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:

• Crown Agents (pensions paid out of Colony, rice cultivation, quinine, bills drawn by the Emigration Agent, resignation of T W T Barklie, destruction of clothing of immigrants on the SS Sutlej);
• Emigration Agency, Calcutta (assumption of the charge of Trinidad Agency, report of Protector of Emigrants, Calcutta 1908, security regarding appointment, expenditure on account of emigration to British colonies 1908-9, voyage of the SS Sutlej);
• Foreign Office (Surinam-Brazil boundary, Cuban fugitive offender, Ramon Garriga Cuevas, Venezuelan boundary, complaint of Dr J Seetulsingh, stamp duty on United States Consul's bills);
• Home Office (Ordinance No 11 of 1909, Probation of Offenders Ordinance);
• India Office (bills drawn by Emigration Agents);
• Law Officers (petition on behalf of George W Gibbs);
• Medical Adviser (E W F English, opinion as to his deafness);
• Parliament (irrigation and drainage schemes, irrigation expert);
• Treasury (J McI Reid);
• War Office (army commission for Bandmaster Carroll);
• General Medical Council (Dental Ordinance 1908);
• Colonial Nursing Association (vacancy for Superintendent of Nurses, recommends Miss Beatrice Charity Empson, resignation of Miss B C Empson);
• Colonial Office (C D C memo 484R);
• Customs Office (Comptroller of Customs, proposal to appoint J McI Reid);
• Local Government Board (Epidemic Diseases Ordinance);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (R J Manning);
• Royal College of Veterinary Surgeon's (Veterinary Surgeons Ordinance);
• Demerara Company Limited (Horsfall v Fleming, immoral relations with female immigrants);
• West India and Panama Telegraph Company (wireless telegraphy);
• British Guiana Mines and Diamonds Limited (title to certain concessions);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (inter-colonial and tourist service);
• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (assistant bacteriologist);
• National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (case of the Misses Abbott).

Individuals:

• Miss M Abbott (pension);
• Sisters Abbott (guardians of the Misses Abbott);
• Barclay and Rallison (maintenance of Mrs Brummell);
• Mrs F P Brummell (maintenance, remittance from her husband, advance of £5);
• David Clarke (his case);
• Laurence Delaney Cleare (transfer);
• The Honourable Colonel Crighton (Captain Brunker);
• Dr C F Castor (pension);
• Reverend Emil G H Caswell (pension);
• Professor Deycke (leprosy investigations);
• E W F English (transfer, his deafness, medical examination);
• Miss B C Empson (post of Superintendent of Nurses);
• James Freeman (petition for full pension);
• Colonel C Francis (appointment as magistrate);
• Sir F M Hodgson (reserved bill, vacant magistracy, application of G A Fengely, defence forces of the West Indies);
• M Jeffrey Singh Maharajh (female East Indian immigrants, estate hospitals for immigrants);
• Lawrence, Webster, Messer and Nicholls (grant of Crown Land);
• Mrs M B Loveluck (pension);
• George Liverpool and others (pension);
• Martinus Nijhoff (Venezuelan boundary commission);
• Captain W Le Poer Power (retirement, pension);
• John T Rennie Son & Company ('coolies' at Durban);
• Sir T C Rayner (chief justiceship, Jamaica);
• Miss Lucy M Reddam (assistance for brother);
• J Seetalsingh (complaint, consular protection);
• Van Oppen and Co (complaint against customs);
• Stephen Wallbridge (junior post in African colonies, post on Nigerian railway);
• F P Wood (widows pension for Mrs Martha Burton Loveluck);
• Gaylord Wilshire (wireless telegraph installation);
• A & M Zimmerman (leprosy, Professor Deyckes Nastin treatment).

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