Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) with...

Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) with the exception of the Foreign Office whose correspondence for 1888 is in CO 111/449, and individuals relating to British Guiana. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (Mr Watt's parliamentary question about the treatment of Mr McTurk by Venezuelan authorities, his parliamentary question relating to petition for amendment of constitution, his parliamentary question regarding action of USA in relation to Venezuelan boundary question, his call to necessity for reform of constitution of British Guiana, his parliamentary question relating to Venezuelan newspaper attacks on Great Britain, his parliamentary question concerning the appointment of George Bagot as protector of Indians in 1820);
• Admiralty (request for Royal Navy ship to proceed to Barima, forwards copy of letter from Captain Beaumont of HMS Canada concerning Venezuelan affairs, defence of British Guiana against attacks by Venezuela, regulations concerning the import of explosives into the colony);
• Crown Agents (recommends Mr J M Moore as assistant colonial engineer, appointment of Mr J H M Rae as assistant engineer in the Public Works Department, recommends appointment of Mr Pieter Vander Vlies as fascine worker);
• Council Office (petition of Mr Louis de Souza for permission to appeal to the Privy Council in respect of his imprisonment for contempt of court, quarantine conference);
• Board of Trade (consider the Merchandise Marks Ordinance to be satisfactory);
• Treasury (copyright returns, supply of fourpenny pieces and replacement of worn silver coin);
• War Office (forwards three copies of amended map of British Guiana [[not in item], asks if withdrawal of troops can now take place, questions pending with Venezuela, defence against possible Venezuelan attack in relation to boundary dispute, Guiana Central Railway Company, marines for the defence of Georgetown, will not withdraw troops at present, every effort should be made to improve and increase volunteer force in colony, supply of guns for defence of Georgetown);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (new kind of India rubber plant discovered by Mr G S Jenman);
• Venezuelan Austin Gold Mining Company (position of the company on adjustment of the boundary);
• High Commissioner for Cyprus (Venezuelan boundary);
• West India Committee (working of the medical law);
• National Association of Journalists (proceedings against the editor of the British Guiana Royal Gazette);
• Colonial Office (quarters of supernumerary medical officers).

Individuals:

• J Adair (sends extract from the Demerara Daily Chronicle relating to the Venezuelan boundary question);
• Dr G Brown (recommends retirement of the Reverend J J Smyth);
• Reverend G H Butt (his resignation);
• G Charpentier (his suspension);
• Sir David Chalmers (Mr M Olton's claim to promotion, reorganisation of provost marshal's office);
• J T Cartwright (appointment as stipendiary magistrate and application for promotion);
• C J Cox (application for chief clerkship in Government Secretariat);
• Nicholas Cox, inspector general of police (his observations on report of enquiry into administration of police force);
• J W Carrington (appointment as attorney general);
• Miss Foster (pension of Mrs Foster);
• J D Goodman (Mr W F Bridges's application for post of stipendiary magistrate);
• Lord Gormanston (his return to UK on sick leave, position of Dr A D Williams, appointment of marshals and abolition of office of provost marshal, appointment of Mr Barnes as acting inspector of police, requests extension of leave);
• W H Hinds (petition regarding his prosecution for contempt of court);
• Sir Henry T Irving (report of medical inspector for 1886 and relations between Medical and Immigration Departments, disposal of his confidential despatches while governor of British Guiana, payment of his salary);
• Henry Kirke, sheriff of Demerara (application for post of attorney general);
• A L Layton (application for post of chief commissary);
• W D Lamb (application for post of postmaster general);
• E Loveluck, first clerk and book-keeper Police Department (charges against him);
• Miss Mary Nicolson (her late father's estate);
• A J Pound (application for re-employment, renewal of his application for post of attorney general);
• H M Price (Venezuelan boundary: his claim to land granted in 1886 by the Venezuelan Government);
• Edward Robins (application for post of crown surveyor);
• James H Reddan (his opinion that there is no need at present to bring the portfolio of Venezuelan boundary maps held at Trinity College Dublin to London);
• G R Sandback (complaint as to medical inspector's report on Leonora Hospital);
• G Stiebel (Venezuelan boundary: states what he knows of the mining district);
• J A Swettenham (Colonial Office memorandum on Dutch records collated by him relating to the boundary question [with schedule of records and copies of maps dated 1748, 1749, 1798 and 1888], extract from Major General P M Nesscher's history of the colonies of Essequibo, Demerara and Berbice with comments on the boundary question, observations on Mr Harris's memorandum on the Brazilian boundary [with printed copy of Mr Harris's memorandum);
• Reverend J J Smyth (his resignation);
• O E Swain (application for transfer);
• W S Turner (extension of leave and his official position, system of supervision at distilleries);
• Dr A D Williams (his report as medical inspector, grant of degree of DPH Cambridge to him, protest against transfer from medical inspectorship, his salary in event of transfer, injuries to workmen through non-protection of machinery, grant of certificate of proficiency in bacteriology to him by King's College London);
• Hugh Watt MP (treatment of Mr McTurk by Venezuelans, Venezuelan boundary, railway to north-west frontier of colony, affairs in Yuruari District).

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