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Letters from the Home Office and Treasury on matters relating to Bermuda. Correspondents...
Catalogue reference: CO 37/130
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This record is about the Letters from the Home Office and Treasury on matters relating to Bermuda. Correspondents... dating from 1849 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 37/130
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1849
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Letters from the Home Office and Treasury on matters relating to Bermuda. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:
Home Office (convicts: pardons for good behaviour and illness, sentence mitigations, transportation to Australia, ships charted for conveyance of convicts, clothing supplies, leave tickets, treatment of ill convicts, construction and furnishing of convict barracks, value of labour estimates, expenditure, payment of earnings, conveyance of pensioned military guards and convicts to the Cape of Good Hope, construction of Boaz Island prison, punishment for violent assault against officers, military convict John Cameron, printed notice to convicts concerning public works, John Negus' conditional pardon, pardoned convict George Baxter Grundy's report on abuses in Bermuda's convict establishment, leaves of absence for employees, William Woodriff's pardon, convict's wife Mrs Rose Deehan's petition, report on sickness among convicts, printed notice to convicts concerning discipline, Thomas Fisher's and Michael McCarthy's violent assault against an convict guard, payment of gratuities to 'well conducted' convicts injured on public works, surgeon superintendent reports on health on convict voyages, discrepancies between two notices for convicts, use of disinfectant during cholera outbreak, Richard Wilson's statement regarding the murder of London watchmaker Mr Westwood, alleged mistake in identity of Irish convict John Moran, request that no convicts under twenty years old be sent to Bermuda or Gibraltar).
Treasury (accommodation for customs officers, transfer of intestate Mathew Simmons' property to his daughter Mary Simmons, need for boat to transfer equipment to Boaz Island, payment to the solicitor general, construction of a bridge between Ireland and Boaz Islands, convicts: payment of reserved earnings, passages for the families of convict officers, supply of fuel and stationery, construction of Boaz Island prison, salary of assistant superintendent of convicts, requisition of supplies, expense of Medway and Medusa hulks, construction of a store house, convict guard Augustus Pearman's retirement allowance, lodging allowance for the Roman Catholic religious instructor, second mate Alfred Lloyd's salary and retirement, Commander Hire's retirement allowance, approval for expense of modified convict medical establishment, property escheated to the Crown due to Benjamin Gilbert Paynter's murder conviction, increase of convict guard numbers, payment to George Poynting due to injury, payment of Assistant Surgeon Phillips' passage).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence
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