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

CO 137/190

1833

Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in 1833. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government departments):

• House of Lords and Commons (Commons: Council return; Laws regarding Churches and religious teachers, etc; Lords: copy of Lord Belmore's despatch);
• Admiralty (Sir W Cotton's passage; sailing of HMS Larne; branch packet to call at San Juan de Nicaragua; mail between Jamaica and Carthagena; non arrival of Opossum; sloop Cruize to be despatched to Port Royal; passage for Sir A Morcott);
• Agent (Acts allowed for colonising interior lands and forming a Police; requests interview on state of island; rumours regarding Emancipation; proceedings of Legislature; Council and Assembly dissolution; difference between legislatures; Private Act regarding patent granted to Mr Higgins and others; proposed measures as to enslaved persons to be sent; Mr Stanley to postpone motion; copy of Slavery Bill; remarks on Slavery Bill; alterations to Slavery Abolition Bill; properties and mortgages; requests interview; Militia Act; Slavery Bill; alterations in Slavery Bill; proposed amendments sent; enclosure on state of island; Legislature remarks on Slave Bill; certain Acts required; copy of Act sent in aid of West India Relief Act; Act to enable sum to be borrowed for service of island; inconvenience regarding new arrangement of packet);
• Deputies (Hodgson and Barrett: intentions of Government regarding island; 'Slave Question'; dissolution of Assembly; plan of Emancipation; principle of compensation; resolution passed at meeting of 'Proprietors'; copy of Bill for Abolition of Slavery; objects of mission of Assembly Committee; copy of petition to House of Commons for Liverpool Anti-Slavery Society);
• Commander in Chief (passage for Sir A Morcott; report on Courts Martial);
• Council Office (disallowing Act 3061 and leaving to operation Acts 3019-3022, 3024, 3025, 3027-3039, 3042, 3044, 3045, 3048-3050, 3053-3065, 3067, 3068; disallowing Act 3051 to amend the Rules and Articles of War; statement, 1831-32 clerk of enrolments; appoints Mr Miller to Council; disallowing Clergy Act; appoints Mr Salmon to Council; leaving Acts 3071-3087 to their operation; draft of proclamation on Colonial Church Missions);
• Foreign Office (letter from Ann Mahony; enquiry from Brockhurst; Jamaican and Mexican packet delayed; charges brought against Consul Buchanan);
• Home Office (disappearance of Mr Willcock's son);
• Law Officers (draft of grant proposed to be made of offices of secretary and registrar; cannot report on certain Courts Martial; remarks on trials by Courts Martial during 'slave rebellion');
• Mr Stephen (compensation for clerks of the peace and judge advocates attached to Militia for preparation of minutes taken on 'slave' trials; proclamation of Martial Law by Lord Belmore during late uprising; Portuguese slave schooner, wrecked off Old Harbour; dismissal of two magistrates from Commission of the Peace; propriety of sentence passed on David Mudie for 'rebellion'; judgement of Vice Admiralty on Portuguese slave ship);
• Ordinance (erection of barrack at Lucea; stores for barracks and troops; further to Lucea Barrack; repairs of barracks; construction of hospital at Maroon Town);
• Treasury (disapprobation of Sir W Cotton's proceedings regarding new barracks at Lucea and hospital at Maroon Town; sum for returns prepared by island secretary for House of Commons; colonial contribution for subsistence of troops; payment to Mr Ross for preparing Slave Returns; payment of Bishop's bill; conduct of Mr Fawcett of Customs at Savanna La Mar, dismissal from service; expenditure for troops; payment of account for returns of 'slave trials' prepared for House of Commons; subsistence of troops respecting island allowances; Bishop's bill; accommodation required for garrison; account of deputy judge advocate for copies of Court Martial trials; Lord Belmore's expenses; island secretary's account for preparing Slave Registry Returns; special allowances; payment of Magistrate Deane's bill; expense attendance on practice of contracting black persons for hire; termination of Mr Fawcett's suspension; directions for payment of bills for returns for House of Commons; aid towards erection of a place of worship; salaries of magistrates; papers regarding 'slaves' wrecked in Portuguese schooner in reference to bills drawn for their maintenance);
• War Office (Military appointments in Jamaica; admission of John Taylor to 'lunatic asylum'; salary of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Yorke; Jamaican soldiers Edward Rowbright(?) and Henry Chappell under Court Martial sentenced to transportation for 14 years);
• Miscellaneous Offices (Baptist Missionary: compensation for damage to chapels; Church Missionary: Clergy Law may be disallowed; Baptist Missionary: progress of school, copies of two affidavits, injuries inflicted on missionaries; State Paper Office: cannot find Toleration Law of 1671; College of Physicians: opinion of Council on Act for regulating Practice of Physic Surgery, establishment of college of physicians on island; Baptist Missionary: reparation for destruction of chapels; West India Revenue Committee: Act regarding contemplated loan; Wesleyan Missionary: loss sustained by Society as result of destruction of chapels).

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