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

CO 123/271

1911

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:

• Foreign Office (navigation of the River Hondo, complaint of F A Rurmals against the Honduras Government, Swan Island and the ill-treatment of British subjects, telegraph convention with Mexico, Guatemalan export duty, British subjects on Swan Island, exchange of territory with the United States of America, alleged violation of Guatemalan territory, Mr Chambers claim against the Honduras Government, affairs at Swan Island, Consul of Honduras at Belize, Honduras Consul at Belize, appointment of L E Cuevas as Consul at Honduras, fines on British vessels, Guatemalan boundary, inspection of Colonial Office records by Miss Mary Williams of the United States for educational purposes, establishment of a Court of Superior Jurisdiction at Payo Obispo);
• Home Office (Moving Pictures Ordnance 1910, draft Prison Rules Ordnance);
• Law Officers (constitution of the Legislative Council);
• House of Commons (Stan Creek Railway);
• Treasury (Colonial Stock Act 1900);
• War Office (reconnaissance survey).

• Local Government Board (public entertainments legislation and hazard of fire);
• General Post Office (telegraph service via Payo Obispo, money order accounts);
• Imperial Institute (British Honduras Court);
• Wandsworth Union (maintenance of the widow of Mr R H Franklin);
• Belize Estate and Produce Company (representation on the Legislative Council);
• Ordnance Survey (survey);
• Colonial Office (pier and tramway system);
• Trinity House (lighting of the coast).

• Bennett Bros (cohune nuts);
• W Collette (elective Town Board for Belize);
• W Carter (Assistant Superintendent of Police, Nigeria);
• C R Davies (extension of leave, examination for the Bar);
• Dr Mackey (course of Public Health);
• H J Perkins (transfer to West Africa);
• G Russell (cohune nuts);
• F A Runnals (petition to the King for pension);
• R Starkey (cotton cultivation, photographs enclosed);
• J Stott (cohune nuts and form for tender);
• Sir E Swayne (East Indian immigration or agricultural development, reconnaissance survey, Legislative Council, Indian indentured labour).

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