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 23/93 and CO 23/94. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments):

• Admiralty (lighthouse construction, conveyance of mail, Lieutenant Bolton and the suppression of the slave trade, inability of mail ship to Mexico to stop in Nassau, naval protection, payment of passages, cruisers to visit lighthouses, Lieutenant Governor's demand for cruisers, regulation allowances for passage);
• Commander in Chief (military establishment returns, Colonel Colebrooke's inability to have command of the troops);
• Council Office (payment of fees on private acts);
• Board of Trade (consents to Grand Key being a free port, question of allowing Haitians to trade in their own ships with British Colonies, appointment of warehouse keeper);
• Foreign Office (United States Government compensation claims for the value of slaves from the Comet and Encomium, correspondence with Spanish Government regarding lighthouse on Key Sal Banks, Portuguese slave ship Felicidad, removal of emancipated 'Negroes' from Havana, copies of certain papers, John Arthur's appointment as American Consel at Turk's Island);
• Ordnance (barracks, trespass by building on Ordnance land at Hog Island, return of enclosers);
• Treasury (expenses incurred due to the capture of Portuguese slave ship Felicidad, transfer of liberated Africans to Trinidad, remuneration to secretary of the Assistant Commissioners of Compensation, construction of lighthouses on Key Sal Bank as well as Abaco and Gun Cay, salaries and pensions of government officers, Civil List Act, silver coinage, payment of passages, Quit Rents, payments to widows of government officers, expense reduction in Liberated African Department, compensation money, approval of Grand Key as a free port and appointment of a clerk and warehouse keeper);
• Commissioners of Compensation (remunerations, dissatisfaction at the intercolonial appointment);
• Reference to four letters concerning the employment of schoolmaster McSweeney that are bound with the 'Negro Education Papers';
• Irish Office (Chief Justice William Munnings' wish to retire on a pension).

• F Buxton (forwards a letter from Dr P R Nesbitt supporting his brother's application to be confirmed as Secretary);
• Mrs W Colebrooke (Colonel Colebrooke's return);
• John Claypole (requests patronage in procuring his passengers for his ship about to sail to Nassau);
• Thomas Cockburn (conveyance of Colonel Colebrooke's despatches);
• Cox & Co (Governor's salary);
• H Moreton Dyer (recommends Mr Hamilton for stipendiary magistracy and Mr Lees for justiceship);
• Charles Gray (salt ponds at Turks Island);
• Captain Edward Eustace Hill (reports the departure of a stipendiary magistrate);
• John C Lees (honorary membership of the Bahama Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, succession to Chief Justiceship);
• Joshua Misick, Coroner of Turks Island (requests appointment of warehouse keeper in Grand Key);
• Hector Munro (resignation from magistracy, payment of passage home, increased allowance, willingness to resume magisterial duties);
• Robert Penny (inconveniences of his son's situation as Stipendiary Magistrate in Turks Island);
• Lord Rolle (emancipation of 'his negroes' and their free use of his lands during their apprenticeship);
• Sophia Richardson (passage for her husband a Surgeon in the 2nd West India Regiment);
• William Rothery (case of wrecked Portuguese slave ship in reference to American claims in the case of the Comet);
• A Reade (Colonel Colebrooke's application for leave of absence, requests Governor Colebrooke's despatches regarding Kings College Branch School, various measures undertaken by Governor Colebrooke);
• F Reade (regrets necessity of his son's return) [not included in volume];
• John Storr (bill for encouraging trade and navigation of the islands);
• John Stiles (date of departure);
• J G Walker (father's claim for compensation for a 'large number of captured Africans put under his charge');
• James Walker (leave of absence).

Topics

Government finances

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Labour

Army

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Weapons

Race relations

Ireland

Navy

Americas

Armed Forces (General Administration)

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