Despatches from Governor Lieutenant Colonel William Reid (August-December 1840) as...

Despatches from Governor Lieutenant Colonel William Reid (August-December 1840) as well as letters from various offices [government departments and other organizations] and individuals which relate to matters in the governor's despatches in this volume and CO 37/103. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from offices and individuals is not.

Offices:

• Admiralty (property of Thomas Hanser, training dockyard workmen, gunboats, inability to find a boy from Greenwich hospital school to become the naval teacher in Bermuda, disapproval of the naval storekeepers conduct, organization of a boat flotilla);
• Commander in Chief (stationing of the 76th regiment in Bermuda and Nova Scotia, objections to proposed temporary discharge of local troops, hospital at Ireland Island, attendance of sick soldiers in the naval hospital by their own medical officers, arms training for dockyard workmen, barrack accommodation, proposed volunteer flotilla);
• Council (value of certain foreign coins, Hamilton as a free warehousing port);
• Board of Trade (Revenue Act approved, Pilot Law amendment);
• Foreign Office (mail for the governor);
• Home Office (inspection of invalided convicts before being returned to England, convict expenses, use of convict labour for public works);
• Law Office (Act 558 Larceny unobjectionable, Act 560 Lights and Eaves objectionable);
• Ordnance (barracks, military defence, military gardens, schoolmaster for militia school, instruction to local militia officers, signal post not disturbed by Ordnance, construction of military bells, arms training of dockyard workmen, clothing for local soldiers, proposed transfer of government house in St Georges to Ordnance, military hospital for Ireland Island, additional company of sappers and miners, increase of the garrison, bomb proof hospital accommodation);
• Treasury (supply of Commons journals, Mr Fraser's leave of absence, Act 561 Customs House approval, expense of the Customs establishment, proposed abolishment of shipping dues, requests plan and estimate for lighthouse construction, duties of Customs Department clerk and locker, Halifax and Bermuda mail contract, duties to be collected at sterling rate, value of foreign coin, provisions for sappers and miners, £300 worth of small coins to be sent from Jamaica, sailing boat for Ireland Island);
• War Office (clothing of military convicts, local recruits, money for recruits, height of local troops);

Individuals:

• James Carroll (petition for the recovery of Mrs O'Bryan's property);
• Cox & Co (requests governor's service certificate);
• Joseph Ellender (claim for delivering despatches);
• Lord Foley (Rev William Murray's eligibility for a benefice, Rev Murray's petition);
• Joseph Liveday (fate of convict William Tibbet);
• Lieutenant Colonel McDonald (formation of a settlement of highlanders) [letter not included];
• S Spurr (remarks on Bermuda's affairs, amelioration of local pilots);
• Henry Tucker (grant of a free port);
• James Taylor (denial of justice to him due to a lack of jurors)

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