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

Catalogue reference: CO 321/104

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Reference
CO 321/104
Date
1887
Description

Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 321/100, CO 321/101, CO 321/102, and CO 321/103. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

  • House of Commons (Castries as a coaling station, St Lucia; annexation of Tobago to Trinidad);
  • Admiralty (capture of Swan for breach of revenue laws, St Vincent);
  • Agents (Messrs Waterlow's charge for keeping type for laws standing, Tobago; Central Sugar Factory, St Lucia: loan for, crown lands held by, report on; dredging in Castries harbour, St Lucia; appointment of Mr Kenneth Reid as Colonial Engineer, St Lucia; tenders for 4½ % Loan, St Lucia; purchase of railway materials by Mr Bostock, St Lucia; state of Grenada funds; Captain Denton's security and bond, St Vincent; Mr Hooper's report on forests, Grenada; payment of half-salary to diver Thomas Wingate, St Lucia; map of Grenada);
  • Board of Trade (case of the British schooner Hero, Grenada; sending back shipwrecked passengers, Tobago; engagement of seamen, Grenada);
  • Law Officers (annexation of Tobago to Trinidad);
  • Treasury (escheated property of G A Munro, Grenada):
  • Home Office (prison dietary, Grenada; introduction of mark system into prisons, Grenada):
  • War Office (Castries as a coaling station, St Lucia; military buildings occupied by colonial authorities, St Lucia; repair of buildings occupied by Royal Engineer staff, St Lucia; land for defence works, St Lucia; defence of port Castries, St Lucia; B Saunders pension, Grenada);
  • Colonial Defence Committee (defence returns, St Lucia);
  • Inland Revenue (payment of income tax on certain allowances of government officers, St Vincent);
  • Pharmaceutical Society (Medical Registration Ordinance, 1886, St Vincent);
  • West Indian Encumbered Estates Commission (estates sold by commissioners, St Vincent);
  • Post Office (detention of mails at Trinidad, Tobago; Fictitious Stamps Ordinance, St Lucia; manufacture of counterfeit stamps, Grenada);
  • College of Physicians (leprosy, St Vincent);
  • West India Committee (imposition of an export duty, Grenada);
  • Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (ordinances respecting compulsory pilotage, St Lucia; cargo dues, and export duty on coal, St Lucia);

Individuals:

  • S Cunningham (petition for re-employment, Tobago);
  • O Chadwick (St George's water supply, Grenada);
  • Earl of Derby (grant of an annuity to Mr Atthill, St Lucia);
  • G W Gordon (further employment, Tobago);
  • A J Gore (his retirement, St Vincent; upkeep of garden near Montrose House, St Vincent);
  • Gillespie, Bros & Co (compulsory pilotage, St Lucia):
  • E D M Hooper (forest report, St Lucia and Tobago);
  • W Mornington (application for re-employment, Tobago);
  • A McEwan (death of Mr Atthill, St Lucia);
  • Marryat & Sons (compulsory pilotage and export duty on coal, St Lucia):
  • Mrs Meetkerke (grant to Mrs Gore from Royal Bounty, St Vincent);
  • Dr O'Carroll (application for transfer, St Vincent);
  • D K Porter (Encumbered Estates Act, St Vincent);
  • W A Purser (his appointment as Medical Officer, Tobago);
  • J Peter (proposed fortifications, St Lucia; additional subsidy to steam conveyance company, St Lucia; Castries harbour, St Lucia);
  • J Ross (application for re-employment, St Vincent; his dismissal, St Vincent);
  • C Risk (application for appointment as Assistant Director of Public Works, Grenada);
  • H Reeve (appointment as Colonial Engineer, St Lucia);
  • R Snell (petition to 'HM the Queen', St Vincent);
  • A G A Van Eelde (application for employment as an engineer, St Vincent);
  • J J Williams (appeal against his suspension, St Lucia);
  • J W Wilson (his claims to re-employment, St Lucia).

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
International
Manufacturing
Labour
Railways
Army
Taxation
Trade and commerce
Caribbean
Maps and plans
Pay and pensions
Resources
Coal
Construction industries
Crown lands and estates
Disease
Food and drink
Navy
Forestry
Communications
Disasters and emergencies
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2975569/

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