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 321/73, CO 321/74, CO 321/75, CO 321/76, CO 321/77, CO 321/78, CO 321/79, and CO 321/80. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (treatment of Mr Murphy by the police, Barbados; report of Royal Commission on West Indies, Barbados; confederation of the Windwards, Barbados; land purchase by Governor Sir W Robinson, Barbados; repair of Anglican parsonage from public funds, Grenada);
• Admiralty (Castries Harbour improvements, St Lucia; revocation of Mr Moylan's commission as Admiralty Advocate):
• Agents (Sir C Coode's remuneration for services in connection with Barbados and St Lucia harbours; position of St Lucia Central Sugar Factory; employment of Mr F H Wilcher as Road Superintendent, Grenada and St Lucia; Castries harbour improvements, St Lucia; revision and consolidation of laws, St Vincent, Kingston water supply, St Vincent; employment of Mr A G A van Eelde on Kingston water works, St Vincent);
• Board of Trade (patents, etc, ordinance, St Lucia; industrial property protection convention, St Lucia; weights and measures ordinance, St Vincent);
• Treasury (pension to Mr M Dix, St Lucia; yellow fever investigations by Messrs Moxley and Harrison and government assistance);
• Foreign Office (contraband of war: rules and export of, Barbados; case of Adolf Fries);
• War Office (Act to amend Military Duty Allowance Act 1880, Barbados; pension to J J Meagher, St Lucia; preparation of fortifications and returns, St Lucia);
• West Indian Encumbered Estates Commission (Mount Pleasant Estate claims: Mrs McEwen's case, Grenada; conveyance of Mount Pleasant Estate to Mr Moylan, Grenada);
• Safety Blasting Powder Company (destruction of their blasting powder by military, Barbados);
• West India Committee (erection of police barracks at Grenville, Grenada);
• Royal Commission on West Indies (report of Royal Commission, part II, regarding Grenada, St Vincent, Tobago and St Lucia, which includes: general, audit, treasury and revenue, judicial, prisons and police, public works and lands, medical, education, immigration, and revenue; St Vincent audit system; rum production returns, Georgetown district, St Vincent);
• Local Government Board (yellow fever investigations, St Vincent and Barbados);
• Customs House (Trade Amendment Act 1884, Barbados; Customs Consolidation Ordinance 1884, Tobago);
• Post Office (Post Office Act No 41, Barbados);
• West India and Panama Telegram Company (increased telegram subsidies, Barbados);

Individuals:

• G G Bolton (medical appointment offered to A Bolton, Grenada);
• F B Byar ('compensation' money for two previously enslaved persons ['slaves'] from Barbados);
• R D Baker (case of his nephew, H V Fitzgerald, Grenada, );
• Druces, Jackson, & Attlee (conveyance of Mount Pleasant Estate to Messrs Moylan and Wilkinson, Grenada);
• Du Bonlay, Mackay and Company, & c (St Lucia as seat of government of Windwards);
• C J Engledow (leave: appointment as Acting Stipendiary Magistrate of Tobago; resignation, Grenada and Tobago);
• R J Goldsworthy (Castries Harbour Improvements, St Lucia);
• J F Gresham (application for increase of pay, Grenada);
• W W Hull (application for Windwards Colonial Secretaryship);
• P J Huggins (application for promotion, St Vincent);
• C J McLeod (application for promotion, St Vincent; his departure from the colony without leave);
• Dr O'Carroll (his refusal of appointment as Medical Officer, Carriacou);
• Sir G Robinson (federation of 'lesser Windwards'; Mr McLeod's absence without leave, St Vincent; Castries Harbour improvement, St Lucia; new residence for Lieutenant Governor, St Vincent; Mr Commissiong's promotion, Grenada; Mr Knolly's salary as Acting Administrator, St Lucia; election of new house of assembly, Barbados; Mount Pleasant Estate, Grenada; Kingstown water supply, St Vincent; report of Royal Commission, Part II; administration of 'lesser Windwards' after separation of Barbados);
• H T H Siccama (Kingston [Kingstown] water supply, St Vincent);
• G Trafford (application for chief justiceship of Supreme Court for the Windward Islands Confederation).

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