Correspondence from offices (government departments and other organisations) and...

Correspondence from offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters relating to British Guiana.

Offices:

• Admiralty (post of Sergeant Major and Drill Instructor, Thursday Island);
• Crown Agents (Demerara railway concession, rearmament of local forces, case of pensioner Samuel Vyle, life belts for 'coolie' vessels, Colonial funds investment);
• Emigration Agency in Calcutta (engagement of 'natives' of India, proposed revision of rules under the Emigration Act, proposed structural alterations in the Depots, report on past emigration season, intended acquisition of Trinidad Agency Premises, expense of agency, use of agency's premises by the Government of Natal, work of agency);
• Council Office (civil list);
• Foreign Office (Brazilian boundary arbitration award, seizure of the ship Uvabanti and claim of V d'Oliveira against Venezuela, survey of the Venezuelan boundary, free state of Counani, escaped French convicts from Cayenne, J H de Jonge's application for timber concession, pseudo Republic of Counani, tonnage dues at Demerara, Venezuelan outrage on boundary and aggression on British Territory, arrest of gold diggers by the Venezuelan Government and their release);
• Parliament (immigration ordinance 1891);
• Board of Trade (imitation of Demerara Sugar, tax ordinance 1904, charges on shipping);
• Treasury (excise duty on beetroot sugar, limitation of legal tender of British silver);
• Demerara Railway Company (engagement of railway officials by the Government);
• West India Committee (imitation of Demerara sugar, immigration ordinances);
• Customs Department (Brussels Sugar Convention and certificates of origin);
• Gilchrist Educational Trust (scholarship);
• Colonial Office ('the truth about coolies');
• Marconi Wireless Company (competitive trials of wireless telegraphy in the United States);
• General Post Office (charges on shipping, mail service and late arrival of mails);
• New Colonial Company Limited (case of Mr McEwan);

Individuals:

• Abraham Brothers (commercial travellers licenses);
• E Braddon (case of J H de Jonge);
• R D J Bacon (Venezuelan boundary);
• Sir Henry A Bovell (application as King's Counsel for Mr Hutson and N McKinnon);
• J H de Jonge (his membership of Executive Council, timber concession in Venezuela, abolition of royalty on gold, congress of Americanists in Stuttgart);
• Bishop of Guiana (retirement on pension of Reverend F Welch);
• W C Harragin (transfer to another colony);
• E C Hamley (colonial appointment);
• Mrs M G Lambert (reports death of her husband, enquires as to pension);
• W F Law (application as Medical Inspector);
• Colonel S Lushington (appointment as Inspector General of Police and Colonel Commandment of Militia);
• F J Leaman (resignation);
• Sir P Manson (health reports of Reverend F Welch and H C Swan);
• Dr P E Perot (retirement on pension);
• Sir T C Rayner (revised edition of laws);
• Archbishop Speirs (death of his brother James Speirs);
• H C Swan (charges of immorality against him, retirement);
• J C B Steele (spirits bill).

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