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. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices: Admiralty (new plan of routes for the West India Contract Packets, bishop's travel within diocese); Agent (submits requests from proprietors for extension of periods for repayment of loans for hurricane relief and of mortgages, possibility of surplus moneys from slave compensation funds being devoted to a hospital for the 'sick poor', asks if hospital legislation has been sanctioned); Board of Trade (opinion on Colonial Possessions Act, and on Act No 792 to amend 'an Act for laying a duty on goods exported from and imported into this Island'); Foreign Office (request from United States minister for the opening of the port of Speight's Town to US vessels); Home Office (no objection to Act No 782 'for the care and maintenance of Lunatics', comments of inspectors of prisons on new rules for the 'houses of correction' at Barbados); Law Officers (opinion on Act No 804 'to enable commissioners for trying offences upon the sea ...); Treasury (salaries of Mr Felix Bedingfield and Mr W M Clinckett, opening of port of Speight's Town to US vessels, petition from directors of the West India Bank seeking modification to the conditions of their charter, memorial from proprietors seeking extension of period for repayment of loans, travel of bishop and staff within diocese, application of surplus slave compensation fund to hospital); Royal Mint (legislation consolidating the laws concerning offences relating to coin); General Post Office (leave of absence granted to postmaster) Individuals: William Allen (asks when William Frewen was appointed surveyor general of Barbados and Antigua); Bishop of Barbados (report of visits within his diocese, ecclesiastical returns required from clergy); Alexander Connor (seeking employment as stipendiary magistrate); Thomas P Edwards (seeking information about property of his late uncle Thomas Edwards); John Gaskin (extension of leave); Reverend R F King (request for remuneration for duties performed during bishop's absence); Reverend Charles Lawson (his salary as archdeacon, his passage allowance); John Masterman (requests meeting about charter of West India Bank); Captain James Murphy (expresses his thanks for relief from fine imposed upon him); Charles Phipps (request for colonial appointment); William Rothery (requests copies of Acts passed in 1715 and 1821 relating to colonial duties in connection with the case of the Portuguese ship Thirteenth of June); John Sealy (extension of leave); George Whitla (taxation of proprietors [with extracts from the Barbados Globe and Barbados Mercury giving report of the Finance Committee]; B Walroud (extension of leave); George Wilson (seeks information about a Mr Whitley).

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