Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals...

CO 111/329

1860

Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters relating to British Guiana. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Admiralty (Suradannine timber for ship building, passages for W McNulty, George P Wells, Reverend A Murray, Reverend A Matthews, Reverend A D Murray and Edward Read);
• Crown Agents (supply of silver coins);
• Privy Council Office (confirmation of Demerara Railway Company Ordinance, confirmation of further ordinance relating to the Railway Company, continuation of privileges granted to the Combined Court);
• Foreign Office (boats seized by escaped convicts [forwarding letter in French], Mr Metman's mission regarding law reform in the Dutch colonies and his probable visit to Demerara [forwarding letter in French], French request for surrender of escaped convicts not covered by extradition convention, possible local arrangement for surrender of escaped convicts [two letters, in English and French], appointment of Thomas C Jenkins as United States consul [two letters], claim of Portuguese consul to the right to administer Portuguese intestate estates [two letters], disposal of boats seized by convicts from Cayenne [two letters], draft ordinance on subject of convicts from Cayenne, mutual surrender of convicts from Cayenne, extradition treaties of 1844 and 1860, Netherlands request to examine Surinam records from 1804-1816, exemption of Portuguese from service in Fire Brigade [three letters], draft French Convict Extradition Ordinance);
• Home Office (alleged abuses in the management of penal settlement, salaries of officers in the convict service);
• Demerara Railway Company (Ordinance No 19 of 1859 for the temporary management of the railway [five letters];
• General Post Office (transfer of local offices to Colonial Government, postal arrangements and stamps, salaries and income tax assessments);
• Church of Scotland (three acknowledgements of letters, inability to find a substitute for the Reverend Mr Duff, Presbyterian clergy, Mr Bell's letter, leave of absence for Reverend A D Murray, Reverend Mr Harper's letter, recommendation that Reverend Alexander Matthew be appointed to the Parish of St James [two letters], committee of inquiry into alleged abuses [two letters], contract passage for Reverend W Matthew [two letters], leave of absence for Reverend Mr Duff [two letters]);
• Heralds College (governor's insignia of Order of the Bath);
• Cotton Supply Association (Mr Y E Ware's scheme for cotton cultivation);
• State Paper Office (list of Surinam records [two letters]);
• Board of Trade (Ordinance No 23 of 1859 for the relief of the Demerara Railway Company, effects of deceased seaman George Davis of the Sandbach);
• Treasury (Demerara Railway Ordinance, requisition of silver coin, establishment of post offices, ordinance to abolish charge of inland postage on letters and newspapers, Civil List Ordinance, Annual Taxes Ordinance, retired allowances scheme [two letters]);
• War Office (requisition for military stores for militia [two letters], requisition for shot, horse ambulance carts [two letters], military stores, supply of military stores for militia, confirmation of Militia Ordinance).

Individuals:

• John W Braithwaite (alleged libel on Police Inspector General Butts);
• H Brimfield (request to see records relating to the capture of Demerara [three letters];
• George Booker & Company (timber cutting license);
• E De Lalandet (property claim on Mademoiselle Hollier's estate [in French]);
• David Bring (claim to property in Surinam);
• Reverend Archdeacon H H Jones (addresses of W Walker and W Webber);
• W McNulty, police magistrate (additional leave of absence [two letters], contract passage);
• John Morley (requests information on guaranteed loan);
• Reverend A D Murray (Mr Walker's address, contract passage [two letters]);
• Sarah Madden (petition to Queen for aid to return to her home in Antigua following death of her Irish husband);
• James Ford Reed (ill treatment of 'negroes');
• Edward Read (contract passage);
• Smith Payne & Smith (income tax on interest);
• P L Simmonds (return of revenue for 1858);
• Mr Lucie Smith, attorney general (his reports on certain ordinances);
• John Taggart (extension of leave);
• A Wattie (property claim);
• W Walker (leave of absence, exemption from Fire Brigade service);
• G P Wells (contract passage [two letters]);
• W J B Webber (leave of absence).

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