Correspondence from various government departments (offices), organisations, and...

Correspondence from various government departments (offices), organisations, and individuals, most of which relates to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 321/15, CO 321/16 and CO 321/17.

Offices:

• Admiralty (contagious diseases act);
• Crown Agents (St Lucia civil code; St Lucia Central Sugar Factory);
• Board of Trade (merchant ship Weardale; legality of dues on deck cargoes);
• Law Officers (Central Sugar Factory; consititutional questions);
• Foreign Office (alleged frauds by Mr Eick of German brig Rover);
• War Office (Major General Farren's seat at Legislative Council);
• Colonial Office (post of police magistrate, Calliagua, offered to J H Harwood; position of officer commanding troops in Barbados in Executive and Legislative Councils; reform of Barbados constitution);
• Aborigines Protection Society (case of Thomas Daniel); West India & Panama Telegraph Company (arrears of subsidy).

Individuals:

• Messrs Daniel & Company (Barbados disturbances);
• Henry V Fitzgerald (applying for post at Tobago);
• John Pope Hennessy (claim for half salary due to him as governor of Barbados and of Hong Kong; closure of Town Hall Gaol, Barbados; response to allegations of false statements in his speech at Cork; statements in House of Commons regarding his official work);
• Thomas Daniel Hill (allegations of false statements in John Pope Hennessy's speech at Cork);
• Hargrove & Co (Barbados Railway Extension Bill; date of meeting of legislature);
• Joseph A Haynes (necessity for early meeting of Barbados legislature);
• M F Ommanney (cultivation of crown lands by Central Sugar Factory);
• Sir R W Rawson, former governor (services of Dr Allen in inspecting the Lunatic Asylum);
• H R Semper (administrative and local reform in Barbados);
• George C Strahan, governor, on leave in London (suspension of J R Gooding; procedure in issuring writs for election of new Assembly; power of Executive Council to discharge duties vested in governor and Council);
• P J Hamilton Williams (application for medical appointment in Grenada).

Topics

International

Manufacturing

Mental illness

Railways

Army

Trade and commerce

Asia

Caribbean

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Crown lands and estates

Food and drink

Navy

Americas

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)