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:

• Crown Agents (Stann Creek and Punta Gorda Railways, Engineer W Boyd, railway proposals, consulting engineer and dredger engineer, report on yellow fever by Professor Boyce, security of Bank of British Honduras);
• Council Office (appeal case of George D Emery Company versus Wells, the King versus Alexander Porter);
• Foreign Office (the communication with Mexico, boundary between Guatemala and British Honduras, telecommunication with Mexico and the United States of America, official visit of President of Mexico to Yucatan, proposed appointment of a Vice Consul at Puerto Barrios, navigation of the Hondo River, claim of T B Shaw against Honduran Government, sanitary condition of the Panama canal zone, consular officer at La Ceiba, consular officer for Bay Islands, development of Peten at Guatemala, landing of Mexicans in search of escaped prisoner, quarantine restrictions in Louisiana, dredging of the Hondo River, notification of quarantine diseases, telecommunication convention between Mexico and British Honduras, federal quarantine stations in southern ports of the United States, violation of British Honduras territory by Mexican soldiers, British Honduras, yellow fever reports from Bogota);
• Law Officers (Extradition Act 1870 and the case of F C Tejeda);
• Parliament (exports from Stann Creek and Punta Gorda 1904 and 1905);
• Board of Trade (Wigham Lights);
• War Office (reclamation of land at Newtown Barracks, drill instructor of volunteers, retired volunteer officers).

• Belize Estate and Produce Company (navigation of the River Hondo);
• British Honduras Syndicate Limited (sketch map of properties owned and the proposed route of the government railway extension);
• Imperial Institute (cotton from Corosal district);
• Colonial Office (Professor Bryce's report on yellow fever, railway construction, Chief Justice F M Maxwell);
• General Post Office (telecommunication with the United Kingdom);
• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (Professor Boyce's report on yellow fever);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (mail service).

• Professor R Boyce (yellow fever, sanitary measures at Stann Creek, Dr Eyles and sanitary measures, mosquito destruction ordinance, water supply ordnance, health of Stann Creek, quarantine laws, report on British Honduras, report on yellow fever, yellow fever in Central America, sanitary conditions at Bocas del Toro, quarantine restrictions in Louisiana and correspondence);
• E J Byrne (rubber concession);
• G C Bell (exchange of appointment with H de Pass of Trinidad, extension of leave);
• H C Burchell (report on the sanitation of Belize);
• S Cuthbert (development of Stann Creek and Punta Gorda railways, retirement of Dr Eyles, foreign mails service);
• C T Hunter (railway schemes, Stann Creek and Toledo railway schemes);
• A M Lane (Stann Creek tramway);
• N W Lobb (development of the colony);
• Sir W L Lewis (retirement);
• W Mitchell Thompson MP (railway schemes);
• Sir P Manson, Medical Adviser (H C Jeffrey's for service as a Medical Officer, bush clearing around Belize);
• R W Perks (railway to Guatemala, railway and pier at Stann Creek);
• R W Starkey (railway construction);
• Sir E B Sweet Escott (Mr Byrne's application for rubber concession, Stann Creek railway);
• G Wilson (railway from Belize to Mexican frontier).

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