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 321/51, CO 321/52, CO 321/53, CO 321/54, CO 321/55, CO 321/56, CO 321/57, CO 321/58, and CO 321/59. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (health of Barbados);
• Agents (Castries harbour, St Lucia; Central Sugar Factory Company, St Lucia; Kingstown Jetty, St Vincent; improvement of Carlisle Bay, Barbados; W H Thackeray, Grenada; Dr Barry, St Vincent; passages for family of Pentland, Grenada);
• Board of Trade (agreements between 'masters' and seamen, Barbados; office allowances for shipping master, Barbados);
• Treasury (relief of Barbadians by consul at St Thomas [labour riots at St Croix]; case of the Virginius, Barbados; salary of governor of Windward Islands; pension of Mr Armstrong while employed on a temporary commission, St Lucia; Office of Shipping Master at Bridgetown, Barbados; compensation claim of E H Musson, auditor of St Vincent);
• Foreign Office (repatriation of labourers from St Croix, Barbados; repatriation of certain inhabitants from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Africa, Barbados; detention of the British sloop Mercy);
• War Office (return of troops, Barbados; office for employment in Grenada; rifles sent to Volunteer Force);
• Local Government (Vaccination Ordinance, St Lucia);
• Philatelic Society (alleged malpractices at the Post Office, St Vincent; sale of stamps by postmaster, St Vincent);
• West India Committee (return of white troops, Barbados; abolition of tonnage dues, Tobago; Distillery Ordinance, St Vincent; financial condition of St Vincent);
• Post Office (sale of obsolete stamps; Post Office Ordinance, 1881);
• School of Mines (specimens of ore from island of Carrouau);
• Custom House (Trade Ordinance, 1881);
• Pharmaceutical Society (Sale of Drugs and Poisons Ordinance);
• Kew Gardens (tobacco cultivation; coffee and cinchona cultivation);
• Society for Propagation of the Gospel (Codrington College, Barbados);

Individuals:

• J Armstrong (his pension, St Lucia);
• F G Atkins (application as medical officer, St Vincent);
• Dr C G Brown (Mr Hatton, Grenada);
• H B Beckwith (spirit license, Grenada);
• Archbishop of Canterbury (Bishopric of Barbados);
• J W Carrington (Chief Justiceship, St Lucia; extension of leave);
• O Chadwick (temporary employment, Grenada);
• J Choppin (new edition of the laws, St Vincent);
• C Cox (application of Police Magistrate);
• J H Collymore (resignation, Barbados);
• P D Davis (claims against colonial government, Tobago);
• A W Duncan (condition of the roads, Grenada; botanic garden);
• M P Duke (application of medical officers);
• Sir J Fayner (snake bites);
• S J Fraser (loss sustained by him by not being allowed to nominate his locum tenens durring vacation leave);
• C O Groom, Napier, Prince of Mantua and Montserrat, and Ann Groom, Duchess of Mantua and Montserrat (complaint respecting an estate, Tobago);
• G A Gentle (encroachments on Glebe Land);
• R Goldsworthy (smuggling of rum from Martinique, St Lucia);
• M Gillespie (memorandum on finances, Tobago);
• J Hurst (complaint against colonial postmaster, St Vincent);
• C Hunt (charge of arson against E Knight and others, Barbados);
• Colonel Harley (Government House furniture, Grenada);
• J Kirkpatrick (transfer to British Guiana, St Vincent);
• J M Montaith (application of medical officer, St Lucia);
• J C McCrombie (complaint against administrator, St Lucia);
• J B Moens (remittances for postage stamps, St Vincent);
• L A Marrast (resignation, Grenada);
• Bishop Mitchinson (Reverend Bunbury);
• Stanley Gibbons & Co (purchase of postage stamps, Barbados);
• J F Witze (medical application, Grenada).

Topics

Common land

International

Manufacturing

Labour

Public disorder

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Food and drink

Navy

Crime

Americas

Communications

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)