Offices and Individuals. Letters received from various Government offices (departments),...

Offices and Individuals. Letters received from various Government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (passage of C E B Gardiner and his nephew, Mr Lucas Barrett, Mrs Barrett, cost of passage of certain passengers, Act to improve Royal Naval Hospital at Port Royal, passage of the Bishop of Kingston and a servant, Jamaica Slip Dock Company, dismissal of Mr Duff Registrar, disturbances at Falmouth, passage of Reverend John Davidson, passage of W Heslop Attorney General of Jamaica with his wife and a servant, passage of the wife of John Davidson, passage of S Darling, charge of £46 0s 5d for Land Tax Redemption, legality of the appointment of H M Hall, appointment of E Bancroft Lynch to be Registrar of the Vice Admiralty Court of Jamaica, appointment of H M Hall to be Marshal of the Vice Admiralty court of Jamaica, passage of H Walsh Stipendiary Magistrate and his wife);
• Crown Agents (scheme for taxation from Mauritius);
• Board of Trade (two items concerning the Act 'to amend the law of copyright in books and for the protection of British authors', the Act 'to impose additional duties of customs on certain articles of import', nature of the appointment of W Davis as shipping master, the Act 'to promote steam navigation between this island and the United States', an Act 'to provide for the imposition and payment of duties on Stills and for other purposes');
• Council Office (the leaving to operation of various Acts, the suspension of importation of foreign reprints of British Books);
• Foreign Office (Schooner Brisk, Mrs Margaret Brown of Ballisadene, the arrival of the Ex-Emperor of Haiti in Jamaica, a misaddressed letter, the appointments of E Lucas to be French Consular Agent at Kingston and J MacDougal to be French Consular Agent at New Brunswick, appointment of Y A Ebbeke to be Prussian Consul in Jamaica, appointment of M Pietersz to be Belgian Consul at Kingston, appointment of W Eden to be Swedish and Norwegian Vice Consul at the Cayman Islands, appointment of A Lavague to be Haitian consul at Kingston, two items concerning the appointment of I Winston to be United States Consul at Kingston, appointment of H B Hitchins to Swedish and Norwegian Vice-Consul at Kingston);
• Home Office (Act regulating savings banks, Knighthood of Bryan Edwards);
• India Office (decision of C Wood not to allot any cadet ships in the current year);
• Law Officers (case of the captured seamen of the Brisk, whether power to make appointments by governor can be revoked by the Crown, Acts for the establishment of ecclesiastical courts and to amend the laws relating to the clergy of the Island);
• Treasury (accounts of the colony, £100 to L Barrett to cover passage to Jamaica, Act 'to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the clergy of this island', Treasury chest certificates, the Act 'to impose additional duties of customs and Stills', return of copyright duties, £18 6s 0d paid to the Admiralty for C H Darling, A M Austin, his secretary and A Heslop, the Act 'to promote steam navigation between this island and the United States of America', £18 1s 1d paid to Mr Sawkins for passage, salary of R B Lynch Minister in Jamaica, Public Service Loan for Jamaica, silver coins in circulation in Jamaica, salary of Mr Walsh Stipendiary Magistrate of Jamaica, interest and commission on the £500,000 loan, half salary and passage allowance of Mr Crewe Stipendiary Magistrate, instruments required for the geological survey of the West Indies, expenses of distressed British Subjects conveyed by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to Jamaica, pension to A G Fyfe Stipendiary Magistrate);
• War Office (disturbance in Savannah La Mar, the Act 'registration of persons for militia duty', allowance to the non-commissioned officer acting as Garrison Gunner at Jamaica, despatching troops to Falmouth, arms supply to Jamaica militia, retention of troops despatched to Falmouth, Montego Bay or Lucea);
• Post Office (the abolition of the post of Surveyor of the Post Office in Jamaica, governor's prepaying for sent packages);
• Geological Survey Office (salaries of Mr Wall and Mr Sawkins);
• Office of Commissioners in Lunacy (state of the Lunatic Asylum of Jamaica, investigation of the matter, salary of an expert in Lunatic care, copies of correspondence to be sent to Dr Bowerbank, the governor of Jamaica and the secretary of state for the colonies, appointment of R Osborne to be Consulting Surgeon at the Kingston Lunatic Asylum, commissioners' report that the charges have been fully and fairly enquired into, thanks for forwarded correspondence);
• Society of Arts (thanks for the letter from the Royal Society of Arts in Jamaica stating its resources).

Individuals:

• Anonymous (pamphlet on 'The Florence Hall Controversy and Falmouth Riots');
• M Brown (heir of Charles Finigan's property, petitions defying any claims against her);
• L Barrett (requests passage to Jamaica with advance for geological survey, map purchase and request for salary advance, list of equipment for survey of Jamaica, geologists' salaries, assistant geologist's passage to Jamaica from Trinidad);
• L J Bowerbank (investigation of observations on the Lunatic Asylum);
• F S Bradshaw (leave of absence);
• H B Barnett (leave of absence);
• E P Campbell (Governor Darling's libel against her husband D Campbell);
• H Crewe (extension to leave of absence);
• Messrs Currie and Williams (Acts passed in Jamaica);
• J A M Davidson (thanks for his extended leave, stipend, passage to Jamaica);
• R Emery (increase of pension);
• A Fyfe (petition of Henry Barkly);
• A B Gardiner (passage to Jamaica);
• J Hoare (estate of J P Kelly);
• Messrs Hook, Street and Guttens (death of T O'Dillon Stipendiary Magistrate Jamaica);
• Bishop of Jamaica (Bishop of Kingston's disagreement with Governor Darling, reports ill health, extension of leave for Reverend Howell Prichard);
• Bishop of Kingston (promotion of church discipline);
• E Leahy (appointment as Engineer and Architect);
• I Morce (employment outside of the West Indies, extension of leave of absence);
• T Nensam (medical position in Jamaica);
• R A O'Reilly (leave of absence);
• H O'Connell (enquires as to son P C Norton's death);
• Phillips (survey of Jamaica);
• Archdeacon R Panton (lists Clergy's salaries);
• H Prichard (extension of leave);
• P Readdy (Bryan Finigan);
• H Rogers (aid grant);
• R Simpson (medical appointment);
• G Sutcliffe (vacancies for Surgeons in Jamaica and other colonies);
• C Voysey (Jamaica Clergy Bill);
• I Wilkinson (application for preferment, extension of leave);
• H Walsh (reports arrival in England, payment of salary).

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