Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from various government offices...

CO 123/135

1868

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 123/132, CO 123/133, and CO 123/134. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices:

• Admiralty (expenses due to commander of ship Barracouta; reference to appointment of Captain Charles B H Mitchell, Royal Marines, as Colonial Secretary of British Honduras; affairs of Honduras - description and population statistics);
• Agents (application from Mr Pine for advance of salary);
• Privy Council Office (appointment of Mr Phillips; order in council);
• Foreign Office (proposed demarcation of western boundary of British Honduras; encouragement of immigrants to Guatemala; Swedish consul; delay in transmission of despatches; reception of President of Honduras by the English inhabitants of Bay Island - addresses; Guatemalan consul);
• Land Board (act to raise revenue; grant of land at Icacos; land regulations; land and property tax amendment; control of waste lands; land tenures, case of Messrs Young and Toledo; grant of land to Mr Putnam; fees for surveyors; application from Mr Hodge for a grant to the British Honduras Company Limited; property of the late Alexander Mathé);
• General Post Office (money order remittances; money order system; cost of postal service between Belize and New Orleans; delay in receiving despatches; timetable of North American packet service; imperial contribution towards Honduras Mail Packet Service);
• Royal Geographical Society (geography and geology of parts of British Honduras; expresses thanks for map of British Honduras);
• British Honduras Company Limited (grant);
• Board of Trade (import duties, dues, and taxes; certificates of certain vessels; copies of Mercantile Navy List for 1868 [not in item];
• Treasury (import duties, dues, and taxes; imperial contribution towards Honduras Mail Packet Service; postage between United Kingdom and British Honduras; £360 of Crown Revenue for road works, etc; naval defence act; repayment of money omitted from 1866 receipt from Colonial Revenue; Crown Fund account for 1867; mail packet service);
• War Office (supply of revolver pistols for frontier police; defence of colony; act relating to militia force; testimony of Lieutenant Governor to co-operation received from Brigadier General Harley; site for a military sanatorium - proposal with plan of part of St George Cay, scale of 80 feet to 1 inch);

• Mr Austin (pension commission);
• Cooper Abbs (asks for copy of map of British Honduras containing survey made by his son);
• Patrick Cunningham (requests appointment in police force in different colony);
• Richard James Corner (leave of absence; thanks expressed for receipt of copies of map of British Honduras);
• Charles Henry Day (requests another appointment; advance payment);
• G D'Arcy (death of Lance Corporal Hodge, 4th West India regiment, at British Honduras);
• Captain Delamere [?], 3rd West India regiment (asks for appointment as Colonial Secretary);
• A H Hall (grant of land);
• Colonel Harley (extract from Sir John Pakington's speech on returning thanks to army in Abyssinia, and copies of despatch on Harley's conduct in British Honduras);
• Margaret Leach (death of Mr Leach, Clerk of Courts);
• C B H Mitchell (requests position as Colonial Secretary; reports passage to Belize);
• Malcolm MacGregor (requests position);
• Richard Pine (position of Clerk of Courts and intended departure; particulars of the office);
• Sir Henry Storks (Mr Lynch's request for recommendation to be Colonial Secretary);
• G J Stace (application for position as Colonial Engineer);
• G Whitington (assistance for bank opening);
• E Weller (engraver and printer - bill).

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