Offices and Individuals. Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other...

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

Offices:

• Admiralty (Vice Admiralty records, claim for passages, quarantine regulations at Naval Hospital, Morant Bay, ship Imaum gift to local government);
• Council Office (appointments, implementation of Acts);
• Foreign Office (extradition of John Dean, Haitian conspirators, Swedish Vice-Consul, immigration into the colony);
• Law Officers (legal position of Cayman Islands);
• West Indian Incumbent Estates Commission (chargeable fees, Incumbent Estates Act);
• Wellington College (will of John Pillon);
• Lunacy Commission (lunatic asylum regulations, Warden and Matron of Lunatic Asylum, suggested additional enquiries, appointment of officers);
• Kew Gardens (advance of salaries, report of Commissioners);
• Indian Board (mortality rates);
• Royal College of Physicians (proposed inquiry);
• Post Office (pillar letter boxes);
• Board of Trade (report on import duties);
• Treasury (pension to Mr Daughty, remittances under Guaranteed Loan, census expenses, passage allowance, pension to Mr Walsh, letters patent expenses, Governor's salary, supply and appropriation Act, import duties, copyright duties, return passage expenses and pension to Mr Walsh, troop service, case of Mr Daughty, half-salary to Mr Barrett, supply of stationery, colonial balance);
• War Office (transfer of forts and barracks, arms for volunteers, Volunteer Militia Act, Rifle Corps, claim for coal and stores to Mail Steam Packet Company, commission for Mr Nairne's son, Mr Berry's employment in Engineer's Department, sentry at Receiver General's office).

Individuals:

• Robert Allaway (enquiry as to Joseph Allaway);
• Reverend Charles Angell (extension of leave of absence);
• Mr Alexander (enquiry as to Peter Hamilton);
• George Ashton (letter to the Governor);
• George Braine (extension of leave of absence, passages);
• May Brown (property);
• Jane Bell (further enquiry as to R Bell);
• Lieutenant Colonel Brown (case of Reverend W Hylton);
• L Barrett (salary, leave of absence, departure, passage);
• Patrick Casey (property of Laurence Volan);
• Edward Chitly (enquiry regarding exports);
• R Crawshaw (property of Thomas Crawshaw);
• Mr Chamberlaine (advance);
• Henry Clyne (memorial);
• Governor Charles Henry Darling (salary, arrival in England, addresses to him, international exhibition, Dr Fiddes, management of hospitals, colonial services, lunatic asylum, Guano deposit, case of Mr Daughty, commission for Mr Strain's son, case of Mr Berry, case of Mr Duff, Island's debt, refusal of enlistment, loan settlement bill, military defence, absent allowance to Mr Barrett, appointment of Mr Morales, report into public servants, appointment of Mr Rogers, continuance as Governor);
• John Eyre (appointment as Lieutenant Governor, passage for family);
• George W Gordon (Commissioner of the Peace, report in his case);
• Charles Gilbert (property of W B Haylock);
• William Hylton (leave of absence);
• Reverend George Johnson Handfield (leave of absence);
• Reverend W H Ingle (leave of absence);
• The Bank of Jamaica (Reverend W Rowe, letters patent);
• Mrs Keech (interview with Governor Darling);
• Bishop of Kingston (Reverend W Hylton's leave of absence, Reverend W Rowe, charges against employers of labourers);
• Daniel W Kelly (leave of absence);
• Louis Lindon (address to constituency);
• D Lee (Government remittance);
• John Mace (appointment in a milder climate);
• E H C Monkton (Guano Islands);
• C Morales (colonial employment);
• W Foster March (resolutions passed);
• Henry Rudd (property of Mr Jackson);
• Susan Scott (status of Governor);
• Major General Taylor (recall from command);
• Henry Walsh (arrival in colony);
• I Willis (appointment as chaplain of penitentiary).

Topics

International

Labour

Mental illness

Army

Trade and commerce

Migration

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Weapons

Coal

Debt

Navy

Census

Communications

Events and exhibitions

Hospitals

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Prisons