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

Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters relating to British Guiana sent to the Colonial Office during 1881. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (parliamentary question regarding flogging for petty theft);
• Crown Agents (Public Officers' Guarantee Fund, admission of colony to Postal Union, Stanfords' estimate for reproduction of a map);
• Board of Trade (no objection to Ordinance No 21 of 1880 Shipping Casualties, suggested amendments to Shipping Casualties Investigations Ordinance);
• Treasury (payment to Archdeacon Wyatt, surtax on rum);
• Foreign Office (Venezuelan boundary [several items]);
• Home Office (appointment of Mr W Bispham to post of chief warden at Georgetown Gaol);
• Colonist [newspaper] (the Crown Agents);
• General Post Office (no objection to confirmation of the Post Office Ordinance, postal payments to Imperial Government, possible applicants for the post of postmaster general);
• West India Committee (sugar manufacture, analytical report on the Bloomer Process in the manufacture of sugar molasses and rum by Dr Sedgwick Saunders, further report on the process, further discussion of the process);
• Local Government Board (case of Theresa Major 'native' of Demerara now an inmate of the Weymouth workhouse);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Mr McTurk's report on the timbers of British Guiana, Mr E F im Thurn's application for post of magistrate on Pomeroon River [with offprint of an article 'On some Birds collected by Mr E F im Thurn in British Guiana by P L Sclater' from the proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1 February 1881], acknowledges receipt of report on the botanic gardens and agrees with governor that praise is due to board of directors and superintendent).

Individuals:

• Dr J Mitford Atkinson (seeks medical appointment);
• Edward John Brathwaite (sends copy of his memorial with further requests);
• Sir David Chalmers, chief justice (memorandum on the judicial procedure with copies of correspondence between him and the governor, and a statistical statement of court business in the years 1850-1879);
• Nicholas Cox, inspector general of police (extension of leave);
• John Foreman (argument in favour of the ending of taxation of 'coolies' for the support of Christian churches with cutting from the Demerara Argosy);
• F Fleming (appointment as puisne judge);
• F Mitchell Hodgson (application for post of postmaster general);
• Sir George Kellner (memorandum respecting deficiency of public money in the administrator general's department);
• Dr Thomas Kelly (application for a medical appointment);
• David Macdonald (reports death of his brother the Reverend J Macdonald);
• Thomas McLean (application for employment under the proposed sugar commission);
• Captain M McLeod, provost marshal (seeks increase in salary);
• James Campbell Pollock (application for post in the training college for elementary school teachers);
• Dr J Peregrine (concerning death of Mr Henry Watson former administrator general);
• Charles Lane Payne, inspector of police (expenses and inconvenience incurred in attending inquiry into the case of alleged embezzler Mr Greaves, his return to the colony, resignation and claim for superannuation, his refusal to return without expenses and salary etc);
• Dr J M de V Ratton (application for post of supernumerary surgeon);
• Andrew B Stewart, former registrar of Berbice (his accounts);
• Alexander Sutherland, accountant clerk to the Post Office (his resignation on medical grounds and request for an appointment in a 'non-tropical' colony, further on his resignation, explanations respecting certain deficiencies);
• Sandbach, Tinne & Company, Liverpool (their claim against the administrator general, further regarding claim, claim on account of Oliver's Estate, offer to meet with Colonial Office official, reports further payment of $2960 on account of claim, complaint against the administrator general's office);
• W F Haynes Smith, attorney general (his report on Ordinance No 18 of 1880 'The Procedure Ordinance', his observations on Mr Justice Semper's objections to the same ordinance, his reports on Ordinances Nos 15-17 and 19-29 of 1880, observations on Board of Trade memorandum relating to Ordinance No 22 'Shipping Casualties', offer to supervise work on a compilation of British Guiana laws 1870-1880 and to undertake codification if necessary, requests extension of leave, judicial procedure, suggested amendment to judicial procedure);
• John Smith (estate of the late Peter Nicolson, forwards affidavit by Miss Helen Cameron one of the heirs);
• Thomas Woodman (his claim against the Government for money lent to Administrator Watson in 1870, request that claim be forwarded to governor);
• Dr Henry John Wolseley (applies for medical appointment);
• Dr J C Ponsonby Widdup (applies for medical appointment);
• Dr H J Wyatt (date of passage to take up post of medical officer, his return from British Guiana because of yellow fever epidemic);
• Dr J Warnock (applies for post of colonial surgeon);
• Ernest Ethelbert Wight (complains about his removal from post of acting assistant crown surveyor);
• Dr D Yellowlees (reports favourably on the mental and physical condition of Mr A Sutherland);
• W A G Young, lieutenant governor, and W F Haynes Smith, attorney general (their views on the Venezuelan boundary question).

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