Letter from offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals...

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

Offices:

• Admiralty (petition from Bermudians regarding the route of steamers, appointment of T T Tucker as marshal of the Vice Admiralty Court, institution of a library for dockyard men, Mrs Charters' claim to salary arrears, despatches from governor of Nova Scotia to the governor of Bermuda sent by a merchant vessel, lighthouse, convicts: payment of stores, unavailability of Baretto Junior to transport convicts, medical stores, death of two convicts, cannot confirm Mr Belam as overseer of the Medway, naval stores, inclusion of convict's reserve earning in Naval Department estimates, completion of convict hospital, shipment of Bermuda prison, invalid convicts, fitting the Tenedos as a hospital hulk, convict bedding and medicines, provisions, payment of Mr Belam's passage home, attempted rescue of convict Mitchell);
• Colonial Agent (payment of injured convict Henry Metley's pension);
• Council (Mr Musson's appointment to the Council, Customs Duties Act 685 assented to, regulation of places to which convicts may be sent, Acts left to operation: 668, 670 to 674, 676 to 680, 682, 683, 687 to 690, and 686);
• Board of Trade (confirmation of Acts 675 and 685);
• Foreign Office (alleged attempted rescue of convict John Mitchell by friends based in the United States);
• Ordnance (need for convict mechanics, proposed employment of Lieutenant Ward for the Boaz Island works, appointment of Clerk of Works Lander to be superintendent of the construction of the new prison, communication between Boaz and Ireland Island, expense of prison buildings on Boaz Island, return of mistakenly sent papers, levelling of site for the proposed prison);
• Treasury (directions for sending convict service provisions, employment of Roman Catholic clergymen, expense of using the Gleaner to pursue fugitive soldiers who had escaped from the Hamilton gaol, expense of fitting the Medway hulk, payment to J R Rigby for a cask of Ledoyen's disinfecting fluid, payment of medical supplies for convict services, sick convicts, provision of stores, oil and lamps requisition, construction of a convict prison at Boaz Island, convict accounts, auditors report, convict clothing requisition, purchase of Watford Island, employment of Royal Engineers officers to oversee the prison construction, quantity of fibre coir, customs establishment, appointment of a Roman Catholic priest, dates of convict guard Charles Charters' departure and death, proposition of supplying the governor's bread from the commissariat rejected, buildings and water tanks on Boaz Island, approval of payment made to individuals as compensation for having to leave Boaz Island, hiring of carpenters to build a timber bridge between Boaz and Ireland Islands, payment of convict guard John Charters' salary arrears to Mrs Ann Charters, convict guard Pearman's retiring allowance, convict accounts queries, Isaac Cooper's retiring allowance, Mr Voules' bill, appointment of Mr Harvey as assistant colonial receiver general);
• War Office (Lieutenant J Smith's appointment as a convict guard on the Medway, entitlement of convict guard Charters' widow to his pay);
• Quarter Master General's Office (map of Boaz Island) [not included in volume; copies sent to the governor];
• General Post Office (despatches forwarded on the Britannia).

Individuals:

• A Belam (convict guard John Charters' dates of embarkation and death);
• Timothy Burnes (convict service employment application);
• Mrs Anne Charters (requests assistance and payment of her late husband's salary);
• Sir T Edward Colebrooke (George W Traill's compensation claim for land taken for government purposes);
• Mrs Rose Deehan (requests passage to join her convict husband);
• Lieutenant Fayrer (passage from Bermuda);
• Patrick Fallow (enquiry respecting his brother John who had lived with Governor Elliot in 1846 in Texas);
• Benjamin Gibbs Mitchell (requests to see certain property records, complaint concerning certain legal proceedings);
• Thomas Newman, convict (petitions to be sent to another colony where he could earn money for his family);
• Rev Henry A O'Shea (application for the Roman Catholic chaplaincy, declines chaplaincy);
• Lieutenant William Whitfield (requests repayment of advance given to convict guard Doyle);
• Bishop N Wiseman (replies to an enquiry regarding O'Shea's application for the Roman Catholic chaplaincy);
• William Whiteing (enquiry respecting convict guard W H Fletcher).

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