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

CO 137/460

1871

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

• House of Commons (question of S Cave concerning the appointment of Mr Downing Bruce as District Judge in Jamaica, question of C Dilke concerning the rumour of disturbances in Jamaica, address by Mr Eyre to the effect that a copy of a letter addressed to him by the Colonial Office should be added to the return about him, a resolution that the address relative to the return of Mr Eyre be presented to Her Majesty, address by Colonel North for all correspondence between Mr Eyre and the Colonial Office since Eyre's removal from Jamaica, a resolution that this correspondence be laid before the house);
• Admiralty (two items concerning the question of whether the Registrar of the Vice Admiralty Court of Kingston should reside in that town, appointment of an Advocate General of the Vice Admiralty Court in Jamaica);
• Crown Agents (requisition of the Jamaica Government for Portland cement for the floor of the Kingston Market and a suitable workman to lay it, recommendation of E C Filley to be District Engineer for the Jamaica Government, sinking funds of Jamaica loans, passages to Jamaica of E C Filley and wife, salary of E E Rushworth Colonial Secretary of Jamaica, appointment of an Engineer to undertake the temporary change of the Kingston and Liquanca Water Works, salary of R B Llewellyn, Mr Tompsett did not embark by the steamer Nile from Jamaica to Southampton, salary of H B Shaw, salary of Mr Downing Bruce, request for an increase in payment from the Jamaica Government to the Crown Agents, pensions to Messrs Thomson and Heslop, salary and half-salary to Mr and Mrs Freshney, pension to S Renmalls former Clerk of the Legislative Council of Jamaica, pension to J Morce former First Class Clerk and Cashier in the Customs Establishment of Jamaica, the difficult appointment of an Engineer to be responsible for increasing the water supply to Kingston, costs incurred in a steam launch required by the Jamaica Government, salary to Mr Brownrigg, payment due to the mint for nickel coinage introduced to Jamaica);
• Council Office (confirmation of Act 16 of 1871 to amend the law relating to aliens);
• India Office (acknowledgement of the receipt of the act to amend the penal code with a statement of 'Objects and Reasons', acknowledgement of receipt of letter requesting that documents be furnished for the man preparing a penal code for Jamaica, request for seeds of Mahogany, Sopwood, Greenheart and Labica, the governments of Jamaica and elsewhere have been instructed to transmit the seeds, property left by Sew Lall, a request that 500 rupees be paid to Koeree and Dookhit wife and brother of Sew Lall who died in Jamaica);
• Law Officers (draft charter concerned with section 5 of Act 30 of 1870 of Jamaica to regulate the disendowment of the Church of England in Jamaica);
• Treasury (proposed introduction of the British Gold Standard into the financial system of Jamaica, contribution of the Treasury towards the establishment of packet communication between British Honduras, Jamaica and New York, delay in payment to Reverend D Rome late Stipendiary Curate in Jamaica, payment of costs incurred by Mr Eyre in his defence against criminal charges, superannuation allowance to R Hill Stipendiary Magistrate of Jamaica, loan raised by Jamaica under Act 17 Vic Cap 35, pension to R Hill has been computed at £266 13s 4d per annum);
• Foreign Office (operation of the penal laws of Bavaria, penal laws in force in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, appointment of G Bush to be United States Consular Agent at Port Antonio, death of the Governor General of the Danish West Indies, the Italian Government wish to establish a consulate in Jamaica, penal code of Russia, two items concerning the appointment of P J Laraque to be Haitian Consul at Kingston, two items concerning the appointment of F A Laraque to be Haitian Vice-Consul at Kingston, claim of W Eden and Company to compensation for the seizure and detention of the schooner Star by Spanish authorities off Cuba, penal laws of Holland and its colonies, two amendments to the Russian penal code, appointment of R Innes to be United States Vice Consul at Kingston, appointment of S Gadellia Corinaldi to be United States Consular Agent at Montego Bay, appointment of D Marshalleck to be Vice Consul for Sweden and Norway at Morant Bay, appointment of A C Laboutere to be Italian Consul at Kingston, appointment of J Dieckmann to be Austrian Consul at Kingston, appointment of J Dieckmann to be German Consul at Kingston, the recognition of United States Consular Agents in Canada as Consular Agents for the Swiss Confederation, Jamaican fishermen fishing in Cuban waters);
• Home Office (order of admission for H B Shaw Inspector of Prisons in Jamaica to view British prisons, property left in Jamaica by J Heffrou);
• War Office (transfer of Kingston Barracks to the Civil Authorities, reconsideration of the terms of the transfer of the Kingston Barracks to the government of Jamaica, Act to vest in Her Majesty forts and defences in and near Port Royal and to provide for the maintenance of these, instructions for the transfer of the Kingston Barracks to the Jamaica Government will follow, suspension of payment of annual contribution of the Jamaica Government to the British Government for the maintenance of defences at Fort Charles, expenses incurred in detachments being stationed at Falmouth and Spanish Town instead of Kingston, transfer to the colonial government of Headquarter House at Kingston, enquires as to emoluments attached to the position of Second Class Inspector of Constabulary and Deputy Inspector in Jamaica);
• Land Board (circumstances connected to the passing of Act No 7 of 1867, acceptance of estimates and Appropriation Act for 1871, law to amend section 13 of Act No 37 of 1867 the 'District Courts Land Law' should be left to its operation, payment to relatives of the deceased Sew Lall, delay in the payment to relatives of the deceased Sew Lall);
• Gilchrist Educational Trust (scholarships provided by the trust for the West Indies);
• Colonial Bank (proposal to assimilate the Currency Law of Jamaica to that of the United Kingdom);
• University of London (delay in awarding the scholarships from the Gilchrist Trust, forwards matriculation examination papers).

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