Offices and Individuals. Letters from 'offices' (Government Departments and Individuals)...

Offices and Individuals. Letters from 'offices' (Government Departments and Individuals) relating to the West Indies, 1864. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (anti-slavery meeting, occupation of Guano Islands, ship dock, Kingston penitentiary, mail to Belize);
• Crown Agents (passage of C B Brown);
• Foreign Office (sovereignty of Pedro Cays, Danish Consul's claim for exemption from jury service, appointment of George Nunes as Vice-Consul for Sweden and Norway, appointment of Louis Malabre Arnold as French Consular Agent, appointment of Richard J C Hitchins as Vice-Consul for the United States);
• Land Board (annexation of Cayman Islands, removal of Guano from Pedro and Morant Bays by Mr Astwood);
• Law Officers (removal by Crown of official assignee);
• Kew Gardens (Cinchona plantations);
• House of Assembly (congratulations on the birth of a son to the Prince and Princess of Wales, memorial to the Queen);
• Geological Survey (appointment of a surveyor, appointment of an assistant surveyor);
• Geological Museum (passage of Mr Brown); Lunacy Commissioner (proposed alterations to the Lunatic Asylum);
• Board of Trade (sugar duties);
• Treasury (investments in sinking fund, private security, improvement of Lunatic Asylum, perpetual annuity fund, termination of agreement with mail company, Mr Bell's application for assistance);
• War Office (Enfield Rifles for volunteers, transfer of forts to Imperial Government, administration of Government in absence of Governor, lack of black troops, military persons in penitentiary, appointment for Governorship, guards on civil estates).

Individuals:

• H W Austin (stamp duty);
• R B Beddome (Mr Owen's settlement);
• Thomas Bodkin (property of John O'Connell);
• I D Baillie (extension of leave);
• Henry Berkeley (appointment of Island Secretary);
• Richard Chamberlaine (extension of leave);
• John Davis (extension of leave);
• Sir C Darling (resignation of Vice-Admiral's commission);
• Reverend L Ellis (extension of leave);
• Francis Fallows (claim to property);
• Captain R Hunt (enquiry as to Lieutenant Governor Eyre);
• John Hawkshaw (report on Spanish Town to Porus);
• Charles Harvey (extension of leave);
• Bishop of Jamaica (vacancy in the Archdeaconry);
• Richard Ledger (Jamaica Fund);
• Edmund Leahy (dismissal);
• George Brice Pennell (appointment of engineer);
• George Price (management of Governor Eyre);
• Thomas Rider (inquiry);
• Sir Frederick Rogers (leave of absence);
• Earl of Shrewsbury (growth of Cinchona);
• Alexander Stewart (extension of leave);
• Charles Wellborne (floating dock).

Topics

Government finances

International

Mental illness

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Food and drink

Navy

Americas

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Prisons