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

Catalogue reference: CO 321/251

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This record is about the Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments), other... dating from 1909 in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
CO 321/251
Date
1909
Description

Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 321/245, CO 321/246, CO 321/247, CO 321/248, CO 321/249 and CO 321/250. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

  • Admiralty (riots, May to June 1907, St Lucia; Admiralty bill, St Lucia);
  • Crown Agents (rat viruses, Grenada, St Lucia; missing books, Grenada; furniture for Government House, St Vincent; asylum patient, E W Begrie, Grenada; pension for E W Begrie, Grenada);
  • Council Office (appeals to HM in Council, Barbados; estate duty, Grenada; Order in Council appeals, St Lucia);
  • Foreign Office (case of the Lyric, Grenada; seizure of the Lady Kensington, St Vincent; quarantine against Venezuela, Grenada);
  • Home Office (explosives and petroleum ordinance, St Vincent);
  • Parliament (contribution to Navy, St Vincent);
  • Board of Trade (registration of ships, St Lucia);
  • Treasury (costs in case of J B Walker, Grenada; estates duties ordinance, Grenada);
  • War Office (military lands and buildings, St Lucia; customs duty on sales of War Department buildings, St Lucia; staff officer of Colonial Forces, Windward Islands; staff officer to local forces, Windward Islands; Lt C E Strahan, Windward Islands);
  • Audit Office (receipts to be given by registrar, St Lucia; system of audit, Windward Islands);
  • Local Government Board (quarantine bill, Grenada, St Lucia, St Vincent, Windward Islands);
  • West India Committee (property tax bill ['dummy' sheet; correspondence not in item], Windward Islands);
  • Estate Duty Office (estates duties ordinance, Grenada);
  • Post Office (obliteration of postage stamps, St Lucia);
  • West India and Panama Telegraph Company (news service, St Vincent);
  • Colonial Office (chief justiceship, Grenada);
  • General Medical Council (Medical and Dentists Regulation Bill, Grenada);
  • Royal Irish Constabulary (J Casey, St Lucia; staff sergeant of police, St Lucia);
  • London School of Tropical Medicine (pneumonia in prisons, St Lucia);
  • Board of Customs (treasurer, etc, Grenada);
  • Times Book Club (claim against Dr Dunbar Hughes, Grenada);
  • Harwich Asylum (dentists charge against Mrs Begrie, Grenada);

Individuals:

  • J M Adams (Treasury and Excise Departments, Grenada);
  • W H Barnard (Carib Country Estate, St Vincent);
  • M Begrie (Mr Begrie's pension, Grenada);
  • Drake & Co (leave to medical officers, St Lucia);
  • W J Douglass (attorney general, Leeward Islands, St Lucia);
  • Rev T F John (stamps, Grenada);
  • R S Johnstone (salary of chief justice, Grenada);
  • T M Russell Leonard (appointment as medical officer, St Vincent);
  • T H Massey (appointment as medical officer, St Vincent; course at Liverpool school, St Vincent);
  • C G Murray (Government House, St Vincent; painting of Government House, St Vincent; temporary residence for administrator, St Vincent);
  • G B Mason (appointment as district medical officer, St Vincent);
  • R E Noble (appointment as legal assistant, St Vincent; departure and passage for nurse, St Vincent);
  • C H Ommanney (case of J B Walker, Grenada);
  • Parrs Bank (loan to Mr Porter, St Vincent);
  • C Pike (pecuniary assistance, St Vincent);
  • C Scott-Dickson (property tax, St Lucia);
  • T C Taylor (retirement of J B Walker, Grenada);
  • D J Tudor (appointment as attorney general, Jamaica, Grenada);
  • J B Walker (Grenada: retirement; his case; extension of leave; appointment of senior puisne judge, Jamaica; resignation; half salary, etc; pension);
  • B Walker (full salary; half pay leave, Grenada).

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
International
Mental illness
Public disorder
Army
Taxation
Trade and commerce
Caribbean
Oil and gas
Pay and pensions
Weapons
Ireland
Disease
Navy
Americas
Communications
Medicine
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Operations, battles and campaigns
Prisons
Local Government
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2975716/

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