Letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) and...

Letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters related to Bermuda. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (Florida 'negroes' working at the naval yard: proposal for restoring them to their owners, sending them to Trinidad or subjecting them to corporal punishment);
• Board of Trade (consideration of certain Acts);
• Council Office (appointment of Samuel Smith Junior and George Huskisson to the Council, Order in Council disallowing an Act for regulating Customs fees);
• Law Officers (quarrel between the colonists and the governor concerning the placement of the garrison in the church aisles during divine service, question regarding the Revenue Act);
• Treasury (salary of the governor's private secretary).

Individuals:

• Parishioners of Saint George's, headed by John Till (petition complaining of Governor Lumley's decision to place the garrison in the church aisles during divine service, a printed copy of the legal opinions of John Harvey Tucker and Benjamin Dickinson Harvey);
• Mrs Eccles Green (inquiry regarding the fate of her uncle John Green);
• James Christie Esten (payment of his salary arrears from the Powder Fund, requests an interview, his suspension from the Council, departure for Bermuda);
• Edward Ellice (sends a memorial of the Assembly complaining of Governor Sir William Lumley's conduct, includes statements and papers connected with the memorial);
• D'Arcy Strangwayes, Agent (cases of chief justice and two other members of Council who were suspended);
• John Harvey Tucker (his attempt to access the public records).

Topics

International

Army

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Race relations

Navy

Americas

Armed Forces (General Administration)