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

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

• Admiralty (visit of Commissioner, Guano exports, passage of Archdeacon Williams, entertainment of guests on board the Basilisk, passage of Mr Porteous, passage of Robert Emery, passage of F Dawson, passage of Mr Leahy);
• Board of Trade (appointment of Mr Sankey, copyright law, import and export duties);
• Council Offices (passing of certain laws);
• Foreign Office (appointment of James Davidson as Vice-Consul for France, appointment of Simon Emanuel Pieterze as Vice-Consul for Holland, Cuban slave trade, treatment of British schooner SS Buite, immigration into Jamaica, assignment of property, judicial documents);
• Home Office (care of vagrant children);
• Law Officers (ecclesiastical powers, money vote in the Assembly);
• Parliament (Act of Jamaica);
• Treasury (payment of Government loan, allowance to R Emery, sinking fund, passages by sea, pension to R Emery, repair to roads and bridges, regulations for transmission of printed paper, collection of taxes, Mr Chitty's pension, account of naval services, transference of main roads to Commissioners, cost of entertainment on board HMS Basilisk, resignation of R Emery as Stipendiary Magistrate, payment of remittances from guaranteed loans, payment of Jamaica pensions, deductions from future payments to R Emery);
• War Office (female nurses, alterations in the barracks at Fort Charles, transfer of fort and barracks to north side of the Island, local Acts, Secretary of State for War, water-tanks at Fort Augusta);
• General Post Office (nomination of Mr Brymer to office of Chief Clerk, stationing of white troops, error in mail from London, state of postal system, conduct of Deputy Postmaster General, report from Receiver and Accountant General, suppression of letter content).

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