Letters from various offices [government departments] and individuals which relate...

Letters from various offices [government departments] and individuals which relate to matters in the governor's despatches in CO 37/126, CO 37/127, and CO 37/128. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (Boaz Island prison construction supplies, passages of Samuel Penrose and family, employment of ships to convey convicts, mail conveyance, expenses of the Medway convict hulk, freight costs, sickness in the convict hulks, Bishop of Newfoundland's claim of authority over the dockyard chaplain, James Osbourne's conduct on board the Baretto Junior, stores for the Tenedos hospital ship, appointment of deputy superintendent of convicts, appointment of an additional assistant surgeon, compensation claim of the agent victualler for damage done to his boat by a party of convicts, statement of convict weekly provision allowance, passage for Assistant Surgeon H J Phillips);
• Agents (Henry Nuttey's pension);
• Council Office (approval of an Act concerning the protection of British copyright);
• Board of Trade (comments on Bermuda Acts Nos 698 repealing import duty acts, 699 to regulate the importation of books, 700 customs revenue collection, 701 imposing import duties, 702 for appointing revenue officers, 703 to regulate the performance of quarantine, 712 relating to merchant seamen in Bermuda vessels, 713 for better pilotage regulation);
• Ordnance (Boaz Island prison construction, construction of a causeway and draw bridge between the main island and St George's, number of convicts allocated to the Engineer Department, supplies for construction work at Boaz Island);
• Inspector of Prisons (hard labour machine, distribution of printed convict notices, Boaz Island prison construction: cost of additional cells, cast iron sashes, iron handles, tonnage for louvre windows);
• General Post Office (offers no objection to the Post Office Regulation Act, delivery of mail to St Georges rather than Hamilton);
• Army Medical Department (comments on the appointment of an additional assistant surgeon);

Individuals:

• Atkins & Andrew (enquiry about Alfred M Lloyd officer on the Thames hulk);
• Joseph Bird, former convict (claim to £3 19s 7d, requests assistance);
• Joseph Bullen (enquiry regarding the alleged deaths of quartermasters Robert Bullen and William Kemp);
• H Burdett Black (control of convicts conducting public works);
• Mrs Apollonia Clarke (enquiry about her husband convict Lewis Clarke);
• Mrs Davies (destitution caused through neglect by her husband convict guard Evan Davies);
• John Greve (requests employment in the convict establishment);
• J W Glanfield (officer on one of the hulks William Farrow);
• Grey & Sons (case of Kennedy v Trott);
• Commander George Goldfinch (requests passage money, resigns deputy superintendent of convicts position);
• George Baxter Grundy, former convict (charges of misconduct in the convict establishment);
• R Keate (recommendation for Henry Phillips for appointment as assistant surgeon);
• Alfred M Lloyd (retirement, superannuation allowance, pay arrears, leave of absence);
• Mrs Charlotte Penrose (transport of household furniture, gives the ages of her children);
• Henry John Phillips (accepts the appointment of assistant surgeon, passage allowance);
• William B Ricretts, Quartermaster (requests transfer to England);
• James Shirley (enquiry about his son John Shirley who stowed away on a ship and was kept against his father's wishes in the service of Hyland and Smith of St George, cost of his son's passage back to Glasgow);
• Stilwell (requests the governor's salary certificate);
• James Stares (debt owed by the wife of convict guard George Williamson);
• James Twining (requests passage for a distressed widow);
• Robert Walker (petition on behalf of his convict son);
• John Wright (property of deceased Richard Shearsby).

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