Despatches from Robert Macgregor Stewart (January to June) and Joscelyn Heneage Wodehouse...

Despatches from Robert Macgregor Stewart (January to June) and Joscelyn Heneage Wodehouse (July to December), successive governors of Bermuda, together with letters received from various 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals relating to Bermuda sent during the year. Despatches are described at item level; other correspondence is not, and correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (passage for the 'lunatic' G Harvey, the arrival of the Chilean Cruiser Zenteno at Hamilton Harbour, the Pilotage Bylaws Act 1907, cost of living in Bermuda);
• Foreign Office (parcel post agreement with the United States, United States head tax on immigrants from Bermuda, remission of the head tax in the United States);
• Home Office (maintenance of a 'criminal lunatic' at Broadmoor, regulations governing certificates of naturalisation in the United Kingdom, refusal to remove G Harvey to Broadmoor);
• Board of Trade (liability of the colonial government for damages done to the Danish Steamer Egholm, the Wreck and Salvage Bill, report of the cables committee on the establishment of wireless telegraphy stations in Bermuda, electric lighting regulations);
• War Office (pension to be paid to G Harvey, revision of fixed defences at Bermuda, resignation of governor R M Stewart, recommendation of J H Wodehouse to be governor);
• British Medical Association (section 7 of the Medical Registration Act 1905);
• Halifax and Bermudas Cable Company (wireless telegraphy in Bermuda and Jamaica);
• National Electric Signalling Company (establishment of a wireless telegraphy station);
• Phoenix Assurance Company (objections to the Insurance Act 1907);

Individuals:

• H F C Prinsloo and other ex-prisoners of war (claim to compensation and return to Africa);
• Messrs Able and Imray (refusal to issue the Electric Signalling Company with a wireless telegraphy license);
• T M Dill (the status of the Bermuda Electric Light, Power and Traction Company);
• J B Smith (complaint against H C Gollan)

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