Letters received from various government offices (departments), and other organisations...

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

Offices:

• Admiralty (supplies to political refugees, suspension of C A Bland, application of R W B Hunt to retain appointment as Inspector of Volunteers, passage of J Gibbs and C Jackson, passage of employees of the Colonial Office, trial and execution of G W Gordon, application of Captain Hunt to be Private Secretary and Aide de Camp to the Lieutenant Governor of Honduras, double payment of passage of Mr Ker and family, law to prevent contagious diseases, anticipation of further rebellion in Jamaica and measures taken, Jamaican estates of Greenwich Hospital);
• Crown Agents (appointment of First Class Superintendents of Roads and Works, appointment of C J Hooper as Superintendent of Roads and Works, appointment of C Griffin as Superintendent of Roads and Works, application of C Griffin for an advance, payment of Messrs Bell and Miller for plans for the construction of the slip dock at Kingston, salary of H Austin, pensions of Reverend Stearn and Reverent Hytton);
• Council Office (disallowance of Act 4536, selection of school teachers, grants-in-aid of elementary schools);
• Foreign Office (certificate of death of I P Merets, losses claimed by J Fils, claims for services of L Bourat, appointment of J Bautista as Dominican Consul in Jamaica, appointment of W Nunez as Venezuelan Consul in Jamaica, appointment of S Pietersy and L Herrera as Spanish Vice-Consuls at Jamaica and Malta, appointment of S Pietersy as Spanish Vice Consul at Jamaica, appointment of R Nunez to be consul of Venezuela in Jamaica, imprisonment and expulsion of Mr Salomous, withdrawal of the application of Mr Dolphy to be Consular Agent at Old Harbour Jamaica, expenses in the case of Mary Rainford, claim by General Lamothe for losses, appointment of R Nunez to be Venezuelan consul at Jamaica);
• Home Office (constitution of new police force);
• India Office (introduction of mahogany trees into India);
• Land Board (forfeiture of land, land tenure in Jamaica);
• Law Officers (Supreme Court of Jamaica, appeal of Mr Levien, the Act of Indemnity in proceedings against Mr Eyre);
• Geological Survey (visit of Mr Sawkins to England, transmission of the survey to Jamaica);
• General Post Office (detention of the mail packet Wye, the avoidance of Jamaica by mail packets owing to the prevalence of yellow fever);
• British and Foreign Freedmen's Aid Society (funds for educational purposes);
• Jamaica Agency (bill for raising £20000);
• Jamaica Royal Commission (documents concerning the disturbances);
• Office of Commissioners in Lunacy (selection of an Assistant Medical Officer for the Lunatic Asylum in Jamaica, recommendation of Mr Saunders for Assistant Medical Officer of the Asylum);
• Eyre Defence and Aid Fund Committee (memorials on the case of Mr Eyre);
• Board of Trade (Import Duty Act);
• Treasury (payments made for the guaranteed loan, petition of Seviens, sinking fund of the guaranteed loan, reductions on the ecclesiastical establishment, salary of an Assistant Medial Officer at the Jamaica Asylum, salary of Director of Roads and Surveyor General of Public Works, salaries of judgeships, advance of salary to H Davidson, resignation of Reverend H L Ellis, passage of Mr Eyre, a law to raise £13075 for immigration purposes, certificates of guaranteed loan of Jamaica, application for compensation of Mr Salomon, claims for compensation of Mr Joseph Fils, claims of officers for compensation on the abolition of their offices, grant of pensions, passages of R A Strahan and H Storks, compensation to Mr Hemmington, salary to Mr Sawkins, non-receipt of returns of copyright works, estimates of revenue and expenditure, appeal of Sidney Levien, applications for the post of Auditor General of Jamaica, Import Duty Act, two items concerning the salary of Reverend Brooks, return of copyright duties in Jamaica);
• War Office (return of documents, charges against Colonel Nelson, provisional employment of Lieutenant Colonel Mann as Director of Roads, Surveyor General and Superintendent of Public Works, return of books, return of documents concerning legal expenses in Jamaica, charges against Mr Cullen and Mr Morris, martial law, application for employment in the Commissariat Department of W C Mendez, transfer of barracks at Spanish Town to the colonial authorities, refund of duties on articles imported for the used of the Army and Navy, certificate for Colonel Nelson, transfer of Stoney Hill Barracks to the Colonial Government, Contagious Diseases Act of 1866, payment for rifles for the new constabulary force, clothing allowance law contagious diseases law, measures taken to carry this law into effect).

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