Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Letters from various government offices...

Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 23/91. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments):

• Admiralty (John Lamotte, Colonel Colebrooke's conveyance, removal of Africans to Trinidad, George P Wood's appointment as Advocate and Procurator General, mail arrangements);
• Agent (estimates, Treasury minutes, office of agent);
• Commander in Chief (barracks, discontinuance of the mail service, returns Lieutenant Egerton's letters);
• Foreign Office (American Consul at Turks Island Wynns, restitution of slaves removed from Mr Forbes' estate to Cuba, removal of emancipated 'Negroes' from Cuba, repayment of money paid by American vessels at Turks Islands, lighthouse on Key Sal Bank, condemnation of the Roza and emancipation of the 157 slaves, claims of American for losses after seizure of slaves from the Comet, condemnation of the Portuguese slave vessel Despique);
• Home Office (convict Thomas Copper);
• James Stephen, legal adviser (trial of Prince Storr for murder, case of American vessel Comet);
• Ordnance (barracks);
• Treasury (John Irving appointment as Administrator of Property, expenses related to 'captured Negroes', deputy surveyor's remuneration, public revenue, engineer officer employed to repair civil buildings, mail boat, accounts of the Receiver General, compensation for seized slaves from the Comet, Rev Sweeney's passage, poll tax on Lord Rolles slaves, Colonel Colebrookes passage, Commissioners of Compensation, accounts of the revenue, Quit Rent Fund, slaves on board the Firefly);
• Post Office (conveyance of despatches, mail boat);
• Compensation Commissioners (opinion on Slavery Act);

• George C Anderson (application for post of Advocate and Procurator General);
• Colonel Colebrooke (his conveyance, statement of service, salary, furnishing of the Government House);
• Sir L Grant (authority of Consul assumed by Mr Wynn);
• Stephen Hurley (application for employment);
• Mr. Kirkland (salary of Sir J Carmichael Smith [Smyth]);
• Charles Lake (appointment as Stipendiary Magistrate);
• A Murray (Quit Rent payment complaint);
• H Munro (appointment as Stipendiary Magistrate);
• Samuel Nesbitt, Secretary, Registrar of Records and Clerk of the Council (petition for restoration of home salary, arrival on leave, last session's laws, comments on education, commerce and Quit Rents);
• C Penny (Stipendiary Magistrate Salary) [not included in volume];
• Lord Rolle ('insubordination of slaves', interviews, reply to Mr Rice's letter);
• Rev Sweeney (remuneration) [not included in volume]
• George Wood (application and testimonials for appointment as Attorney General)

Topics

International

Labour

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Race relations

Navy

Crime

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)