Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from Miscellaneous...

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from Miscellaneous Offices and Individuals on matters relating to British Honduras. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices:

• Admiralty (visit of HMS Sphynx to British Honduras, contract for mail service between Kingston and Belize, survey of the Duncan Channel and Bulk Head Flats, attack on the British Regiment by Yucatan Indians at Orange Walk);
• Crown Agents (Honduras postal service, mail service between Jamaica and Honduras, requisition for cement and lime, immigration detentions, mail contract, proposed change of the trustees of the loan sinking fund, authority to pay Mr Corner's pension, steam launch for local Government, payment of mail subsidy, offer for sale by Messrs Anderson and Company of a steam lighter or barge, investments of funds received on account of sinking fund of the immigration loan, difficulty experienced in sending funds to England);
• Board of Trade (reported loss of the schooner Pauline, claim of reimbursement of Messrs Hay and Company of the dues paid on account of their vessel);
• India Office (fresh supply of mahogany and log wood seeds to the Madras Government);
• Law Officers (opinion as to whether British Honduras forms part of the Diocese of Jamaica and subject to the jurisdiction of the Bishop of that Diocese);
• Treasury (abuse of the money order system, Ordinance no 22 imposing import and excise duties);
• Foreign Office (appointment of Mr A C Prindle as Commercial Agent for the United States at Belize in British Honduras, appointment of Don Juan E Mutrie as Guatemalan Consul at Belize, threatened invasion of Spanish Honduras by Guatemala, proposed railway from Guatemala to Belize, road from Guatemala to the sea coast of British Honduras, dues imposed on the SS Vale of Boston, provisional recognition of Mr Alexander Morrice as Consul for Costa Rica, recent Indian raids on British Honduras, application from the inhabitants of Ruatan for the appointment there of a British Vice Consul, alleged hostile preparations against Guatemala in Belize and Jamaica);
• Home Office (orders for Mr K Cockburn's admission to view the prisons);
• War Office (supervision of military works and buildings by the Colonial Engineer or Surveyor, liquidation of military liabilities of the colony, information as to whether there is a competent Colonial Engineer or Surveyor in the Colony, military forces in the colony);
• Government Emigration Board (application for 500 coolies from India, Ordinance to protect young persons and labourers from the impositions of the emigration agents, Mr Faber's appointment to the Civil Service, exportation of labourers from Barbados to Honduras, proposed appointment of a Crown Surveyor);
• General Post office (bag of missing despatches enclosed in the mail for New York, Honduras mail service, imperial contributions for the mail subsidy for the last quarters, claim on account of the postal service, account of mail service between the imperial and the local Government, postage on letters sent between Belize and the British West India Colonies via Jamaica);
• British Honduras Company Limited (observations made by Colonel Harley at the closing of the British Honduras industrial exhibition, urgent need of more efficient protection of British settlers against the Indians);
• Patent Office (application for copies of certain patent acts).

• J Blockley (application for extension of leave);
• M W Cairns (amalgamation of the Crown and the Colonial Revenue, his departure from Southampton to Honduras, draft Ordinance for the introduction of agricultural labourers from Barbados);
• Samuel Cockburn (his arrival on leave of absence, extension of leave on medical grounds, permission to visit jails and penitentiaries);
• Reverend Richard Dawson (application for extension of leave on medical grounds, intention to apply for leave to retire, gratitude for the grant of an allowance pending the decision as to his pension);
• A Dillet (application for extension of leave);
• Edward L Harrison (application for the post of Chief Justice of Honduras on behalf of his friend R J Walett);
• Colonel Harley (Ordinance 15 of 1872 in protection of young person and labourers);
• John Hay and Company (dues charged at Belize);
• Benito Novella and Company (naturalisation certificate of Don Francisco Camoryano obtained in Belize);
• Edward Sheldon (Ordinance 4 of 1872 amending the immigration law of 1864);
• Young, Harrison and Bevan (competition of foreign capitalists in the labour market).

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