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

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

• Admiralty (Contagious Diseases Act, Lock Hospital, prisoner diet at Kingston Penitentiary, lift for graving dock);
• Crown Agents (medicines for hospital and lunatic asylum, investment of deposit and sinking fund, Reverend Cahusac's pension, requisitions for hospital, medical reports for Local Government, payment for bedsteads and kitchen range, constabulary rules, payment for Mr Rushworth's salary, Mr Gillard's appointment as Inspector of Invoices, sale of annuities, Mr Moran's passage and outfit money, payment of Mr Rees' salary, constabulary regiments, payment for stationery and books, medicines for public hospital);
• Council Office (supply of lymph vaccine, medical reports of Privy Council);
• Foreign Office (appointment of Messrs Leyden and Bravo, Mr Solomon's appointment as Consular Agent, Mr Boyle's appointment as Colombian Consul, Mr Benuzzi's imprisonment and claim, Mr Dieckman's appointment as Prussian Consul, Mr Dougall's appointment as Consular Agent, certificate required for Pierre Mereto's death, expulsion of General Salomon from Jamaica, Mr Woolley's appointment as Haytian [Haitian] Consul);
• India Office (appointment of Mr Williams for India Legal Department);
• Law Officers (General Solomon's arrest and claim for compensation, Mr Jordan's private papers, effect of local Act altering customs duties, expulsion of General Salomons from Jamaica, duty on certain land);
• General Post Office (detention of Mail Steamer Eider, Mr Brymer's failure to remit certain moneys, restrictions on issue of money orders for large amounts, mode of forwarding mails from Jamaica, Act for management of Jamaican Post Office, Mr Evelyn's complaint);
• Kew Gardens (transmission of Assam tea seeds, transmission of cocoa nut fruits [sic]);
• Custom House (entitlement of Inspector of Invoices to a pension, office of Inspector of Invoices and Mr Gillard's fitness for this post, Mr Gillard's leave of absence, Mr Gillard's resignation);
• Presbyterian Church Mission (memorial against Sunday postal service);
• Dublin Castle (regulation of Irish Constabulary);
• Graving Dock (remission of duty on materials for dock);
• Inland Revenue (enquiries as to A Boyd Purcell);
• Parliament (payment of Mr Eyre's expenses, copy of Mr Eyre's legal expenses, ecclesiastical vacancies, Clergy Act);
• Board of Trade (loss of the Coronet, wreck of the Halicore on Morant reefs, law relating to wreck enquiries, additional duty on imports, Captain Giot's rescue of three men from drowning);
• Treasury (investment of deposits in England, account of sinking fund and guaranteed loan, instruments purchased for the Geological Society, salaries of Stipendiary Curates, Mr Seymour's salary while on leave, commutation of Mr Type's pension, claim of General Joseph Lamotte, Mr Facey's application for a pension, introduction of nickel coinage, stipends of clergymen, additional duty on imports, arrangements respecting Mr Gillard's pension, Appropriation Act for year ending September 1868, financial relief for Jamaica);
• War Office (report on volunteer law, establishment of lock hospitals and contributions, house tax levied on staff sergeants, application of contagious diseases law, provision for lock hospital accommodation, plan for lock hospital at the Curragh, tax on goods for use in canteen, accommodation for staff sergeants).

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