Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) on matters...

Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) on matters relating to Bermuda. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Admiralty (passages arranged for certain named officials of the Convict Establishment, appointment of Governor Harry Saint George Ord as vice admiral of the Bermudas Islands and their dependencies, appointment of Mr Brownlow Grey as advocate of the Vice Admiralty Court, query regarding engagement of the Danube which recently arrived at Portsmouth with convicts from Bermuda [2 items];
• Agents-General for Crown Colonies (sum advanced on account of Convict Services);
• Privy Council Office (Orders in Council leaving certain numbered Acts to their operation [3 items];
• Foreign Office (appointment of James Attwood as Spanish vice consul, question of provisional registers granted to ships arriving in Bermuda by British consuls in the United States, visit of Confederate steamer Nashville to Bermuda);
• Home Office (action taken on petitions from various named convicts at Bermuda [13 items], removal of 'refractory convict' Lewis Francis [3 items], 29 unnamed life sentenced convicts eligible for removal to UK, alleged plot of convicts on board the True Britain, pardon for Daniel Dickenson, assault on convict Lewis Lewis [2 items], solitary confinement, disposal of convicts, transportation to Western Australia, anomaly in treatment of prisoners sentenced under statute of 1853 [3 items], returns of English and Irish life prisoners recommended to be sent to UK [2 items], convict Thomas Power to be sent to Ireland, concurs in opinion of secretary of state for the colonies that no further convicts should be sent to Bermuda but thinks military and naval authorities should be consulted in view of their need for labour, convicts Amos Young and Michael Desmond to be sent home on grounds of good behaviour, convict Thomas Higgs recommended for mitigation of sentence for giving information about an attempted escape, request for rules and regulations governing convict establishment, inconvenience caused by large numbers of convicts from Bermuda and Gibraltar being sent home on licence, corporal punishment);
• Land Board (application for extension of 99-year lease on a salt pond, conflicting claims to a property escheated to the Crown);
• Law Officers (opinion on question of whether a British subject ordained in the United States could be eligible for ecclesiastical preferment in Bermuda);
• Census Office (Act for taking a census in Bermuda may be confirmed);
• General Post Office (no objection to Act to provide for the establishment of a mail between Bermuda and the UK by way of New York [2 items], complaints from postmaster of Bermuda about local arrangements, errors in letter bill accompanying mail);
• Agency of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Ships (packet service via Halifax);
• Board of Trade (appointment of Mr J Tatem to post of surveyor of shipping [2 items], no objection to 'Act to continue and amend the Acts relating to the Pilotage', provisional certificates as British ships granted by British consuls in the United States);
• Treasury (requisitions of equipment for Convict Establishment [4 items], cost of Convict Establishment, gratuity to warder Thomas Smith, assistant warder William Smith's length of service, payments to Reverend F Rogers and Dr Godet, governor's passage money [2 items], governor's expenses, military accounts, no objection to Act for raising a revenue, salary for deputy comptroller of convicts, allowance to Reverend Murray, allowance to John Newbury, quarters and lodging allowances for officers of Convict Establishment, allowance to William Blackman, pension for James Farquhar [4 items], value of military stores, payment for medical supplies, governor's salary, pension entitlement of H Bance, service of William Smith, future of Convict Establishment, supply of coal, gratuity for J A Thomson, payment for clothing supplied to Convict Establishment, salary of attorney general, reductions in Convict Establishment, medical attendance for overseer, pension for chaplain Reverend Dr Murray, half salary for Mr B Gray, pension for William Blackman, payment to Agents General on account of sums advanced, shipment of stationery and forms, superannuation allowance for John Smith, compensation to various named officers of Convict Establishment on reduction of offices, forage for horse belonging to deputy comptroller, account of deputy commissary general Routh, salaries of foremen, stores for works at Boaz Island.

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