Despatches from Officer Administering the Government Robert Kennedy (items 1-3) and...

CO 37/97

1836

Despatches from Officer Administering the Government Robert Kennedy (items 1-3) and Governor Major General Sir Stephen Chapman (items 4-43) as well as letters from various offices ( government departments) and individuals. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from offices and individuals is not. Correspondents and subjects covered in 'offices' and 'individuals' are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (lieutenant governor's passage from Bermuda to New York, expenses of transporting convicts to England);
• Board of Trade (opinion to disallow the Revenue Act);
• Board of Ordnance (application by Lieutenant Colonel Crawford to act in the absence of the governor);
• Treasury (governor's repayment of passage to New York, form used for returns of imports and exports, expenses of Vice Admiralty Court due to the seizure of certain slaves, discontinuance of the salary of the Secretary to the Slave Compensation Commission, question of making St. George's a free warehousing port);
• War Office (Lieutenant Mitchell's emoluments);
• Post Office (no objection to allowance of the Post Office Act);

Individuals:

• H Cale (enquiry regarding Robert Kenndy's salary claim);
• John N Harvey (his services, requests an appointment for his son in British Guiana);
• Thomas Hill (enquiry regarding convict John Keating);
• J F Lightbourn (asks for more to be done for 'coloured' people);
• Suzette H Lloyd (supports Mrs Spencer's application for leave of absence for her husband);
• James Rothwell (enquiry respecting Edward Rothwell);
• Aubrey G Spencer, Archdeacon of Bermuda (requests to be removed from the archdeaconry, reports he will not take his leave of absence at present, comments on the instruction of the 'labouring classes both white and coloured');
• Mrs Elvia Spencer (requests leave of absence for her husband);
• Henry Tucker (recommends that the ports of Hamilton and St. George be made free ports, refers to Merchant Charles Grey as someone able to comment on the trade and commerce of Bermuda);
• James Taylor, Deputy Post Master General (requests salary increase)

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