Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and...

Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 321/34, CO 321/35, CO 321/36, CO 321/37, CO 321/38, CO 321/39, CO 321/40 and CO 321/41. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (aid; procedure in financial matters in Barbados);
• Admiralty (contagious diseases hospital, Barbados);
• Agents (defalcations of W Shaw, former Treasurer of St Vincent; code of civil procedure, St Lucia; passage of W Thackery, Grenada);
• Council (code of civil procedure in St Lucia; appeals from Royal Court of St Lucia);
• Board of Trade (Tonnage Dues Ordinance, St Vincent, 1880; Quarantine Bill, Barbados; Wreck Inquiry Ordinance, St Vincent; charges made by shipping waste at Bridgetown, Barbados, for Clerical Assistance; Merchant Shipping Protection Act, Barbados; case of the ship St James, Barbados);
• India Office ('Serpent' Bites, St Lucia, remedies to be used; immigration);
• Treasury (reprints of British copyright works, Tobago; financial returns in Grenada; salary of Grenadian Governor in Chief);
• Foreign Office (extradition of fraudulent bankrupts);
• War Office (appointment of Superintendent of Public Works in Barbados; appointment of Senior Sergeant of Police in St Vincent; military prison in St Vincent; Lieutenant W W Skinner, Barbados; application of Sergeant J McIntosh as Senior Sergeant of Police, St Vincent; rebate of customs duties on articles for use of troops, Barbados; Army Discipline and Regulation Act, 1879, Barbados; military prison, Barbados);
• West India Committee (affairs in Tobago; finances and proposals from Lieutenant Governor of Tobago; proposed export tax, Tobago; financial affairs and Mr Errington's motion on the affairs of Barbados);
• Post Office (opening of mail for Trinidad by Governor of Barbados; Intercolonial Money Order System, Barbados);
• Barbados Railway Company (Railway Act);
• Inland Revenue (Stamp Duty Order, 1879, Tobago);
• Colonial Office (official representation on the Executive and Legislative Councils, St Vincent);
• Church of Scotland (religious endowments, St Vincent);
• Spirit Dealers in Grenada (Rum Duty Ordinance);
• Registrar of Friendly Societies (Friendly Societies Act, Barbados);
• Local Government Board (Quarantine Law, Barbados);
• Civil Service Committee (Mr H Thackery, Grenada);
• West Indian Incumbered Estates Commission (revised table of fees, Grenada);

Individuals:

• Chief Justice Armstrong (leave or permission to retire, St Lucia);
• Sir Henry Bulwer (application as Governor, Barbados);
• William S Byrne (application of District Medical Officer, Grenada);
• R A P Bibby (application for post of judge of Assistant Court of Appeal, Barbados);
• H L Byng (compensation claim, Tobago);
• Revd J Clarke (half pay during extension of leave, Barbados);
• Alfred Cantin (District Medical Officer, Grenada);
• D B C Callum (medical application, St Vincent);
• O Chadwick (Gouyave Jetty, Grenada);
• A D Davis (complaint against colonial government);
• J Fleming (amalgamation of offices, Barbados);
• Freshfield & Co (Barbados Railway Company);
• Goldsworthy (half pay as Administrator of St Lucia);
• W Groom (West Indies Encumbered Estates Court, Tobago);
• E K Moylan, Attorney General (revision and compilation of laws of Tobago; complaint against him by Captain Marshall);
• Captain Marshall (charges against him as Inspector of Police, Tobago, and his dismissal);
• Susan Maclean (death of her father, Mr Charles R Maclean, St Lucia);
• Walter Mornington (Police Magistracy, Barbados);
• Lt Col O'Brien (appointment as Adminstrator, St Lucia);
• W Robinson (half salary of Governor of Windward Islands, Barbados);
• J Reid (application of Dr Anderson as District Medical Officer, Tobago);
• G Strahan (application of W G C Pile to Legislative Council, Barbados; proposed abolition of post of Provost Marshal, Barbados; Mr Engledow, Grenada; application of Stipendiary Magistrate, St Lucia; Legislative Council, Barbados);
• H Thackery (resignation, Grenada);
• F C Williams (application for post of Chief Justice);
• J H Ward (Commission of the Peace, Grenada).

Topics

Shipping

Government finances

International

Railways

Army

Taxation

Migration

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Construction industries

Food and drink

Friendly societies

Navy

Communications

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Prisons

Local Government