and of the Antigua Branch Association of the Society for Advancing the Christian Faith]; his salary; his transfer from archdeaconry of Antigua to that of Barbados; travel arrangements);
• H E Sharpe (extension of leave; 4½% duty; resignation as Attorney General);
• John Savoy, secretary of the Royal Infirmary for the Diseases of the Eye (John Thompson [see above under Admiralty]);
• Sir Eardley Wilmot (request for letter of introduction for his son Lieutenant Henry Eardley Wilmot of the Royal Artillery);
• Lieutenant General Sir S Whittingham (Colonel Bunbury of 67th Regiment sent to command troops at St Lucia; return of troops [not in volume]);
• Printed copy of 'An Act to repeal the Four-and-a-Half per Centum Duties', 1 & 2 Vic Cap XCII

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