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

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

• Crown Agents (oil rights of Mr D Elliott Alves, railway, Ordnance 28 of 1921 refers to the Treasury, the late Mr J L Smyth, Scottish American Company British status, public buildings at Belize, Ordnance 29 of 1922 the loan amendment);
• Foreign Office (Telegraph Convention with Mexico, sale of arms by British Honduras to Central American Republics, visa requirements for British Honduras);
• Home Office (H E Oswald and the revocation of naturalisation certificate, William Henry Hoar and his superannuation);
• Medical Advisers (the health of Mr Iguacio Alejandro Salido, Dr T W F Gann);
• Board of Trade (coastal and river trade - passenger vessels draft ordnance 1921);
• Treasury (Guatemala boundary, reciprocal income tax with the United States of America, the cost to despatch of British troops to Belize, retirement and pension of W H Hoar, civil disturbances in 1919 and the cost of troops, loan for the water supply and the guarantee of the British Government).

• General Post Office (Telegraph Convention with Mexico, application to import wireless telephone apparatus for communication between Belize and Corozal);
• Petroleum Department (inflammable liquids ordnance 1921 with applications for oil rights and maps, geological survey, Mr Ower's geological report on the unfavourable conditions for prospecting for oil);
• Ministry of Pensions (pension of Mr I A Sabido late British West Indies Regiment);
• British Museum (protection of birds);
• Colonial Office (appointment of G S Busby as Land Surveyor, appointment of Mr C P Stutchbury as Land Surveyor, outbreak of yellow fever, forestry rights owned by an American syndicate, 'Between Two Continents' and derogatory statements regarding the people of the colony);
• Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Ordinance 6 of 1922 - contagious diseases among animals);
• Colonial Audit Department (annual accounts 1919-20, appointment of auditor and the recommendation of Mr P J A Hamilton, W C Hummocks appointment as Forestry Officer);
• Scottish American Oil Transport Company Limited (licence to prospect for oil to be abandoned due to an unfavourable report on the land);
• Department of Overseas Trade (silk grass industry).

• B Bradley (proposals for the construction of the railway);
• Captain Stanley H Bell (trade in cohune nuts);
• W Edwards (the cultivation of artificial sponge);
• Dr John W Evans (geological survey, oil report by Mr Wilmoth);
• Dr T Gann (outbreak of yellow fever);
• C Hummel (report on afforestation, his leave and pay, report on the forests, appointment of Conservator of Forests);
• W H Hoar (pension);
• Sir Eyre Hutson (extension of leave, mail service between Belize and British Honduras, public health administration, 'negro' colonisation, the amalgamation of the Governor's and Colonial Secretary's office, constitutional reform, separation of the offices of Treasurer and Collector of Customs, his return to duty after extended leave, Medical Officer of Health, Matthew Alexander Murphy's application for promotion, investigation into undiagnosed fever, constitutional reform);
• H B Hetherington (application for a medical appointment in Nyasaland);
• Mr H Matthews (resignation due to ill health);
• W L McKinstry (applies for a transfer to another colony);
• S B Merrick (mail and passenger boat for Belize to northern ports);
• Sir R W Perks (funds for a railway for Belize to Flores-in-Peter);
• Sir R B Roden (pension increase);
• Lieutenant Colonel M Smith (advance of salary);
• J A Sabido (disability pension);
• Sir S Stockman (appointment of a veterinary surgeon);
• G F P Worthington (claim against the colonial government);
• S G Warner (widows and orphan's pension).

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