Letters from the Home Office on matters related to Bermuda. Correspondents and subjects...

Letters from the Home Office on matters related to Bermuda. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Proposition to construct a prison on Boaz Island to replace the hulks;
• Conveyance home of invalided and pardoned convicts;
• Enquiry regarding a convict named William Woodly;
• Enforcement of hard labour on prisoners in the public gaols;
• Difficulty of dealing with teenaged boy convicts sent out to Bermuda;
• Printed copy of Captain Maconochie's mark system of convict management;
• Printed copy of Home Inspector of Prisons William Williams, Inspector of Prisons John G Perry and Surveyor General J Jebb's responses to Captain Maconochie's system;
• Statements of balances due to the Convict Establishments in Bermuda and Gibraltar;
• Pension of an injured convict named Henry Nutley;
• Conveyance of convicts from the United Kingdom to Bermuda and Bermuda to Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania] on the Bangalore;
• Employment of John Belam as Commander of the Medway convict hulk;
• Accounts for provisions supplied to the Convict Establishments in Bermuda and Gibraltar;
• Formation of an organised force for the superintendence of convicts;
• Proposed grant of pardons to various convicts including, but not limited to, John Hardman, George Vickery, George Buster Grundy, and Thomas Young;
• Purchase of Boaz Island;
• Expense of sending framed wooden buildings from England;
• Use of part of Boaz Island for a defensive work;
• 'Spiritual destitution' of Roman Catholic convicts;
• Reception, treatment, and health of an Irish convict named John Mitchel;
• Claim for £27 13s 6d subsistence money from the master of the Eleanor for the conveyance of convicts;
• Enquiry regarding a convict named James Young who died on board the Antelope hulk;
• Expenditure on convict buildings;
• Alleged plan of the Irish Republican Union in New York to take RMS Great Western to Bermuda to free convict John Mitchel;
• Statement of reserved earning due to four convicts;
• Proposed use of wooden convict barracks at Spike Island rather than Bermuda due to the large number of convicts in prisons in Ireland;
• Suggested promotion of Second Mate Lloyd;
• Objections to sending additional Irish convicts to Bermuda;
• Certification that John Mitchel had been sentenced to be transported for 14 years;
• Appointment of a Clerk of Works for the construction of the new prison;
• Account of travelling charges and allowances due to Clerk of Works E Lander;
• Letter from Mrs Charlotte Penrose, wife of Convict Stewart Samuel Penrose, requesting free passage to Bermuda for herself and her children;
• Selection of convicts for removal on tickets of leave;
• Sickness and mortality among Irish convicts.

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