Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the...

Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in 1832. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government departments):

• House of Commons (Assembly Committee report into present situation of sugar planters, copies of patents of land; proclamations issued during 'rebellion'; orders for papers regarding enslaved persons George Ancle and Samuel Siveney, and abolishing whipping of 'females'; Bishop's reports on the religious instruction of the 'Coloured and Slave population' and of the number of churches; latest information on 'rebellion'; Manumission returns 1817-1830 ; abstract of laws relating to churches and chapels, etc; return of teachers and preachers connected with the 'Missionary establishment'; return of Africans from Jamaica, Assembly proceedings to prevent the importation of enslaved persons, admission of 'slave evidence', 'Slave' births in Barbados and Antigua, Council Slave Report; return of enslaved peoples killed in uprising, minutes of evidence taken on trials of enslaved persons and punishments issued; trial of Ancle and Siveney, Law for abolishing whipping 'females'; Assembly Committee report into uprising; return of 'African Creoles' on 76 estates in Trelawny; withholding assent to Act imposing duties on importation of 'slaves'; letter to Bishop on religious instruction of 'negroes', minutes of evidence on trial of Williams, punishment of two female enslaved persons belonging to Mr Jackson, statements of the Baptist Missionary; return of the numbers and ages of African and Creole population; sundry Slave Returns);
• Admiralty (persons accompanying Lord Mulgrave; Mulgrave appointed vice admiral; convoy taking Mulgrave will take Belmore; assistance offered by Navy in suppression of the 'insurrection'; regiment from Barbados to Jamaica; Commodore Farquhar for an explanation regarding letter on late uprising; passage of Belmore; payment of Belmore's passage during uprising; allowance for entertaining Sir Willoughby Cotton; passage of a poor woman and her three children; further to Commodore Farquhar; inconvenience of Bishop's claim to the accommodation of ships of war; additional battalion from Bermuda; disposition of squadron to check any 'disturbances');
• Agent (wishes appointment of House of Lords Committee at insistence of Government; applies for Assembly Report; apprehension of continuance of Martial Law; Bishops' correspondence regarding Ecclesiastical Estate in Jamaica; papers for Committee on West India Affairs; detention of mail; requests interview with Lords Grey and Goderich; intended motion to be made in the House; addresses of Assembly; financial difficulties of Jamaica; repayment of the loan under Relief Bill; relief of island; doubts regarding certain Acts of the Legislature of 1830 and 1831; proceeds of certain duties to secure repayment of the principal and interest loan; remarks on Transient Traders Act; requests interview for Messrs Barrett and Hodgeson; Barrett and Hodgeson represent grievances);
• Commander in Chief (regiments from Bermuda; measures adopted for 'suprressing the rebellion'; barrack hospital accommodation; increasing military force; inconvenience of Cotton not being appointed lieutenant governor; assistance in emergency from Bermuda; claim of Patch to pension);
• Council Office (order to prepare commission; appointment of Attorney General O'Reilly, to the Council)
• India Office (receipt of correspondence sent in error);
• Foreign Office (complaint of the governor of New Granda [Columbia] regarding libels printed in Jamaica Gazette; comments on reported overtures from Jamaica to US government);
• Home Office (transportation of Horatio Sandys and A Simpson; disappearance of Fort Willcock);
• Law Officers (opinion on case of freedom of religious worship amongst protestant worshipers);
• Ordinance (transfer of barracks; repairs for barracks; transfer of barracks to Ordinance Department; estimate for erection of barracks at Lucea; tents for troops; ordinance stores and tents);
• Treasury (seizure of schooner Bristol at Prot Royal; Bishop's bill; island checks for military supplies; settlement of Mr Grenville's claim; Mr Ross' bill; provision for troops; claim of Mr Stewart for payment for work in House of Commons; sum charged for land carriage of baggage; repairs to barracks, island checks; seizure of goods of American schooner; accounts required of the finances and revenue; report from Relief Commissioners; sums paid over military chest for repairs to barracks; payment of troops; suspension of Mr Fawcett, Customs; security of loan; salary of clergymen; Bishop's bill);
• Miscellaneous Offices (Post Office: packet regulations; North and South American Association: Mexican packet; Post Office: tranquillity of island; Slave Registry: returns of 'Africans and Creoles' belonging to 76 estates in Trelawny; West India Association: 'slave insurrection', detention of packet).

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