Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) - with the...

Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) - with the exception of the Foreign Office whose correspondence for the year is in CO 111/442 - and individuals on matters relating to British Guiana. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (parliamentary question referring to alleged dissatisfaction in the colony regarding the boundary and other questions);
• Admiralty (request for visit of Royal Navy ship to Venezuela coast, protection of British subjects in event of a rupture with Venezuela, proceedings of Royal Navy ships off the Venezuelan coast, pilotage charge imposed on HMS Lily, survey of coast between Georgetown and the Orinoco river);
• Crown Agents (appointment of Arthur H Butler as assistant engineer in the Public Works Department);
• Board of Trade (regulation of agreements entered into on engagement of seamen in the colony);
• Treasury (sanctions expenditure of £300 for cost of referring Venezuelan boundary question to Sir T Twiss or some other eminent jurist);
• War Office (consents to temporary postponement of withdrawal of troops, defence of Georgetown: states proposed arrangement with regard to armaments);
• Church of England (recommends Reverend A H Anderson as rector of St Saviours Berbice);
• West India Association (loan to provide advances to owners of sugar estates);
• Church of Scotland (recommends Reverend W B Ritchie as minister of St Andrews Georgetown, appointment of Reverend James Muir to St James's parish);
• Public Record Office (forwards list of documents regarding boundaries with notes);
• West India Committee (views concerning reduction of Civil Service expenditure, confirms opinions expressed by deputation on relations between Medical and Immigration Departments on subject of Indian migrants and submits objections to Ordinance 9 of 1886);
• Elected members of British Guiana Court of Policy (deadlock with governor regarding report of medical inspector, alleged unfitness of Dr Williams for the position of medical inspector);
• General Post Office (appointment of Mr Samuel Vyle as electrician in the Post Office);
• British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (forwards petition from J Brown, Samuel Niel, Luke Percival and Rotterdam Cicero 'coloured inhabitants of British Guiana' respecting certain land of which the Government has taken possession);
• Colonial Office (appointment of Lord Gormanston and Sir Charles Mitchell as governors of British Guiana and the Leeward Islands respectively).

Individuals:

• Charles P Austin (application for a colonial secretaryship in British Guiana or elsewhere);
• Dr G Brown (appointment of Mr A Gordon);
• N D Davis (questions relating to Venezuela);
• Dr Richard M Freeman (effect of new medical scheme on his position in the colonial service, application for transfer);
• F A Gall (application for post of stipendiary magistrate);
• Dr R Grieve, surgeon general (relations between Medical and Immigration Departments);
• Edmund Gain (application for post of dispenser at Georgetown Hospital);
• George H Hawtayne (memorandum on Administrator General's Ordinance 1887);
• William L Harragin (application for post of inspector general of police at Barbados, application for post of stipendiary magistrate);
• Percy Hemery (application for post of accountant in the Registrar's Office);
• George Jamieson (memorandum on the Cuyuni Property in territory in dispute with Venezuela);
• J Kingston James (petition for exemption of Meten-Meer-Zorg Sugar Estate from operation of the West Sea Coast Defence Scheme);
• Sir Henry J Irving (case of Mr Cox inspector general of police, rights of judges to be consulted on colonial legislation, mining concessions, Loan Ordinances Nos 13 & 14 of 1887);
• Richard S F Lambert (application for promotion and transfer);
• A L Layton (application for post of colonial secretary at British Honduras, application for post of stipendiary magistrate, application for transfer to Immigration Department);
• W B Lewis (nomination of Mr E Birt for colonial appointment);
• George Melville (application for post of colonial secretary at Trinidad or for promotion);
• R H Nicholson (offer of information relating to Venezuelan boundary);
• S S Parker (forwards printed copy of lecture delivered by Mr Hugh Watt MP at Exeter Hall on the history, present position and future prospects of British Guiana in relation to Venezuela);
• F G E Pym (his resignation);
• A J Pound (requests return of testimonials and asks for certificate of his service as stipendiary magistrate);
• Edward Robins (application for permanent colonial employment, requests record of his colonial service at Ceylon, Trinidad and Demerara);
• R Swan (application for post of police magistrate at Gibraltar, his qualifying for the Bar);
• J A Swettenham (sends papers relating Venezuelan boundary and offers assistance, expresses readiness to consult Dutch records, Brazilian/Venezuelan boundary);
• H G Slade (Submits case for including the Yuruari valley within the boundary of British Guiana, forwards tracing of map believed to be Harteinck's);
• W A M Sheriff (Dillet case: acknowledges letter from Colonial Office and states that he will be more careful in the language he uses);
• W F Haynes Smith (Juvenile Offenders Ordinance No 11 of 1887, Prison Ordinances Amendment Ordinance No 12 of 1887, Issue of Bonds Ordinance No 13 of 1887, Loan Ordinance No 14 of 1887, Administrator General's Ordinance No 15 of 1887, Inheritance Ordinance No 16 of 1887, Trust Property Administration Ordinance No 17 of 1887, Crown Lands Ordinance No 18 of 1887, Clearing of Creeks Ordinance No 20 of 1887, West Sea Coast Defence Ordinance No 19 of 1887, application for promotion);
• J E Tinne (Mr W F Bridges's claim to Corentyn magistracy);
• W S Turner (observations as to Mr Barclay's bankruptcy);
• Reverend A Williams (claim of Mrs Mactaggart or McGuffie on Widows and Orphans Fund);
• Dr J O Wilson (death of Dr Callum);
• Hugh Watt MP (various letters relating to the Venezuelan boundary question with copy of map showing territory in dispute).

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