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 37/156 and CO 37/157. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• Acts (sanctioning of Acts Nos 809, 813, 815, 822, 811, 812-814, 816-821, 823 and 824);
• Admiralty (convict transport ship conversion, appointment and travel arrangements for Convict Establishment officers and their families, engineer for the Siren, furniture for new colonial steamer, loss of mail packet, convict discipline, convict gratuities, appointment of Queen's Advocate Duncan Stewart, report on controversy between Naval and Convict Departments, Siren accounts for charts, convict officers at Ireland Island, surplus supplies of Sir George Seymour);
• Colonial Agent (late Mr Baillie accounts audit query);
• Council Office (Acts Nos 810-822, 809, 815, 824, 823);
• Foreign Office (rescue of the crew of the Eagle, E B Todds' appointment as Spanish Vice Consul);
• Home Office (conditional pardons, nonfulfilment of promises for appointment in the Convict Department, remission of sentences, grant of licences, charge of Prison Works, six month remissions for convicts who helped during a fire, release of convicts, misconduct of prisoners on the Castle Eden, disapproval of deduction from convicts' gratuities for passages to England, convicts needed for Naval Works, grant of free pardons, convicts returned home before the end of their sentences, payments to F Dry, application of Walter Wilcocks for a free passage to Bermuda, convicts sent home on medical grounds, convicts from Ireland, property of deceased convicts, convict transporter Norman Morris);
• Land Board (lack of ship in Liverpool to take convict officers to Bermuda);
• Law Offices (questions related to the dissolution of the Bermuda Legislature);
• Agency of British & American Steam Ship Company (cost of contract passage in chief cabin, cost of passage from Halifax to Bermuda);
• Post Office (postage on letters of subordinate convict officers);
• Custom House (registry of the Siren at Bermuda);
• Lord Lieutenant of Ireland James Matheson (delay of the Norman Morrison);
• Board of Trade (Act Nos 815 and 809, report concerning the Siren);
• Treasury (appointment and salaries of Convict Establishment employees, gratuities for extra services, Convict Department supplies, money due to returned convict Robert McKee, payment to Attorney General for investigation into the conduct of the Convict Department, passage allowance, stationery requisition, management of convict supplies, charges related to the Siren, pension applications, British copyrights, exertion money to convict officers, housing allowance, approval of Act No 823, blasting powder for Boaz Island);
• War Department (repairs to prison buildings, Convict Department use of military buildings at Boaz Island, report on defences of Bermuda, microscope for Convict Department, control over assistant wardens during passage, appointments to Convict Department, a company of sappers and miners sent to Bermuda)

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