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

Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 37/169, CO 37/170, CO 37/171. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government Departments):

• Admiralty (appointment and travel arrangements for Convict Establishment officers, Convict Establishment accounts, water condensing apparatus, lighthouse construction);
• Crown Agents (Convict Establishment accounts);
• Council Office (Bermuda Acts);
• Emigration Office (water condensing apparatus);
• Foreign Office (Appointment of Frederick B Wells as United States Consul in Bermuda);
• Home Office (Convicts: transport to Bermuda, 'invalids', return to England and Ireland, Royal Artillery Guard, responses to petitions, public works, disturbances, recommendation for reward, ship hire, counsel defence for those tried for capital offences, returns of convicts to and from Bermuda and Gibraltar);
• Post Office (uniform postal rate, compulsory prepayment of postage, mail service via the United States, Bermuda Post Office administration);
• Metropolitan Police Office (Payment of uniform by Convict Establishment employee);
• Custom House (Appointment of Thomas Albouy Darrell as Receiver General and Comptroller of Customs);
• Board of Trade (lighthouse construction);
• Treasury (payment of passages to Bermuda, confirmation of various acts, payment and increase of salaries, grant of pensions, public works cost estimates and payments, printing of book of regulations for convict prisons, superannuation estimates, sale of Colonial Secretary land, Roman Catholic Chaplain's book supplies, trials of Convict Establishment employees, statement of supplies sent from the War Department to the Convict Department, lodging money for unmarried officers, shipment of stores [supplies] for the Navy, Engineer Works Department, Convict Department and Convict Hospital);
• War Office (supply of instruments and medicine to the Convict Hospital, appointment of Roman Catholic Priest for the troops, despatch of troops to guard convicts).

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Clothing

International

Army

Trade and commerce

Migration

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Ireland

Construction industries

Navy

Americas

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Prisons