Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) relating...

CO 137/252

1840

Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

• House of Commons (orders);
• Admiralty (rules and regulations Vice Admiralty Court; hulk for reception of convicts; payment of Sir C Metcalf's journey; no hulk can be appropriated as prison);
• Agent (rum duties; papers to be moved; summary of subjects brought under Lord John Russell's notice; postage; conciliatory proceedings of Assembly; resolutions passed at a meeting of West India Proprietors & Planters; reply to communication with secretary of state; Queen's marriage; debt of £200,000; requests interview on state of affairs; report on wheat tillage in Barbados; Colonial Judicature Act; export of camels to West Indies; copies of Laws passed);
• Judicature Act (plan and memoranda);
• Commander in Chief (Sir W Gomm's residence; Rose Hill barracks; report on West India Regiment; interchange of 'black' troops; increase of 'black' troops; barracks);
• Privy Council Office (Acts: disallowing no 3319, 'an Act for establishing a Court of Common Pleas, St Catherine', no 3320 'to revive and continue in force an Act….for Supreme Court of Judicature to grant special juries subsistence to witnesses', no 3337 'an Act for reviving Laws relating to clergy and to invest Bishop with Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction'; allowing Acts nos 3319, 3320, & 3337);
• Board of Trade (Mr Clarke may import certain plants resembling tea plant on same rate of duty; Acts nos 3321 & 3359 import and export duty, may be left to operation, Bank Act no 3344 to be disallowed; no objection to Act no 3353; report on plan of government for raising funds by a duty on British Manufactures to build a penitentiary; Acts no 3353, 3359, 3324-3326, 3360-3364; Steam Communication Act no 3358, Duty on flour for Troops Act, no 3361; memorandum on Acts nos 3319, 3320, 3337);
• Foreign Office (regarding slave ship Rosalia Habanaira; regarding slave ship Scorpio at Sierra Leone; slave ship Victoria at Sierra Leone; Acts and treaties regarding suppression of the Slave Trade; export of camels to West Indies; slavery case of American schooner Brilliant wrecked on coast of Cuba and plundered by Maid of Milk; inspector of prisons report; report on Police Act; report on Prisons Act, no 3341; certain papers being laid before Parliament);
• Law Officers (Criminal Law Act no 3284; opinion on Acts nos 3306, 3323, 3324, 3325, 3326; report on Wills Act no 3351; administration of Justice Bill no 3345; report on imprisonment for debt Act, no 3349);
• Board of Ordnance (barracks);
• War Office (barracks; religious instruction to Roman Catholic soldiers; Major Darling's appointments);
• Treasury (Sir L Smith's passage & salary; salary to secretary; Bishop's salary; duty on flour imported for troops; postage; light house on Morant Point; barrack at Maroon Town; Sir Gomm's residence; expenses for Captain of Spanish schooner Cuidad Cubana; report on Acts nos 3311, 3317, 3314, 3332, 3327, 3340; payments to stipendiaries; report of Acts nos 3358 & 3361; bill drawn by Bishop; report on Acts nos 3321 & 3359; Africans of Isabellita, papers from collector of Customs; report on Act no 3353; expenditure for Africans landed from slave ship Feliz; expenses of liberated Africans, remarks on bill; Mr Anderson's claims for payment; audit on Mr Roby's accounts; currency; barracks at Maroon Town);
• Colonial Bank (Bank Act; Currency Act; issue of certain notes to the Colonial Bank);
• Baptist Missionary Society (conduct of Sir C Metcalfe; case of Reverend S Oughton; case of Mr Ward; Dissenters Marriage Act);
• British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society (stipendiary magistrates reports; state of the labourers; requests interview on certain Laws; memorial against certain Laws; emigrant vessel about to sail from Limerick);
• Miscellaneous Offices (Excise: Bill for regulating hawkers and pedlars to solicitor for Stamps and Taxes; Stamps & Taxes: report on Hawkers Bill; Post Office: internal post, cannot comply with request to send Parochial Registers free of postage; Wesleyan Society: new Marriage Act; Land Board: plan to form a society to promote emigration to Jamaica, Act to encourage emigration; West India Immigration Society: grant of land).

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