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 37/165 and CO 37/166. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government Departments):

• Admiralty (appointment and travel arrangements for Convict Establishment officers and their families);
• Agent (Convict Establishment expenses);
• Board of Trade (Quarantine Act, Lighthouse Maintenance Amendment Act);
• Council Office (confirming Act 835 of 1857, Act 854 of 1857, acceptance of William Thomas Roberts' application for Assistant Schoolmaster in the Convict Establishment, rejection of Charles Abott for teacher position);
• Foreign Office (boarding of American vessels by British ships of war, Henry B Brown's appointment as United States Consul)
• Home Office (convicts: petitions, memorials, discipline, transportation, ship hire, fuel and light allowances, return to England and Ireland, conduct upon return, mitigation of sentences, accommodation, fulfillment of sentences, mail, Naval Works, mistaken identity, need for Presbyterian chaplain, unfitness for labour on Public Works, pardons, threatened unrest on the Medway, rewards for rendering assistance during the 1856 yellow fever outbreak, need of labour, personal property, Prisoners Character Book, clothing, alleged correspondence of convict Jonas Welch, release on licence);
• Law Officers (Rectory appointment of Mr Lightbourne);
• House of Commons (cover sheet for address concerning the 1856 yellow fever epidemic);
• Treasury (copyright duties collection, Convict department: purchase and transportation of various supplies, creation of assistant superintendent position, audit of accounts, rice and oatmeal supplies, ship tenders, employees' travel fares, Dr Hunt's fees for yellow fever assistance, list of books for convicts, gasometer parts, quantity of books and stationery required, supplies from the War Office, employees' salaries, employment of ship's boy on the Thames convict store ship, brass gun for the Siren, provisions estimates for 1859-60, warm clothing, appointment of Warden Frederick Ellen to the proposed new office of Gas Engineer, repairs to Grey Bridge on Boaz Island, convicts' gratuities, appointment of clerk);
• War Office (medicine and surgical instruments for Convict Hospital, Convict Establishment Expenditure Board, Commanding Engineer superintendence over the convict buildings, strength of regiment, removal of small shoal in Somerset narrows, clothing for convicts);
• Board of Health (acknowledges receipt of letter);
• Stationery Office (requests 'Rules for Bermuda');
• Post Office (post office management in Bermuda, delivery of mail);
• The London Merchants and Traders Association (case of Edward Brooks who resigned as assistant warden)

Topics

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Labour

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Trade and commerce

Pay and pensions

Transportation

Weapons

Ireland

Construction industries

Disease

Navy

Official publications

Americas

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns