Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the...

Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the Convict Department and despatches sent from the governor in CO 37/151 to CO 37/153. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

• Admiralty (steamship for convicts and military, Convict Establishment officers' transport, application for hulk at Cork, medical supplies, tonnage for bricks, need for convict labour, fire in the Dockyard, furniture and crew for Colonial steamship, need for Convict Department ship's carpenter);
• Colonial Agent (Mr Redmond's debt to Mr Tucker, audit query on accounts of the late Mr Baille for 1855);
• Council Office (Acts Nos 790 to 802 and 804 to 808);
• Treasury (pensions, Postage Act, Bishop of Newfoundland visitation, reviewing proofs of the Tenados and Thames hulks, payment to the attorney general and solicitor general for services connected to yellow fever, money of convict R Hall, steamship for the Convict Department, increased expense of the Convict Department, surplus supplies from ships transporting convicts, tell tale clocks supplied from Portsmouth Prison, claim of the British and North American Steam Company for conveying convict officers, additional assistance to Receiver General W B Smith, increase of officers required for the Convict Establishment, audit queries into increased salaries, escheated property of the late Joseph Bennett, books for convict chapel library, official books, new scale of convict rations, unexecuted requisitions, iron retorts, Convict Establishment employees appointments, salaries, salary advances, allowances, expenses, superannuations, income taxes, passages, and uniforms);
• Home Office (convicts from Ireland, serious crimes and short periods of confinements of some convicts, list of money due to convicts sent back to Ireland, case of William Darcey, convicts in Irish prisons available for removal to Bermuda, printed notices to convicts, schedule of sentences of transportation, convict conduct, sentences, transport, pardons, petitions, licenses, property and gratuities);
• Chairman of Directors of Convict Prisoners (use of hulks to house prisoners, prison at Boaz Island, recommends Chief Warden of Dartmoor Prison W Head for appointment as Deputy Overseer of Convicts in Bermuda, list of five wardens and eleven assistant wardens recommended for appointment, debt owed by Assistant Warden Thomas Beadle, bricks and slate for new prison buildings, lodging of wardens, books for convicts, disbursements by the governor of Portsmouth Prison for candidates for appointment in convict establishments);
• Foreign Office (case of Patrick Williams said to be held in slavery in Louisiana, assistance given to two Spanish warships in distress, Mr McPhee Lee's appointment as French Vice Consul, appointment of a vice consul for the United States at the port of Hamilton);
• War Department (forwards application from Eliza Lusher, 'a woman of colour', to travel to Sentari (in Turkey) to be a nurse in the military hospital, small steamship for the Convict Department, military appointment for Dr Tucker's son Heber Reeve Tucker);
• Ordinance Department (the insufficient number of convicts in Bermuda);
• Land Board (Mr Farquhar's passage, the hulk Inconstant, need of a ship's carpenter for the Convict Department);
• Government Emigration Agent Liverpool (pay advance to Assistant Warden Thomas Paisley, arrival of convicts wardens for transport to Bermuda, salary advances for wardens, departure of wardens and their families);
• Agency of the British & North American Royal Mail Steam Ships (passages for convict officers and their families, list of wardens by name and a generic list of family members);
• General Post Office (bag of despatches sent to the governor via the convict ship Castle Eden))

Topics

Shipping

Clothing

International

Manufacturing

Taxation

Migration

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Transportation

Ireland

Debt

Disease

Navy

Middle East

Communications

Rationing

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Prisons