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 37/160 and CO 37/161. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government Departments):

• Admiralty (Acts, appointment and travel arrangements for Convict Establishment officers and their families, Captain Pasco's application for promotion, payments concerning the Siren, misunderstandings between the Naval Clerk of Works and the Convict Department, bedding for Convict Officers, claim of owners of Sir George Seymour, Disbursements for Convict Services);
• Council Office (Confirmation and operation of acts);
• Home Office (convicts: chartering of the Zemindar, mitigation of sentences, convict petitions, request to transfer John Doyle to Spike Island, transportation, personal possessions, clothing, free pardons, 'invalids', 'hopeless condition' of those sentenced to penal servitude, return to England and Ireland, request from Chief Constable of Brighton Police to question convict Samuel Harwood, payment of convict gratuities, promotion of convict officers, difficulty in carrying on penal servitude sentences, requisition for a convict chapel organ, misconduct of convicts during transportation, memorial from three German convicts);
• Post Office (shipment of despatches on convict ship Agra);
• British & North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (claims by convict officers for lost property);
• Treasury (passage allowance, salary of Chief Justice Darrell, Convict William Round, payment for extra medical services expenses during the yellow fever outbreak, salary of the convict chaplain, pensions, Captain Pasco's application for storage allowance, claim concerning the Siren, agents' disbursements, Stationery Act, lodging allowance, salary increase for convict officers, convict estimates, claims by convict officers for lost property, proposed convict hospital, Supply and Appropriation Act, arrears of the Governor's salary, clock for Boaz Island Prison, appointment of matron to the convict hospital approved, Convict Department supplies: medical and meteorological instruments, books, clothing, tools, fuel, and light).

Topics

Shipping

Clothing

International

Pay and pensions

Ireland

Disease

Navy

Americas

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Prisons