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

CO 321/92

1885

Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 321/82, CO 321/83, CO 321/84, CO 321/85, CO 321/86, CO 321/87, CO 321/88, CO 321/89, CO 321/90, and CO 321/91. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (improvement of Castries Harbour, St Lucia; defenceless state of St Lucia; target practice of North American squadron, St Vincent);
• Agents (ordinance to raise loan for improvements of Castries Harbour, St Lucia; remittance of funds to Crown Agents by Colonial government, St Vincent and Grenada; Sir J Coode's report on Castries Harbour improvements, St Lucia; report on Central Sugar Factory, St Lucia; appointment of Mr Jickell as General Foreman, Harbour Works, St Lucia; supervision of erection of new hospital, St Lucia; appointments in connection with harbour works, St Lucia; ironwork & c for market sheds, St George's, Grenada; Castries Harbour works: salary of consulting engineer, St Lucia; method of supplying Crown Agents with funds, Grenada; raising of funds for harbour works and Castries Harbour loan; St Lucia);
• Council (disallowance of Acts Nos 7 and 14 of 1884-1885, Barbados);
• Board of Trade (action of the colonial treasurer as regards the derelict Don Juan, St Lucia; law as to wrecks, shipping casualties, and salvage, St Lucia; lights of Castries Harbour, St Lucia);
• Law Officers (act legalising marriage with deceased wife's sister, Barbados; status and authority of Court of Appeal, Windwards);
• Treasury (advances in aid of sugar planters, Barbados);
• Foreign Office (repatriation from Germany of Edwin Theophilus Drakes, born at Bridgetown, Barbados, and in the 'lunatic asylum' at Allenberg, Germany; repatriation of 'pauper lunatics' of German nationality, Barbados);
• Home Office (list of candidates for the post of Gaoler [jailer] for Grenada prison)
• War Office (raising of volunteers in the West Indies, Grenada; defence of Castries and defence works, St Lucia; storage of powder, etc, belonging to private individuals in military powder magazine, Barbados);
• Pharmaceutical Society (Apothecaries Ordinances, St Lucia);
• King's Inns, Dublin (resolutions respecting E K Moylan, Grenada; report of Committee on Mr Moylan's case, Grenada);
• Marriage Law Reform Association (Deceased Wife's Sister's Act, Barbados);
• Post Office (detention of mail boat by governor, Barbados; remittance to postmaster for stamps, Grenada; postage and inland revenue stamps: use of one type, Windwards; Tobago mail service; bi-monthly mail service, Tobago; Act No 44 of 1884-1885: parcels post; Post Office Ordinance, Grenada);
• Colonial Office (governor's salary Bill: speech by Acting Colonial Secretary on second reading in House of Assembly, Barbados);
• Royal Humane Society (medal and certificate for George Alex McDowall, Barbados, for saving someone from drowning);
• General Medical Council (Medical Registration Ordinances);
• West India Committee (convention with the United States);

Individuals:

• Bishop of Barbados (Reverend C Field's leave, Barbados);
• J Choppin (application for post of Chief Justice, St Lucia; application for Puisne Judgeship at Jamaica or British Guiana, Barbados; application for Chief Justiceship of Leewards, Windwards);
• Sir G H Chambers (refers to advances of money on estates, Barbados);
• R S Chessman (resignation of seat on councils, St Vincent);
• A J Gore (application for promotion, St Vincent; dormant commission as Lieutenant Governor of Windwards, St Vincent; application to British Honduras);
• Colonel Harley (allowance to Mr Risk, Grenada);
• E J Hutton (application for medical appointment, Jamaica, Grenada);
• D Hunter (dismissal of Mr Thomas Ross, Headmaster of the grammar school of Kingston [Kingstown], St Vincent [previously Professor Laurie of the University of Edinburgh]);
• A Kingdon (his acting appointment as Attorney General, St Vincent);
• H C Litchfield (application for post of Colonial Engineer, Grenada);
• I C Maling (uniform of the keeper of the gaol [jail], Grenada):
• D K Porter (resignation of his seat on the Executive Council, St Vincent; Ordinance No 11 of 1882: acquisition of land, St Vincent):
• W J Sendall (his appointment as Governor, Windward Islands; Captain Denton's application for governorship of Falkland Islands, St Vincent);
• R Walker (erection of water works, Bowmanston Spring, Barbados; improvement of the harbour, quality and quantity of water at Bowmanston Spring, purchase of Bowmanston Spring, Barbados);
• J S Williams (appointment as medical officer, St Lucia; appointment as Assistant Colonial Surgeon and Immigration Officer).

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