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 37/135, CO 37/136 and CO 37/137. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (objection to proposed coal depot to supply Spanish steamers, returned convict supplies, passage for J H Paul, payment of gratuities to pardoned convicts, despatches sent on convict ship Ascendant);
• Commander in Chief (sentence of prisoner Private John Hindmarsh of the 6th Dragoons);
• Council Office (Acts Nos 740, 746, 747, 750-752, 754, and 755 left to operation);
• Board of Trade (Act No 740, Revenue and Appropriation Act, left to operation);
• Foreign Office (support for proposed coal depot to supply Spanish steamers);
• Home Office (lighting of hulks, 200 additional convicts required, dismissal of Roman Catholic Chaplain Reverend Lyons, discharges, conditional pardons, vaccination of convicts, the Bride charted to convey 200 convicts from Ireland, embezzlement of supplies, Boaz Island Prison buildings, treatment of convicts guilty of 'unnatural' crimes, officers' quarters, supply of vaccine lymph, construction materials, statement of returned convict John Morgan, surplus supplies, conveyance of 300 Irish convicts, commutation of sentences, returned convicts' clothing, convict Michael Daly's sentence, request for statement from convict Harry Rose regarding the murder of J B Rose in 1849, Ascendant chartered for 230 convicts, Convict Establishment estimates, statement of convict Daniel McCarthy reported as untrue);
• Ordnance (buildings at Boaz Island, iron work supplies for prison buildings, request for supplies);
• Treasury (charges for copying assistance, allowance for fuel and light, expenses of military convicts, salaries, gratuities, convict earnings, escheated property of Mary Simmons, estimates of clothing for Convict Establishment, stationery, conveyance of mail between Bermuda and St Thomas, proceeds of land sales, claim of Mr Kennedy for interest, Kennedy versus Trott, accounts of Deputy Commissary General Rayner, payment to convict officers for saving rations, prison works at Boaz Island, expenses on account of pardoned convicts sent to New York, pension for J P Gibson, answers to auditors queries, duty on cattle, lighting Boaz Island Prison buildings with Trinidad pitch gas, claim of Colonial Secretary Robert Kennedy, amounts due to discharged convicts, passage for destitute sailor James Jones);
• Colonial Land Emigration Office (breach of Passenger's Act in the case of the James which conveyed emigrant pauper children and adults while carrying gunpowder on board);
• Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations (receipt of a list of specimens);
• Poor Law Board (breach of Passengers Act);
• Destitute Sailors Asylum (return passage of destitute sailor Joseph Jones, Asylum's pamphlet);
• Trinity House (use of gas instead of oil for lighthouses).

Individuals:

• William Ackley (requests pardon for convict Benjamin Haynes);
• Sarah Ann Belvin (passage to join her brother first mate of Medway hulk);
• Charles Bond, Second Master (arrival in charge of 80 pardoned convicts on the James, salary, return passage);
• James Connor (arrival on leave in charge of convicts on the Lady Chapman, payments to pardoned convicts, return passage);
• Rose Deeham (enquiry concerning her husband convict James Deeham);
• Francis Doyle (requests payment of salary for September 1851);
• William Henry Foster, Convict Department Clerk (salary and allowances);
• George B Grundy (charge against the surgeon of the convict ship Baretto Junior);
• W Lloyd (dismissal as second mate of convict hulk Medway, requests reconsideration of his case);
• Robert Mantach (arrival on leave for health reasons, absent allowances, salary arrears, improvement of health, return passage);
• Lord Bishop of Newfoundland (appointment of clergyman to Smiths and Hamilton Parishes) [letter not in volume, Colonial Office draft response available];
• Sergeant Charles O'Conner, Convict Guard (salary);
• Charlotte Caroline Penrose (states distressed condition, requests ration allowance);
• John Patrick, Quarter Master (arrival in charge of 70 pardoned convicts on the Falcon, list of gratuities due to convicts with convicts' signatures, salary, return passage);
• J H Paul, First Mate Coromandell (arrival of 44 pardoned convicts on the Maria, the convicts' discharge certificates, expiration of leave of absence, return passage);
• Reverend John Arthur Jeaffreson Roberts (applies for vacant rectory of Smiths and Hamilton Parishes);
• Stilwell (Governor Elliot's quarterly life certificates);
• George Thompson (retirement allowance);
• Reverend G Valpy (convict Charles Ford's claim to £2 9s 2d);
• Ann Williamson (suspension of her husband from the Convict Department);
• George Williamson (circumstances under which he was dismissed from the Convict Department, petition for reappointment or a pension).

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