Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals, most of which...

Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals, most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 37/131, CO 37/132 and CO 37/133. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (resolution concerning returns of all civil and military officers and convicts in Bermuda);
• Admiralty (salaries, passages, storing convict supplies, use of Naval land by the Convict Department, convict rations of fish and potatoes, returns required by the House of Commons, forms of medical return, need of small steamer, funerals of dissenters, convicts reserved earnings, Crown graveyards at St Georges and Ireland Island, plan on tracing cloth of a 20 horsepower engine for a proposed tug boat, Mrs Penrose's son, sailing of convict ship Sir Robert Seppings without despatches);
• Colonial Agents (Henry Nutley's pension);
• Council Office (Acts Nos 698, 717 to 733, 734-539, and 741-745 left to operation);
• Board of Trade (Acts Nos 721, 722, and 729 left to operation);
• Foreign Office (passage of four Germans on mail steamer Trent, passage of Hermann Popie, W T Tucker as United States Consul, shipwrecked German from the LZ and Marietta, arrival of liberated convicts at Baltimore and New York);
• Home Office (conditional pardons, medical reports on convicts, estimate for maintaining convict establishment, lunatic convict William Quinlan, passages, convict Robert Simmons case, payment of £4 2s 6d to convict John Jones, convicts attested list not sent, money and property of convict W Smith, convicts conveyed on Sir Robert Seppings, transportation of convicts for 'unnatural' offences, enquiry regarding Thames clerk Abraham Richardson, remuneration of the surgeon of the Diligence, convict John Regan's sentence, property taken from prisoners on conviction, dismissal of Roman Catholic Chaplain Rev Lyons);
• Ordnance (Prison on Boaz Island, demand for supplies for Boaz Island Prison);
• Treasury (salaries, suggested increase of convict's fresh meat ration, retirement and superannuation allowances, buildings for Boaz Island Prison, compensation to solicitor general for professional services, passages of shipwrecked emigrants of Mariettta, use of government boat for works, increased expenditure for Grey Bridge, appointment of Mr Black as Clerk to the Deputy Superintendent, fuel and light allowances, forms of reports of medical treatment, chloride of zinc for convict hospital, returns ordered, expenditure, unauthorised employment of convicts on redoubt at St Georges Island, Lucifer match found in bale of convict flannel clothing, rent allowance, estimate for permanent causeways and bridges to connect Watford Somerset and Boaz Islands, rooms needed for public library, small steamer for Convict Service, residence of deputy superintendent of convicts, requisition for stationery, contract with Cunard for carrying mail between Bermuda and Halifax, pay increases, alteration in mail ship routes between Bermuda and the West Indies, officers rations exchanged for £20 per year, payment of convict gratuities, Governor Elliot's salary arrears, return of aggregate charge for convict maintenance in 1849, expenses for shipwrecked Germans);
• Inspector of Prisons (Mr Thompson's claim to £138 17s for louvre windows for the Boaz Islands Prison);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (£6 5s claim for freight for Trinidad pitch conveyed from Bermuda to Southampton).

Individuals:

• William Ackley (convict Benjamin Hayes);
• F Burdete Black, Overseer (leave of absence, retirement, promotion, claims, re-employment, irregularity as to the body of convict P McGee, occurrences on board the Medway hulk in July);
• M H Davis (enquiry regarding her husband Evan P Davis);
• Commander Henry Hire (return to England, retirement allowance as former Deputy Superintendent of Convicts);
• Charles Harper, Assistant Surgeon (arrival of the Diligence with invalid convicts, remuneration claims, sends address);
• Captain W H Jervis, Deputy Superintendent of Convicts (accepts appointment as Superintendent of Convicts, passage);
• S A Jervis (passage for herself and her children);
• William Polhill Kell (case of convict George Bonting);
• Dr J V Murray, Convict Department Chaplain (statement of services as convict chaplain, requests full salary during leave of absence, applies for salary increase, reports departure);
• Thomas Newman (requests a pardon for his son Thomas Newman);
• Sergeant Charles O'Connor (salary arrears);
• Charlotte Penrose (asks for her son to be placed in the Greenwich school);
• Stilwell (Governor's quarterly salary certificates);
• George Thompson (retirement allowance as mate of the hospital hulk, salary);
• James Williamson (passage for the son of his brother who is a mate of the Dromedary).

Topics

Shipping

Archives and libraries

Clothing

International

Labour

Trade and commerce

Migration

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Transportation

Children

Food and drink

Navy

Pardons

Americas

Disasters and emergencies

Rationing

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns