Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence received from 'offices'...

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on subjects concerning British Honduras. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices:

• House of Commons (troops, constabulary, and telegraph communications, withdrawal of troops);
• Admiralty (riot at Belize, disturbances, state of affairs, Santa Cruz Indians, HMS Tartar, war vessel at Belize);
• Crown Agents (demonetised coin, Belize Improvement Loan 1885 and sinking fund, railway construction, Imperial Institute, bank notes, postage stamps for sale, Panama straw hat, reports on vital statistics and public health, railway survey, Stann Creek to western frontier, clay sample, mail service, W H King agreement as Mounted Sergeant of the Constabulary, Imperial Institute, railway survey, account of colony);
• Board of Trade (light at Bokel Cay);
• Treasury (riots at Belize, police and pensionable service, troops and the colonial allowance, government note issue currency);
• Foreign Office (timber trade with Yucatan, Nicaragua canal bill [with map], Mexican boundary, Mexican customs regulations, Vice Consul at Belize, Messrs Cramer's claim against Guatemala, International Customs Tariff Bureau, sanitary condition of Pernamuco, violation of Guatemalan territory, Nicaragua and the claim of J Tennyson, Bay Islands petition, Santa Cruz 'Indians', case of Ferdinand Ende, seizure of the Laura Louise at Ruatan, murder of Charles Young, Guatemalan frontier and the alleged infraction of Colonial Police);
• Home Office (prison diet);
• War Office (disturbances, riots at Belize, expenses for detachment of troops, military prisoners at Belize, retention of troops, withdrawal of troops, recruits for constabulary and police, troops and allowances and expenditure, Uniform Ordinance, application from Sergeant W H King for Mounted Sergeant in the British Honduras Constabulary, extra cost of troops, Sergeant Major D Paterson's Long Service and Good Conduct Medal is sanctioned);
• Geological Museum (reconnaissance survey of British Honduras by Mr Barrington Brown);
• Metropolitan Police (officers for Civil Police, R Wyatt and J Darling, officers for police and expenses);
• Kew Gardens (Panama straw hats, resin);
• British Honduras Syndicate Limited (in favour of retention of troops, proposed railway);
• Meteorological Office (meteorological returns);
• Lloyds (wreck of Freddie M);
• Merchant Shippers Company (telegraph construction);
• Colonial Bank (branch bank in colony).

• W J Anderson (application for the appointment of Chief Justice at Jamaica);
• D D Barnes (appointment of Superintendent of the Civil Police);
• Dr C J Brown (Mr T P C Cumming);
• Major J C Bayly (application for promotion, application for appointment of Inspector General of Police at Barbados);
• J H Benson (Mr J H Davidson-Houston);
• P T Carpenter (application for transfer to another colony);
• T P C Cummings (resignation);
• J H Davidson-Houston (arrival on leave, question of terminating appointment, Kumasi expedition);
• A Gosling (railway to western frontier and Mr J Magee);
• S A Harris (application for appointment of Surveyor General at the Bahamas);
• J H H Harrison (extension of leave to take a winter course at the University College, instruction on hygiene and public health);
• C J Hunter (railway);
• Lady Harley (Royal Bounty);
• T W Mark (telegraphic communication);
• Sir A Moloney (leave on the grounds of ill health, Public Health Ordinance 1894, troops and the colonial allowance, extension of leave, commissioner of currency, attendants at the Public Institute and the Lunatic Asylum, Dr J H H Harrison and extension of leave, Lieutenant H T P Corbally appointment as Aide de Camp, return to the colony and advance);
• Scrutton Sons & Company (riots at Belize, claim for the deviation of the SS Spheroid proceeding to England via Jamaica).

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