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:

• House of Commons (notice of motions);
• Admiralty (diet at Kingston penitentiary, claims of Greenwich Hospital to land in Jamaica, the case of the British Schooner La Have, the judgement in the case of the La Have);
• Crown Agents (appointment of T P Healy and M Griffiths as Masters of the elementary schools at Jamaica, payment of charges incurred in shipping of stationery to the Jamaican Government, transfer of the agency of the government of Jamaica, charges for police clothing sent to Jamaica, requisition from the Postmaster of Jamaica, tenders for the construction of an iron bridge at Nightingale Grove Jamaica, pension of J A Lord, salary of H T Irving, appointment of two master workmen for the Jamaica Government Reformatory, salary of R Blair, pension of T E Herschal, pension of J Stainsby, requisition for stores by the Director of Roads, half-salary of D H Campbell and pension to J H Moore, stipend and pension of W Stone, salary of T Mitchell Inspector in the Jamaica Constabulary, charges for stationery sent to the Jamaica Government, requisition of drugs and chemicals for the Public Hospital at Kingston, the appointment of two master workmen for the Jamaica Government Reformatory, nickel coinage to be shipped to Jamaica);
• Council Office (appointment of Mr Pennell to the Legislative Council, appointment of an analytical and consulting chemist to the Jamaica Government, education in Jamaica, draft proclamation for the issue of nickel pennies and half-pennies);
• Board of Trade (enquiries into wreck cases, the law to continue law 2 of 1868 for laying an additional duty on imports, law to repeal Act 27 Vic: session 1 chapter 18 concerning the suspension of the certificate of a Master or Mate of a British merchant vessel, claim of Messrs Anderson Thomson and Company for repayment of expenses incurred in respect of the shipwreck of the Chebucto, letter from Messrs Anderson-Thomson relative to the services of H Sheriff, the Public Hospital Law 1869, service rendered by H Sheriff of Annotta Bay to the crew of the Chebucto);
• Law Officers (seizure of arms and ammunition on the American Schooner Grapeshot, the case of the British Schooner La Have);
• Treasury (claims for compensation by General Laurette and J Fils, sinking fund of the guaranteed loan, supply of nickel coins to Jamaica, appointment of C Haigh as Inspector of Distilleries in Jamaica, pensions to Messrs Haigh and Gillard, costs incurred in the defence of Mr Eyre former Governor of Jamaica, pensions to Messrs Freeman and Berry of the Jamaica Customs, Ecclesiastical appointments made by the Bishop of Jamaica, repayment of the Jamaica guaranteed loan, report on payments made into the Treasury chest by the Jamaica Government for money orders, post office and immigration funds, stipends to Messrs Gayleard and Sullivan, disposal of the property of Greenwich Hospital, payment to the Reverend A R Webbe, remittance to the Crown Agents, law to authorise the issue of nickel coinage, limits to tender of nickel coinage, salary of Reverend A R Webbe, approval of the draft proclamation giving currency in Jamaica to new nickel coinage);
• Foreign Office (certificate of death of Pierre Mereto, ships arriving at Jamaica from Hayti [Haiti], appointment of a United States Vice Consul at Turks Island and Commercial Agent at St Ann's Bay Jamaica, death of S P Meret, appointments of L Lindo, J Dougall and P Hitchens as vice consuls for Sweden and Norway at Black River, Savannah La Mar and Kingston respectively, compensation awarded to J Fils, seizure of two Cayman Island schooners by Spanish vessels near Cape Antonio, regulations issued by the Haytian Consul at Kingston regarding vessels trading between Kingston and Hayti [Haiti], two items concerning the arrival at Port Royal of the American Steamer Peril, compensation to General Lamothe, receipt of compensation awarded to J Fils, thanks from the Haytian Government for the actions of the Jamaican Government with regard to the La Have, no further steps will be taken in the case of the La Have, estate of G Calichias, appointment of J R Wheeler to be United States Consul at Kingston, suspension of Mr Gregg from his function as United States Consul at Kingston, appointment of N Crosswell to be Haytian Consul at Kingston, claim of General Salomon for losses sustained in consequence of his expulsion from Jamaica in 1865);
• War Office (exemption from import duties on articles purchased for the use of regimental messes, transfer to the colonial government of Stoney Hill Barracks, firing of morning and evening guns at Jamaica and Sierra Leone, claim of C Lascelles for costs of provisions supplied by during the disturbances at Jamaica);
• Land Board (trespass law of Jamaica, law to amend the laws relating to Surveyors of Land, emigration of Europeans to Jamaica);
• Office of Commissioners in Lunacy (accommodation at the Lunatic Asylum);
• General Post Office (bi-monthly payments of money orders of the Postmaster of Jamaica, rates of postage);
• Inland Revenue (leave and passage to England of Mr Haigh);
• Paymaster General's Office (compensation for J Fils);
• West Indian Incumbered Estates Commission (payment for sale of incumbered estates in the West Indies, payment to B Edwards);
• Custom House (appointment of C Goldie to the office of Inspector of Invoices at Jamaica);
• Synod of the United Presbyterian Church (ecclesiastical establishment);
• Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew (sending of plants to Jamaica);
• Congregational Union of England and Wales (ecclesiastical affairs in Jamaica);
• Colonial and Continental Church Authority (inspection of schools 1868).

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