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 321/43, CO 321/44, CO 321/45, CO 321/46, CO 321/47, CO 321/48, and CO 321/49. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (the constitution, Barbados, franchise);
• Admiralty (entertainment of governor on board the HMS Tenedos; St George's harbour, Grenada);
• Agents (Gouyave jetty, Grenada; debt of Mr Thackeray, Grenada; salary due to Mr Thackeray, Grenada; passage expenses of Mr Thackeray, Grenada; debt of Captain Jydd, St Vincent; code of civil procedure, St Lucia);
• Board of Trade (wreck inquiries, Tobago; case of the ship St James, Barbados; application of Captain Kirkham, a shipping master, Barbados; destitute Barbadian, J Hartman, charged with threatening the master of the ship Moss Glen of St John, was detained without seeing authorities or being aware of charge against him, and who had previously complained about the master of the ship; foreign deserters, draft ordinance, St Lucia; wreck amendment ordinance, St Lucia; wreck inquiries, Grenada);
• Treasury (duties on reprints of British copyright, Barbados; expenses incurred by HM Consul at St Thomas due to destitute Barbadians; salary of William Robinson as Governor; passage of William Robinson; copyright, St Vincent);
• Foreign Office (expenses incurred by HM Consul at St Thomas due to destitute Barbadians; Foreign Deserters Ordinance, St Lucia; postal rates with French colonies, Barbados and St Vincent);
• Home Office (hours of sleep in convict prisons, Barbados; case of Dr Shannon, Grenada, who had been recently tried in the Supreme Court of Judicature in Grenada on a charge of shooting with intent to murder and was acquitted on grounds of insanity and ordered to be confined during the Governor's pleasure in jail, Whitehall states that if the case had occurred in England, he would be removed to a lunatic asylum, probably to Broadmoor);
• War Office (position in Legislative Council of the General Officers Commanding the Troops, Barbados; Military Duty Allowance Act, 1880, Barbados; yellow fever and removal of white troops, Barbados; Sergeant Potter, no objection to his appointment as Senior Sergeant of Police, on the conditions stated);
• Tobago Steam Ship Company (inter-circular communication, SS Dawn; exemption of the Dawn from dues, etc at Barbados; harbour dues; mail service in Tobago; levying of harbour and tonnage dues, Tobago);
• West India Committee (supplementary expenditure, St Vincent; withdrawal of white troops, Barbados);
• Post Office (monthly attested postal accounts, St Lucia; Postal Union Act, 1881, Barbados; Postal Union Ordinance, 1881, St Vincent);
• Philatelic Society (complaints against Colonial Post Office, St Vincent);

Individuals:

• J Armstrong (pension, St Lucia);
• Richard A P Bibby (application as escheater general, Barbados);
• J M Barry (medical application in the Grenadines, St Vincent);
• J Cook (Attorney Generalship, Barbados);
• J Clements (Police Library Fund, Barbados);
• P D Davis (his suspension, Grenada; St George's Harbour, Grenada);
• R W H Duncan (duty on cocoa, Grenada);
• J Fleming (extension of leave, Barbados);
• Sir J Fayler (snake bites, St Lucia);
• Rev G Gentle (St Patrick's Glebe Land, Grenada);
• Prof Halford (snake bites, St Lucia);
• Rev Inglis (application of W Ross as Headmaster of Grammar School, St Vincent);
• Macfarlene & Co (application of W Peters as Harbour Master, St Lucia);
• J McCall (steam communication, Tobago);
• W Robinson (harbour improvements, St Lucia; Bowmanston spring, Barbados; salary during leave, Barbados, postmastership, Barbados; stoppage of labourers wages for work 'improperly performed', Barbados; extension of the franchise, Barbados; The Provost Marshal Bill, Barbados; medical application at Carriacou, Grenada);
• A Shears (medical application, Tobago);
• Stanley Gibbons & Co (remittance for stamps, Tobago);
• Whitfield, King & Co (remittance for stamps, Tobago);
• S Yearwood (claims of 'consignees lien' on property).

Topics

International

Labour

Mental illness

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Debt

Disease

Crime

Communications

Education

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Prisons