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

Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Letters from various government offices (departments), other organizations and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 23/102 and CO 23/103. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments and other organizations):

• Admiralty (Sir W Colebrooke's passage expense)
• Commander in Chief (discontinuation of the recruitment of Black troops, Mr Hunter's two grandsons' candidacies for commissions, barracks, field officers);
• Council Office (petition from Joshua Misick for appointment as warehouse keeper) [petition not included in volume];
• Board of Trade (no objection to Acts 945 & 946, disallows Acts Nos 926, 940, and 942);
• Foreign Office (approves conduct of the lieutenant governor in the case of the crew of the wrecked American slave ship Invincible, occupation of Cay Sal Bank by Britain);
• Treasury (Quit Rent Act observations, reimbursement for legal costs to Stipendiary Magistrate Major McGregor, lighthouse stores, removal of military convicts, Rev William Hepworth, offers no objection to various Acts, Cay Sal Bank lighthouse construction, requests further information on the Savings Bank Act, payment to Attorney General Kerr, expenditure on liberated Africans, expense of Sir W Colebrooke's official tour, oil cans for the lighthouses, Stipendiary Magistrate MacKenzie's losses);
• War Office (Lieutenant Williams' salary while acting attorney general and assistant judge, Lieutenant Whitfield's salary while acting as a stipendiary magistrate, requests the return of an enclosure);
• Wesleyan Mission House (Bahamas Marriage Act observations, copy of the Dominica Marriage Act, summary of the examination of the different Christian ministers at the bar of the House of Assembly on Thursday 16 November 1837);
• Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (financial support for additional clergymen);

• Mrs Mary Carr (property left by her son);
• William Colebrooke (in favour of Special Magistrate Winder);
• Sir J R Colebrooke (in favour of Special Magistrate Winder);
• J Dickenson (appointment of Secretary);
• P L Gahan (thanks for appointment as judge, payment of passage);
• Rev William Hepworth (leave extension);
• Mr Markby (Captain Gillam);
• Joshua Misick (appointment of warehouse keeper);
• James Moss (maintenance of aged 'Negroes' on his estate);
• Robert Charles Manners (sends a despatch from the lieutenant governor) [despatch not included in volume];
• Alastair MacKenzie, Stipendiary Magistrate (appointment of stipendiary magistrate at the Cape of Good Hope);
• Donald MacGregor, former Stipendiary Magistrate (services, claims);
• R R Nesbitt (death of his father, requests appointment for his brother);
• H Nesbitt (death of his father, his father's services, requests appointment for his brother);
• Charles Penny, Stipendiary Magistrate (passage money home);
• James Walker (resigns seat at the Council Board).

Topics

International

Army

Trade and commerce

Marriage and divorce

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Race relations

Navy

Banking

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns