Correspondence received from Offices (government departments and other organisations)...

Correspondence received from Offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on subjects concerning British Guiana. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (Sergeant and Drill Inspector to local forces);
• Emigration Agents, Calcutta (East Indian immigrants, recruiting of 'coolies', report on the Emigration Season 1902, Indian emigration, ankylostomiasis);
• Crown Agents (Demerara Railway, ankylostomiasis, concession to Colonel Sawyer, gratuities to officers of migrant ships, remittances from the colony, stallions, sale of Treasury Bills, Rontgen Roy Apparatus, sale of Colonial bills, 'coolie' conveyance contracts, detention of female emigrants, funds of colony);
• Foreign Office (Brazilian boundary, war with Venezuela, parcel post convention with Surinam, Brazilian boundary arbitration, Franco Brazilian boundary, P Williams, Brussels permanent commission procedure, Bolivar alias Ban Righ, Venezuelan Boundary Commission, seizure of Indiana, French convicts from Cayenne, escaped French criminals from Cayenne, escaped convicts from French Guiana, seizure of Urabanta);
• India Office (microscopes for Surgeons Superintendent on migrant ships);
• Parliament (immigration expense and Brussels sugar convention, sugar bounties);
• Board of Trade (pilotage service and reorganisation, patents ordnance, imitation of Demerara sugar);
• Treasury (British Guiana Bank);
• War Office (Sergeant Instructor for the local forces, cordite);
• Colonial Office (hinterland of British Guiana, Demerara Railway Company, sale of yellow crystals as sugar);
• Kew Gardens (price of African mahogany, Superintendent of Botanic Gardens);
• Curiebrong Diamonds Ltd (further concessions, diamond concession);
• General Post Office (parcel post service with Dutch Guiana, gambling prevention ordnance, mail service assessment);
• London School of Tropical Medicine (pension to Dr Daniels);
• Inland Revenue (payments from the imperial sugar grant, income tax);
• Demerara Railway Company (J Vieiras' complaints against company);
• West Indies Committee (income tax on imperial sugar grant, imitation Demerara sugar);
• Local Government Board (imitation Demerara sugar).

Individuals:

• A S Abbot (death of Mr E Abbot, pension to children of late A M Abbot);
• A M Ashmore (Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens);
• A R Cox (death of N Cox);
• Dr C W Daniels (pension);
• C S Davson (appointment as King's Counsel);
• Dr A Davidson (Dr Ireland);
• J T Dey (return to Gold Coast);
• W D Fisher (information regarding diamond industry);
• C J M Gordon (Second Assistant Inspector of Schools);
• E R Hullah (mining, land regarding concessions);
• J K D Hill (pension rights, magisterial appointment at Berbice);
• E C Hamley (Colonial Secretary of Jamaica, Shrostons Steamer contract);
• C B Hamilton (pension);
• Dr J Ireland (employment during leave);
• D F King (permission to practice medicine in British Guiana);
• Lever Brothers Ltd (soap duty);
• Sir H Melliss (development scheme);
• Dr P Manson (ankylostomiasis);
• T C Matthews (charges against R T A Daly);
• Sir E O'Malley (retirement from the Foreign Office);
• W Parren (Demerara Railway Investments);
• J A Pope (departure, advance);
• Sir W Sendall (E C Hamley);
• Sir E Wingfield (Demerara Railway);
• Professor M Ward (Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens);
• Mr R White (centenary, Mayor of Georgetown).

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