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 321/93, CO 321/94, CO 321/95, CO 321/96, CO 321/97, and CO 321/98. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (case of Mr Ross, former head of Grammar School, St Vincent; defence of Castries, St Lucia);
• Admiralty (selection of St Lucia as a coaling station; survey of Windward Islands; Ordinance 6: liquor on board HM ships, St Lucia);
• Agents (Castries Harbour works, St Lucia; surcharged postage stamps, St Lucia; accounts of harbour works, St Lucia; requisitions for stores for harbour works, St Lucia; printing of revised edition of laws, Tobago; requisition sent direct to Messrs Waterlow & Sons, St Vincent [indent for register and index books]; report of Central Sugar Factory, St Lucia; selection of Sergt O'Gorman as Sergeant Major of Police, Grenada; Mr C Messervy's guarantee bond, Grenada; loan for public works, Grenada; Mr Hooper's forest report, St Vincent; family remittance of men employed on harbour works, St Lucia; particulars of two schooner yachts, Grenada; public works loan ordinance, Grenada);
• India Office (Mr E K Moylan's disbarment, Grenada);
• Law Officers (Graham bequest, St Vincent);
• Treasury (allowance on abolition of office to officers not giving whole time to duties, Tobago; postal contribution, Tobago);
• Foreign Office (British subjects and General Pulgar's 'insurrection' [Venezuela]; case of the capture of the steam vessel Annette and treatment of the crew; inspection of French records by Mr Hooper; memorial of G A Aubert, St Lucia, complaining of conduct of the registrar of criminal courts in connection with the issue of a certificate which he had applied for);
• War Office (sanitary station at Fort Charlotte, St Vincent; recruiting for West India regiments; proposal to make Barbados a coaling station instead of St Lucia; buildings occupied by Royal Engineer staff);
• Customs (Customs Ordinance 1885, St Lucia; draft customs ordinance, Grenada);
• Kew Gardens (proposed botanical garden, St Lucia; appointment of J Gray as Curator of Botanical station, St Lucia);
• Probate Registry (will of late James Graham, St Vincent);

Individuals:

• J Armstrong (settlement of boundaries of estates, St Lucia);
• R L Allport (seizure of goods by customs, St Vincent);
• Sir A Adderley (subscriptions for sufferers of cyclone and hurricane relief fund, St Vincent);
• W G M Betton (St Vincent: survey of the colony [includes printed memorial 'from members of the Negro inhabitants of the Island of St Vincent', names either removed or not included, for survey to be carried out in order that lots of Crown land can be sold to persons of African descent]; sale of land to Mr Cloke; grievances of the 'working classes'; sale of Crown land; sale of Gramacon lands to Mr Cloke; survey of charcoal tax; publication of his letters);
• J W Carrington (defalcations of Mr Gall, St Lucia; offer to forego £50 of his salary, St Lucia; draft revised edition of laws, Tobago);
• J Choppin (application for Chief Justiceship of Barbados, St Vincent; resignation of police magistracy, St Vincent);
• Col J Duncan (Mr A Gall, St Lucia);
• G W Gordon (application for promotion, Tobago; his retirement, Tobago);
• Lt Gov Gore (damage done by cyclone, St Vincent; his pension, St Vincent; resignation of appointment as Colonial Secretary, St Vincent; his commission as Lieutenant Governor, St Vincent);
• D Hunter (J Ross, former headmaster of Grammar School, Mr Ross' claims to compensation, St Vincent);
• M B Isaacs (death of S B Isaacs, Tobago; suggested appointment of himself in place of his uncle, Tobago):
• H H Joudon Bill (application for promotion, Grenada; employment in Burma, Grenada):
• J M Lash (right to pension for his previous service, Grenada);
• A Lloyd (application for interview, St Lucia);
• D K Porter (water supply of two of his estates, St Vincent; administration of Graham bequest, St Vincent);
• L M Paret (his liability for defalcations in 1881, St Lucia);
• C Risk (application for re-employment, Grenada);
• J Ross (his claims to compensation, St Vincent):
• W P Roche (appointment as Inspector of Police, St Lucia);
• H R P Schooles (customs ordinance, Grenada; renting of his house to government, Grenada; application for appointment as Queen's advocate, Ceylon);
• S Smith (distress caused by hurricane, Grenada);
• P B S Wrey (application for employment as surveyor, St Vincent);
• J Young (land taxation, Tobago).

Topics

Charities

International

Manufacturing

Labour

Army

Taxation

Asia

Caribbean

Conflict

Pay and pensions

Race relations

Resources

Treason and rebellion

Coal

Construction industries

Crown lands and estates

Food and drink

Nationality

Navy

Wills and probate