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:

• House of Commons (hurricane, police magistrate Massiah, Contempt of Court Act);
• Crown Agents (Savings Bank investments, Public Works loan, Lady Griffith's annuity, Colonial Bank note security);
• Privy Council (Colonial Attorneys Relief Act);
• Law Officers (Colonial Attorneys Relief Act);
• Treasury (hurricane loans, Colonial Bank note guarantee fund, Lady Griffith's annuity, Colonial Loans Act);
• Foreign Office (failure of United States meteorological stations to notify approach of hurricane, anti yellow fever serum, reciprocity with United States of America [several letters], customs duty on goods from Cuba and Porto Rico, customs tariff, Venezuelan president);
• Home Office (Mines Act);
• War Office (anti typhoid vaccine, command of troops in Barbados);
• General Post Office (telegraph rates and routes, Lady Griffith's annuity, West India Mail Service);
• Inhabitants of St Michael's parish (hurricane relief);
• West India Committee (Codrington College, Hurricane Loans Bill);
• Co-operative Union, Manchester (the co-operative movement in Great Britain);
• Colonial Bank (note security);
• Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Codrington College);
• Manchester Chamber of Commerce (reciprocity with the United States of America);
• Belfast Chamber of Commerce (reciprocity with the United States of America);
• London Chamber of Commerce (reciprocity with the United States of America);
• Bradford Chamber of Commerce (reciprocity with the United States of America);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (appointment of agricultural lecturer);
• London School of Tropical Medicine (malaria investigation, specimen of 'Barbados leg').

Individuals:

• Mr M Butel (slave compensation for Fairy Valley and Newcastle Estates);
• Mr G Carrington (loan to erect sugar factory);
• Mr G H Croney (cases of Easty v Sinckler and Croney v Easty);
• Mr J A Cumberbatch (petition for pension);
• Archbishop of Canterbury (appointment of the Right Reverend W P Swaby as bishop of Barbados);
• Colonel J Elliott (grant to widow and daughter of G J Lawrance);
• Mr J Elvins (application for passage to England);
• Mr Nathaniel Giles (proposal for raising force in the West Indies for the South African war);
• Mr Charles Heneage (action against Sir James Shaw Hay [several letters]);
• Mr J H Howard and others (petition concerning land ownership);
• Captain C R Harris (sugar industry);
• Mr G B Hudson (application to Royal Bounty Fund for Mrs A J Pile);
• Mr A Howard (accepts conditions of appointment as lecturer in agricultural science, passage arrangemens);
• Blanche and Frances Pender (claim to property);
• Mr William Prescod (seeking assistance to repair hurricane damage);
• Mr W P B Shepherd (central sugar factory);
• Ward, Bowie & Company (case of Heneage v Hay [several letters]).

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Americas

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Disasters and emergencies

Farming

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Mining and quarrying