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

CO 111/394

1872

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

Offices:

• Crown Agents (vaccine lymph for British Guiana, consolidation of the British Guiana Public Department, salary to Mr Salmon, half-salary to Mr Frith, salary to Mr Crosley, salary to Reverend F I Wyatt during leave of absence, salaries to Messrs Twyford, Pollard, Cox and Austin during their leave of absence, half-salary to R C Swain, salary to Mr Justice Phillipps while on leave, pension to Reverend G Fox);
• Treasury (pension to W H Ware to commence on 23 November 1872, purchase of pocket chronometers for the geological survey, remittances on account of the sinking fund of the guaranteed loan);
• Foreign Office (recognition of Vice-Consuls or Consular Agents appointed by Consuls, appointment of Mr Leon as German Consular Agent, death certificate of C R Van Landen, Mr Whitfield's views on the state of the colony);
• War Office (appointment of J F Trotter to be Second Sub-Agent of Immigration in British Guiana, maintenance and repair of barracks);
• Church of Scotland (recommendation of W Robertson for appointment to Collegiate Charge of St Andrew's Georgetown);
• Georgetown British Guiana Gas Company (Joint-Stock Companies Consolidation Ordinance of 1846);
• Paddington Committee for Organising Charitable Relief and Repressing Mendacity (Mrs Southey);
• Geological Survey Office (Mr Brown's application for pocket chronometers);
• West India Committee (Immigration Bill);
• Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ('mental derangement' of W G E Watkins).

Individuals:

• S Black (refund of his superannuation abatements);
• N Cox (application for extension of leave, his half-salary during extended leave);
• N D Davis (acknowledges letter of 17 February, application for extension of leave);
• Mrs Duke (requests address of the Bishop of British Guiana);
• S Dickinson (requests address of Mr Justice Phillipps);
• W E Frene and G Young (duties on food);
• J H Forte (application for appointment as District Medical Officer, applies for the return of his testimonials and requests information respecting the appointment);
• D M Gallagher (applies for extension of leave, reports his address in London, reports his intended departure for Demarara);
• H Gibbons (applies for the return of his testimonials);
• Mr Hill (extension of leave, further extension of leave);
• H S Hitzler (extension of leave);
• J C Harris (two items concerning extension of leave, requests information on a medical appointment);
• H Hutson (reports his arrival in England);
• H Kirke (passage from Demarara, inadequacy of his salary);
• H J Loughran (departure from the colony, his intention to sail on 18 March);
• C E Lathbury (explains application for leave of absence);
• Bishop of Lincoln (acknowledges receipt of a letter concerning Mr Lathbury);
• H May (extension of leave);
• G Milroy (report on Lunatic Asylum, patients suffering from leprosy);
• W C Mollan (appointment of Stipendiary Magistrate);
• C H Okey (application for vacant judgeship);
• W B Pollard (extension of leave);
• G Phillipps (extension of leave);
• W Robertson (appointment to St Andrews Georgetown);
• K P Reehorst (pamphlet concerning gold and silver mining);
• G B Ross (title of late R Gordon);
• E Southey (renews her application for a grant, asks for a copy of a letter sent to her on 15 July 1870);
• Reverend D Smith (two items concerning extension of leave, further extension of leave, further extension of leave);
• D Shier (extension of leave);
• H M Swaine (Medical Service of the colony);
• A W Twyford (arrival on leave, report on prisons, extension of leave, report on the Mazzarine Penal Settlement, extension of leave, report on prison discipline);
• Messrs Townley and Gard (slave compensation papers, E E Hyndman deceased);
• A G Thompson (appointment of an Assistant Engineer and Surveyor, his appointment as Assistant Civil Engineer, application for an advance);
• R H Whitfield (pamphlet on present position and future prospects of the colony, alterations in constitution of the Court of Policy, 'East Indian' immigrants, Earl Kimberley's letter of 29 August, non receipt of Earl Kimberley's letter, welfare of the colony);
• F J Wyatt (certificate of leave of absence);
• G Watkins (protests against deprivation of liberty);
• S E Watkins (pay due to him);
• J Warner (vacant post of Chief Magistrate);
• G Young (fee for drawing up immigration law, draft immigration ordinance, scheme of medical districts).

CO 309/108/114;120 concern a masonic address to the Prince of Wales, from the Phoenix lodge, New Amsterdam

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