Offices and Individuals. Letters received from various government offices (departments),...

Offices and Individuals. Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados. Correspondence from the bishop of Barbados for 1840 is bound separately [see CO 28/154]. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (cost of governor's passage, cost of bishop's tour of diocese, warrant for appointment of John Alleyne Beckles as judge of Vice Admiralty Court, availability of steam vessel for the troops);
• Agent (will discuss charter of incorporation of West India Bank with Mr Jones, Reverend W Harte's request for further leave, failure of vaccine lymph, compensation to slave owners;
• Commander in Chief (acknowledges receipt of despatches concerning Sir S Whittingham, enquires if militia and police acts have been assented to, barracks [with brief statements about barracks at St Vincent, Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad, Demerara, Berbice, St Lucia, Dominica, Antigua, and St Christopher], requirement for steam vessel for use of troops);
• Council Office (quarantine);
• Board of Trade (no objection to Act No 697 relating to quarantine, No 698 consolidating and amending the militia laws, No 699 for consolidating the police laws, and No 701 to appoint weighing officers, expresses approval of appointment of district vaccinators in Barbados and recommends similar appointments elsewhere in West Indies, Acts Nos 723 and 725 to be left to their operation, Acts Nos 724 and 726 referred to Treasury [titles of these four statutes not given], discussion of Act No 712 'for preventing the dissemination of Small Pox', Act No 730 'for remitting certain duties on the importation of ice' may be left to its operation);
• Foreign Office (Barbadians enslaved at Texas, request from governor of Martinique for return of four 'subjects of the King of the French' accused of murder who escaped to St Lucia or Trinidad, petition [in French] from widow of William Bryant Worrell of Barbados concerning property left to her which has been confiscated because of her French nationality);
• Home Office (report of the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police on legislation relating to the police force and the militia, report of the inspectors of prisons concerning the prisons in St Vincent and Barbados [not in item], Act No 729 'for the better care and maintenance of lunatics);
• Law Officers (opinion that Act No 702 conferring certain rights on aliens should not be approved as 'it does not accord with the general laws for the naturalisation of aliens in the colonies');
• Treasury (channel of communication with the subordinate governments in the West Indies, expenses incurred by Governor McGregor in respect of the Barbadians enslaved at Texas, expense of providing clothing etc for military convicts sent to the UK, incorporation of chartered banking company in the West Indies, passage of bishop, salary of bishop, request of Octavius Straker and others for payment of allowance due to the late Mr Straker comptroller of customs, escheated property of William Marshall, Captain Hamilton's mission to Texas [concerning Barbadians enslaved there], property of the late William Bryant Worrell [with account of amount realised by the sale of property; see also above under Foreign Office], escheated property of the late John Sandford Pinheiro and Georgiana Pinheiro, escheated property of Abraham Haines);
• Colonial Land and Emigration Office (report on Act No 721 authorising the governor to make regulations for ensuring the health and safety of persons emigrating from Barbados);
• Customs House, Falmouth (receipt for twelve boxes received from HMS Linnet).

Individuals:

• W J Austin (forwards despatch from governor);
• Michael Byrne (property left by brothers Patrick and Bryan Corcoran);
• Thomas Downey (property left by Corcoran brothers);
• Philip W Dodd (following report in The Times that the president of Texas has issued a proclamation requiring 'all persons of colour' to leave Texas before 1 January 1842 suggests that such people should be encouraged to migrate to the British West Indies);
• Thomas Drew (requests address of Sir R B Clarke, solicitor general);
• John S Gaskin (requests extension of leave);
• Robert Grosvenor, Buckingham Palace (acknowledges receipt of congratulatory address to Prince Albert from Barbados);
• William Hamilton (forwards letter for Mr Young of Barbados);
• H Hooton (requests of Sir R B Clarke);
• Reverend W M Harte (salary, leave, future employment);
• J Innes (charter for West India Bank);
• Duchess of Kent (acknowledges receipt of congratulatory address on the marriage of the Queen);
• William Kirby (enquires about his brother Joseph Kirby);
• Mirabeau B Lamar, Executive Department, Republic of Texas (Barbadians held in slavery there);
• Mary Mullan (enquires about her son-in-law Michael Stewart);
• Archdeacon Thomas Parry (Mr Harte's application for further leave);
• Samuel Prescod (memorial and comments on recently enacted legislation to amend the election laws and to regulate the emigration of labourers);
• Charles Phipps (memorial to the Queen together with related correspondence and an account of various applications for assistance or employment made by Phipps since 1837);
• Margaret Rourke (seeking support from her soldier husband);
• H E Sharpe (offers to collect and publish the colonial laws);
• Henry Sealy (seeks assistance);
• Marie Anne Catherine Worrell (seeks property left by her husband [see also above under Treasury]);
• Jonathan Worrell and others (seeking grant of the property of William Bryant Worrell on undertaking to pay any income to his widow);
• Bryan Taylor Young (addresses to the Queen and to Prince Albert following the assassination attempt on the former).

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