Letters from offices (government departments and other organizations) and individuals...

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

Offices:

• Admiralty (despatches for the Adelaide, chaplain of the dockyard, infringement of quarantine laws by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Captain Charles Elliot's appointment as Vice Admiral, Samuel Salters' appointment of the registrar of the Vice Admiralty Court);
• Council Office (Robinson Tucker's reception as a student of the normal school at Battersea);
• Board of Trade (report on the Revenue Act, Bills of Health);
• Foreign Office (asks whether the exequatur could be issued to United States Consul Frederick B Wells, colonial authorities' lack of authority to detain American citizens on suspicion of slave trading);
• Home Office (confirmation of Act 649, inspector of prisons on acts concerning prison regulations, address of official communication by subordinate convict officers, chartering of the Scotia to convey 300 convicts to be employed in public works, conveyance of 200 convicts with expired sentences on Barrette Junior, C H Picklhorne's pension, propriety of granting rewards for the apprehension of escaped convicts, Edward Oxford's conditional pardon, convict clothing estimates, return of invalid convicts to Bermuda after recovery, abuses in the Convict Establishment, approval of promotions, promotion of Alfred Lloyd, suggests erection of a temporary barrack to house new convicts, F B Black's leave of absence, conditional pardons for 24 convicts, management of convicts on public works, Dr Warner's appointment as assistant surgeon to the Convict Establishment, proposal to send home convicts near the end of their sentence due to a lack of accommodation, reserved convict earnings, Convict Establishment orders, the Mariner to take out stores and take home as many convicts as possible, Ann Brownlie's enquiry concerning property bequeathed to her military convict son James, pardon of 72 convicts);
• Law Officers (Act No 646 concerning the power of justices in salvage cases, land dispute between the colonial secretary and provost marshal);
• Ordnance (report on defences, blasting of underwater rocks by royal marines);
• Treasury (payment of customs duty on troop supplies, Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, Ordnance claim for gunpowder supplied for blasting rocks at the entrance of St Georges' Harbour);
• Land Board (land dispute between the colonial secretary and provost marshal); Trinity House (lighthouse);
• Lloyd's (thanks for information respecting the lighting of the lighthouse);
• British Museum (permission given to duplicate Norwood's Survey of Bermuda);
• State Paper Office (permission given to duplicate the map of Norwood's Survey of Bermuda);

Individuals:

• Thomas Brady (recovery of his uncle's property);
• Ann Brownlie (property left to her son);
• Archbishop of Canterbury (Episcopal authority of the bishop over the dockyard chaplain);
• Cox and Co (requests the governor's certificate of existence for salary purposes);
• John Harvey Darrell (leave of absence - sends his address);
• James Grocott (appeal on behalf of convict Thomas Langley);
• Mrs Elizabeth Kingman (enquiry regarding her convict son George Kingman);
• Bishop of Newfoundland (Episcopal authority over the dockyard chaplain, question of whether marriage ceremonies were a civil contract or a religious ordinance, granting marriage licences, governor's title of 'Ordinary');
• Miss Mary Oughton (enquiry concerning a bequest from Chalot Tucker's will);
• Richard T Tucker, Rector of St Georges (asks for a six month leave extension).

Topics

Clothing

International

Manufacturing

Trade and commerce

Marriage and divorce

Maps and plans

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Weapons

Construction industries

Museums and galleries

Nationality

Navy

Pardons

Wills and probate

Americas

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Prisons