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 (suppression of the slave trade, Lieutenant Governor Colebrooke's circuit and passage expenses);
• Commander and Chief (recommends Colonel Smelt as Lieutenant Governor, defence and troops);
• Council (leaves various acts to operation, disallows Acts 914 and 928);
• Board of Trade (unwillingness to relax the navigation laws);
• Foreign Office (construction of lighthouse at Cay Sal Bank by the Spanish, William Foster's case of enslavement in Florida);
• Law Officers (ship-wrecked Spanish convicts, commutation of John Bonas' sentence, report on the Walter Sims murder trial);
• Board of Ordnance (garrison strength, increase of defences);
• Treasury (judicial arrangements, commutation of quit rents, lighthouses at Gun Cay and Abaco, liberated Africans, Balfour's passage, salary of Acting Attorney General Wood, bill for building a 'normal school' for 'Negro' education, termination of the position of Secretary to the Auxiliary Board of Compensation );
• War Office (former Acting Attorney General Lieutenant Henry M Williams' pay arrears);
• Office of Commissioners of Compensation (explains that the compensation fund was distributed according to an act of Parliament);
• General Post Office (letters for New Providence and Turks Island to be sent in separate bags);
• Baptist Missionary Society (validity of marriages solemnised by Baptist missionaries);
• Lloyds (lighthouses at Gun Cay and Abaco).

• Henry P Bird (client's claim against Magistrate Sandilands)
• Blayney Balfour (Munnings' pension, state of Turks Island, Sir J C Smyth's correspondence, condition of the Bahamas
• Mr Cockburn (state of the Bahamas)
• H M Dyer (appointment of J C Lees as Chief Justice to replace William Munnings);
• Edward Eustace Hill (reports arrival on leave of absence, resigns appointment of stipendiary magistrate);
• J H Light (passage to Jamaica);
• J C Lees (forwards letters, comments on appointment);
• James Malcolm (proceedings of the Assembly);
• A Murray (state of his property in the Bahamas);
• A Mackenzie, Stipendiary Magistrate ('detained by contrary wind');
• Hector Munro (resigns stipendiary magistrate appointment, pay arrears);
• Lord Rolle (asks what number of slaves were returned for his plantation at Exuma);
• Rev William Strachan (forwards a sermon preached by him to some apprentices);
• James Walker (leave of absence, opinions on the West Indies compensation, admission of liberated Africans into the militia);
• W W Wren (actions taken by two Frenchmen to recover certain freehold property).

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