Letters from offices (government departments and other organisations) on matters...

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

• Admiralty (report on the inability to meet the annual expense of the magnetical and meteorological observatory, Samuel Salter's patent as registrar of Vice Admiralty Court cancelled, inability to promote Lieutenant Hire, inability to recommend non-commissioned marine officers as convict guards, conveyance of mail between Bermuda and the North American provinces, case of convict James Jones whose navy pension had been cancelled, fitting of Medway, plans for convict hulks, passage for Mr Kempe on the Medway, use of a room for Roman Catholic convicts to religious services, sailing of the Medway, stowage on hulks, four candidates for convict guards appointments, accommodation of convicts on the Medway, suggestions concerning a floating dry dock, use of the Gleaner in capturing certain soldier prisoners, passenger count on the Medway, conveyance of convict guards and their wives, steam communication between Bermuda and Halifax, removal of pardoned convicts on war and mail ships, payment for naval stores supplied to the Convict Department, convict labour, confinement of convicts, death of Sergeant John Charters, stowage, ventilation and space on convict hulks, appropriation of new food store for convict purposes, superintendence of lighthouse machinery, quarterly account of biscuits supplied for convicts);
• Council Office (extract from a report concerning An Act for the confirmation of certain marriages in these islands and for other purposes);
• Board of Trade (Act No 652 left to operation);
• Home Office (convicts: form of pardon, convict William Richards' complaint of ill treatment, charges against Tenedos mate Mr Lloyd, amended form of conditional pardons, shipment of clothing, extension of detention as punishment for offences, rules and regulations, convicts Charles Atken and John Jliff, employment, proposal to send additional convicts, suitable employment for invalid convicts, arrangements for accommodation on land, Roman Catholic convict's attendance at hulk chapel should not be compulsory, pardon for John Hardman, fitting of the Medway, proposal to establish a classified list of candidates for special pardon, Mr Kempe's application for free passage, proposed changes in the convict system regarding granting of tickets of leave for good conduct, conveyance of convicts by battleship, account of public money held by convict overseers, proposal to assign one hulk and a priest to Roman Catholic convicts, removal of convicts with tickets of leave to Australia, sailing of the Medway, pardon for Henry Natley, special instructions concerning convicts to be addressed to the governor, religious instruction for Roman Catholic convicts, confirmation of the Act for the punishment of offences committed by convicts in the colony, warrant for withholding pardon for one year for Robert Thorne, 450 convicts sent on the Medway, labour and discipline, enquiry concerning the number of convicts to be received in a year, 25 of the 450 convicts were military convicts, the withholding of John Hardman's pardon, chartering of the Bangalore for the conveyance of 250 convicts, removal of pardoned convicts, destitution of deceased convict guard John Charters' family, warrant appointing the Medway as a place of confinement for convicts, military guard for convicts, estimates for 1848 and 1849);
• Law Officers (Marriage Act should not be confirmed, objection against legality of court does not invalidate sentence in the trial of Benjamin Gilbert Paynter for murder);
• Ordnance (recommendation and appointment of Corporal Thomas Gardiner as a convict guard, no room in Ireland Island buildings for a place for Roman Catholic convicts to worship, arrangements for accommodation on shore for the deputy superintendent of convicts, convicts works under Ordinance Department, no means for enlarging convict accommodation, proposal to use part of the naval storehouses to house convicts);
• Treasury (removal of commissariat chest from St Georges to Hamilton, dispute between colonial secretary and provost marshal respecting the proceeds of certain land, convicts: guards' spirit ration, J Tucker's application for employment, deputy superintendent's £45 annual allowance, remittances to officers' families, officers' balances, books, bill for £31 16s for the collection of laws, increase of the Dromedary and Coromandel assistant surgeons' salaries to £125, salary advances for guards, payment of Mr Punchard's half salary and pension, transfer of convict stores from the Naval Department to the commissariat, suggests having the Ordnance Department supply convict clothing, requisition of medicine, payment of Mr Kempe's salary, rations for convict guards' families while travelling to Bermuda, statement of Lieutenant Fayrer's accounts, additional advantage for men from army out-pension list considered for selection as convict guards, payments of £40 and £100 to Reverend Mantach and Lieutenant Hire, clerks' duties on board hulks, stationery, customs duty on supplies, expenses incurred by recaptured soldiers on board the Gleaner, annual provision estimates, report of the commissioners of Audit of the convict account, payment of Medway guards, absence of provision for fitting the Euryalus and Medway in the convict estimates;
• War Office (suggests modification of rules respecting guards' pensions and pay rates, need for advances for guards' travelling expenses, statement of money advanced to guards);
• General Post Office (post master not entitled to a pension);
• British Association for the relief of the 'extreme Distress' in Ireland and Scotland (acknowledges the receipt of £562 for Irish relief);
• Army Medical Department (suggests alterations to the requisition for medicines);
• Metropolitan Police (requests use of an officer to apprehend Mr Derinzy who was charged with embezzlement).

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