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 1835. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government departments):

• House of Commons (Returns of periods of residence of the bishops of Jamaica and Barbados);
• Admiralty (conveyance of mail; introduction of Chinese labourers; passage for stipendiary magistrate; expense of bishop's entertainment; state of Dee steam ship; fees of vice admiralty registrar; passage money paid to commanders of branch steam packets; expense of Lord Sligo's visit to parts of island; duties of Admiralty Court registrar being performed by deputy; expense of conveying convicts);
• Agent (Slavery Abolition Bill; appeal by Legislature against certain rules of the Compensation Commissioners; correspondence with Mr Rice; answer of Committee of Correspondence on latter; subjects proposed to bring under secretary of state; late arrival of Mr Hay's letter; refusal of inspection by Lord Sligo of certain correspondence; resolution of Assembly on governor's salary, reports on Assembly committee on compensation claim by persons whose slaves were omitted to be registered, conduct of General Post Office; costs of appeal by Legislature against Compensation Commissioners; German emigrants from Bremen; costs of Legislature appeal against Compensation Commissioners; island postage; management of Post Office; Lord Sligo's communication to Assembly; public objection to Act of last session; dissolution of Assembly; practice of reading messages to governor previous to presentation of address);
• West India Committee (critical state of island);
• Commander in Chief (conduct of officers from St Ann's Western Regiment of Militia; Sligo's proposal regarding military medical department, treatment of invalids of naval and military forces; supply of water to troops; departure of Colonel Smelt for Jamaica);
• Board of Trade (case of Mrs Thompsons Merril; letter from Messrs Mitchell regarding Bill imposing duty on imports);
• Foreign Office (petition from person named Maillet regarding property at Kingston; arms and ammunition should be supplied to the Venezuelans; not advisable to employ Lieutenant Colonel Gregg on mission to enquire into Venezuela);
• Law Office (suggests Board of Enquiry instead of Court Martial to investigate certain case; competency of Assize Court; certain unregistered enslaved persons in Grand Cayman and Jamaica became entitled to freedom from 1 August; Act consolidating and amending Laws regarding Clergy; verdicts in case of Briggs and Rodriguez; enslaved persons omitted in Registry of 1832 are entitled to unqualified freedom);
• Board of Ordinance (propose to relinquish Fort Nugent and Rockfort Barracks to the colony; delimitation of military works);
• Treasury (passage of stipendiary magistrates, including Lieutenant Walsh; payment of stipendiary magistrates; allowances to stipendiary magistrates; reimbursing stipendiary magistrates' postage expense; report of the Compensation Commissioners regarding pay of secretary; advertisement of Thomas Black; payment of Stipendiary Magistrate Lloyd; over-payment of Stipendiary Magistrate Baynes; pay issued to special magistrates; reimbursement of Stipendiary Magistrate Oldry; Forbes' claim for repayment; Bishop's bill; law expenses attending to prosecution of slave ship Heroine; cannot appoint Captain Lyon in Customs; Bishop's expenses; over-payment of salary made to Captain Baynes; establishment of a branch Bank of England in Jamaica, custody of funds of Court of Chancery; contingent expenses of non-stipendiary special magistrates; placing special justices in general Commission of the Peace; report of Assembly on Post Office; Bishop instructed to make refund; fraud perpetrated by Messrs Anderson and Phillpotts; costs of appeal against rules of the Compensation Commissioners; Stipendiary Magistrate Browne's passage; colonial magistrates empowered to act as special justices; expenses of prosecution against a stipendiary magistrate; Post Office under consideration; passage of Stipendiary Magistrate Fitzgerald; expense incurred by governors in visiting the islands under their governance; Mr Hill may be appointed as teacher at Kingston; fee owing to J Donbinson; expenses of ancillary Compensation Commissioners; placing troops on same footing as that of troops in Windward and Leeward Island command; passage for Stipendiary Magistrate Hulmes; passage for Captain Pell; payment to Stipendiary Magistrate Stewart; arrears of advertisement duty, Mr Odell; salaries of bishops and clergy; provisions to soldiers; advance to Rev Sweeney; payment to Stipendiary Magistrate Browne; cannot confirm Mr Hamilton in office of waiter and searcher at Kingston; advertisement regarding Mr Black; postage on official correspondence; barracks for detachment of troops at Caymans; postage expenses of stipendiary magistrates; advertisement in Jamaican newspapers; duties on supplies for troops; instructions to Lord Sligo for his guidance on meeting of Assembly; postage of governor and secretary; abolition of Lord Bloomfield's office of governor of Fort Charles; suggestions respecting office Mr Grenville; reimbursement of Stipendiary Magistrate Fitzgerald; Stipendiary Magistrate Colebrooke's passage; claim of Messrs Atkinson and Hosier arising out of their contract for providing pioneers for the military service; Pioneer Service; cannot relax legislation regarding ineligibility from age in favour of searcher at Kingston; Mr Burge's claim on behalf of Jamaica to be relieved from paying appeal costs against certain rules of Compensation Commissioners);
• War Office (raising a force to be employed as a permanent Police; table allowances of the general officer commissary; salary of the general commissary; salary of Colonel Doyle);
• Commissioners of Compensation (assistant commanders giving information to Assembly; compensation claims for enslaved persons at the Caymans for unregistered enslaved persons at Jamaica; counter claims; compensation for unregistered slaves; certificates of claims in St Catherines, St Dorothy, St John, St Thomas in the Vale, St Mary, St Anne; certificates and lists of claims no 27-35; receipt of counter claims; adjudication of uncontested claims; salary assigned to Mr Murphy and recovery of fees appropriated to himself; proceedings of the auxiliary Board);

Miscellaneous Offices:

• Baptist Missionary Society (imprisonment of Rev Abbott; religious education; instruction of the labouring classes; statement regarding case of apprentice J I Higgen);
• Post Office (state of Post Office; extract of a letter from Jamaica; petition from R Ashburne; proposal that Assembly have control of Post Office);
• Church Missionary Society (missionaries' labours);
• Irish Office (information regarding case of Mr Dundas);
• Royal College of Surgeons (practice of physic surgery);
• British and Jamaica School Society (Jamaica Metropolitan School);
• Packet Agent (despatches delivered Colonel McLeod).

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