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Despatches from William Reid, governor of Bermuda, together with letters from various...
Catalogue reference: CO 37/107
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- CO 37/107
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1842
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Despatches from William Reid, governor of Bermuda, together with letters from various 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters related to Bermuda. Despatches are described at item level; other correspondence is not and correspondents and subjects are as follows:
Offices:
- Admiralty (employment of 'native' vessels to convey government stores, exclusion of naval expenditure from Blue Book returns, salaries of Vice Admiralty Court officers during war, deepening of the channel leading into St George's Harbour);
- Commander-in-Chief (refusal of garrison chaplain to supply returns);
- Board of Trade (operation of Shipbuilding Act);
- Foreign Office (property claimed by Thomas Hauser's heirs);
- Home Office (settlement of convicts, convicts for military works, non-employment of convicts deepening the channel, Augustin Kennedy's free pardon, wreck of convict ship Sir George Arthur);
- Board of Ordnance (employment of Sappers and Miners in clearing harbour entrance, David McCardell's pension, no objection to Act respecting the purchase of lands);
- Treasury (Customs Salaries Act, Solicitor General Stewart's salary as Acting Attorney General, lighthouse at Gibbs Hill, selection of acting officers in Customs Department, Robert Kennedy's quit rent accounts, Kennedy's salary while absent, salary of registrar of Vice Admiralty Court, conveyance of silver to the colony, reduction of the Customs Establishment, report on Revenue Act);
- General Post Office (cannot undertake charge of a provincial post office);
- Land Board (reply to Immigration Agent's report, Emigration Act);
Individuals:
- Call Martin & Company (requests certification that Colonial Secretary Kennedy's leave absence was sanctioned by the Secretary of State);
- Cox & Company (governor's salary);
- Reverend M Dempsey (offers services as a Roman Catholic priest);
- Robert Kennedy, Colonial Secretary (payment of his salary, quit rent accounts, exclusion from the chance of succeeding to the temporary administration of the government);
- Lieutenant Rothery (applies for appointment as superintendent of convicts);
- John Stewart (attorney general's salary claimed for D Stewart)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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