Despatches: Offices and Individuals. Despatches are described at item level, offices...

Despatches: Offices and Individuals. Despatches are described at item level, offices and individuals are not. Offices and Individuals include letters from various government departments and individuals, most which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO101/78. Item also includes despatches sent from Lieutenant Governor Middlemore, Folios 324 - 503.

Lieutenant Governor Middlemore:

• letter dated 11 January 1834, referring to appointment of commisioners, 28th section of the Abolition of Slavery act;
• letter dated 2 March 1834, transmitting the annual returns of the financial resources of Grenada, with the several branches of its expenditure [the Blue Book; not in item] , with a report on the returns;
• letter dated 6 March 1834, replying to a circular about Slave Courts; replies there are no Slave Courts in Grenada;
• letter dated 29 March 1834, referring to case of a free Black man called Pierre, convicted of Obeah;
• letter dated 10 April 1834, transmitting the results of the work of the assistant commissioners of compensation of Grenada not in item];
• Missing; dummy sheet dated 30 April; recommendation of Xavier to mercy;
• letter dated 24 June 1834, transmitting act of the legislature regarding quarantine regulations;
• letter dated 4 November 1834, reporting death of Captain Eastwood, a Stipendiary Magistrate for Grenada;
• draft letter dated 20 March 1835, from Secretary of State to Governor Middlemore approving his appointment to the government of St. Helena;

Offices:

• Agents (militia; Otway to be Stipendiary Magistrate, due to death of Captain Eastwood);
• Foreign Office (sloop Thetis);
• Home Department (orders given for reception of seven convicts on board the Justitia hulk);
• Law Officers (refers to sentence of death passed on Francis Xavier);
• Mr. Stephen (petition against a sentence of treadmill; refers to cases of free Black person called Richard Hinds, indicted for an assault and battery on the person of Edward Versepuy, and a 'free man of colour' called Charles Henry Lomprés, indicted for an assault and battery on person of Richard Jackman Jones; Hinds was sentenced to imprisonment for two weeks and fined ten pounds, and in default of that fine at the expiration of that period, to be imprisoned with hard labour for two weeks more, and Lomprés was sentenced to be imprisoned for three calendar months, and to be kept to hard labour on the treadmill during the first and last months of sentence; Catholic Church rent; case of convict called José);
• Treasury (proposed amendment of Act relating to duty on tonnage of vessels for defraying customs salaries, revenue officers, Mr. Stephen);

Individuals:

• A. J. Cox (letter from Middlemore respecting his salary as Lieutenant Governor);
• D. Cameron (death of Alex Cameron);
• Thos. Cayley (salary as Stipendiary Magistrate);
• Dobree Jones (letter from Waddilore);
• Mary Ann Ditmas (requests appointment of Sipendiary Magistrate for her son);
• Jas. Dowlas (Lord Fingall);
• Captain Eastwood (Stipendiary Magistrate);
• Lord Fingall (Jas. Dowlas/ Dowlass);
• K. F. H. Mackenzie (memorial of his late father and claim of his services in Tobago from 1779 to 1781 and in Grenada from 1791 to 1797);
• John O'Neil (grievances and asks for relief);
• Robert Otway (Stipendiary Magistrate);
• Mr. O'Hannan (complains of Act recently passed for preventing 'impropoer' persons from officiating as ministers of religion in the island; Roman Catholic rights; resolutions passed at a meeting of Roman Catholic inhabitants n subject of Bill relating to ministers of religion);
• ? Stringer (requests an appointment; requests appointment as Stipendiary Magistrate);
• P. M. Stewart (supply of new silver coin; mint);
• J. Sinclair (Jas. Wight);
• J. Woodhead (requires certificate of death of Commander Eastwood);
• Jas. Wight (claim of Esther Calder against J. Sinclair);
• Henry Wharton Waddilore (proposition for encouraging emigration);

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