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

Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (implementation of Contagious Diseases Act and contribution towards cost of Lock Hospital [several letters], soundings in Carlisle Bay, Act to prevent spirituous or fermented liquors being brought on board Royal Navy ships, erection of additional light on the salient point of the East Coast);
• Crown Agents (cost of treadwheel);
• Medical Department of Privy Council (recommends Florence Nightingale's notes on hospitals and nursing for guidance in the construction and management of hospitals);
• Foreign Office (reports that steps taken at Stockholm to trace 'the Seaman Nelson' have been unsuccessful, appointment of Mr Robert Holley as United States consul at Barbados [several letters], the consul for the Confederation Mr Clairmonte has been granted six months leave and Mr R W O'Neale is acting in his place, Mr D C Da Costa has been appointed Venezuelan consul);
• Home Office (prison rules and treadwheel);
• Land and Emigration Board (land regulations in the Windward Islands);
• Institute of Civil Engineers (appointment of chief engineer);
• General Post Office (statement of the balances on revenue and money order accounts);
• Office of Commissioners in Lunacy (suggestions and instructions issued by the Commissioners of Architects engaged in the construction of lunatic asylums);
• University of London (extension of benefits of the Gilchrist Educational Fund to the Windward and Leeward Islands);
• Board of Trade (acknowledgment of correspondence concerning a return of vessels at Bridgetown and the commercial code of signals, possible imperial contribution towards the cost of a lighthouse);
• Treasury (proposal for placing the Windward and Leeward Islands under a chief governor, application for superannuation allowance from Mr Fraser former comptroller of customs);
• War Office (plans of a lock hospital being constructed at Kildare and lists of furniture and medicine [not in item; sent to Barbados], repayment of cost of items supplied to two military convicts, purchase of commission by Mr G M Outtram, transfer of site of the old Naval Hospital to the colonial authorities, discontinuance of custom of firing guns either in the morning and evening or at noon given refusal of colonial authorities to bear cost)

Individuals:

• Mr M N Bromehead (application for post of superintendent of Public Works);
• Mr John Frederick Bourne (his appointment as superintendent of Public Works);
• Bishop of Barbados (legislation relating to the exercise of spiritual jurisdiction);
• Mr R Bowcher Clarke (comments on the working of the Assistant Court of Appeal);
• Captain Delamere (application for post of chief of Police);
• Mr R D Fraser (application for promotion);
• Mr William Brandford Griffith (application for extension of leave);
• Mr Samuel F Hewitt (application for post of judge of the Assistant Court of Appeal [with numerous enclosures]);
• Mr T Perch (application for extension of leave);
• Governor Rawson W Rawson (application for extension of leave, proposed confederation of the Leeward Islands);
• Mr Thomas Rawson (request for address of Governor Rawson);
• Mr Thomas Rowe, prison chaplain (application for extension of leave);
• Mr Grant E Thomas, president of the Council (application for leave, application for extension of leave);
• Mr William Weekes, St Philip's Parish (request for financial assistance)

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