Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations)...

CO 137/467

1872

Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) on subjects concerning Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (Mr McArthur MP and compensation to Mrs G W Gordon, House of Commons and the detention of the vessel the Lark by the Spanish authorities);
• Admiralty (resignation of Mr Edward B Lynch, Registrar of the Vice Admiralty Court of Jamaica, the conveyance of a company of the 1st West India Regiment from Falmouth to Kingston, application from Major Hunt of the Royal Navy for promotion);
• Crown Agents (appointment of Mr J J Scharschmidt as Assistant to the Engineer of the Kingston Liguanca Water Works, authority to accept a bill for £674 7s 10d, authority to accept a bill for £900 in favour of Mr J A Bennett, purchase money for premises required for a wharf, to pay £1400 to Mr Frederick J Isaac for certain premises in Kingston, payment of Mr Rampini's salary, law on sinking funds, agreement for laying iron pipes for water service, payment of salary to Archdeacon Campbell, payment of Mr Kemble's pension, payment of salary to Mr W A J Young during leave, supply of drugs and chemicals, payment of salary to Judge Ker during leave, supply of iron wire fencing, salaries of Sir J Grant and Reverend G J Braine during leave, mail carriage, authority to accept a bill of £423 18s 7d, supply of white gaskets and pig lead, requisition for a brick making machine, receipt of a Colonial Bank bill for £5,000, requisitions for police batons, authority to accept bill for £381 13s 5d, overdrawal of the account of the colony, appointment of Mr John Death as Draughtsman in the Survey Department, payment of Mr Goldie's salary during leave);
• India Office (Indian Law Code, deportation of Cubans to Jamaica);
• Law Officers (breach of customs laws by vessels entering port without breaking bulk, sale of encumbered estates);
• Treasury (Captain Kent's application for pension as a Stipendiary Magistrate, law to authorise the application of certain money raised by loan, pension of £75 0s 10d per annum to Captain H Kent, compensation to Mr Harvey on the abolition of his office, losses incurred by payment of large amounts from the Treasury Chest, payments to be made to Reverend Brooks and Messrs Gayleard and Wyatt during leave, remittances to England by the War Department through the Treasury Chest, gratuitous use of the Treasury Chest for making payments);
• Foreign Office (recognition of the United States Consular Officers as Consular Agents for Switzerland, the appointment of Mr Johannes Dieckmann as German Consul at Kingston, appointment of John Dieckmann as Austrian Consul at Kingston, correspondence regarding the export of arms from Jamaica to the Bahamas, second volume of the index to the maps at The Hague for Sir J Grant, Mr J Gale appointed as Ecuadorian Consul at Kingston, seizure of the sloop Lark at Manzanilla by the Spanish authorities, suspected expedition against Cuba, deportation of destitute Cubans to Jamaica, application of Don A de Cordova as Peruvian Consul at Kingston, Cuban insurrection and the complaint by the Spanish Minister of the non detention of the American vessel with arms for the insurgents, Senor James Gall as Ecuadorian Consul at Kingston, seizure of the Lark, Mr Michael Solomon as United States Consular Agent at St Anne's Bay, circumstances regarding the removal of exiled Cubans to Jamaica, the case of the Edgar Stewart, appointment of Mr Carty as Acting Consul for Italy, appointment of Mr Stephen C Perpado as Vice Consul for Sweden and Norway, warlike preparations against Guatemala, Mr Marshalleck as Vice Consul for Sweden and Norway at Morant Bay, petition and removal of prohibition of inhabitants of Grand Cayman to fish in Cuban waters, alleged assistance given to Cuban insurgents from Jamaica, case of the schooner Star);
• Home Office (the Naturalisation Act);
• War Office (Headquarter House at Kingston, acceptance of the Colonial Government for the leasing of Headquarters House, application from Major Doorly for an appointment);
• Land Board (commission appointed to enquire into the office of the Island Secretary);
• Local Government Board (vaccination law);
• Incumbered Estates Commission (sale and transfer of incumbered estates in Jamaica).

Public Record(s)

Open Document, Open Description

Topics

International

Army

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Conflict

Maps and plans

Pay and pensions

Treason and rebellion

Nationality

Navy

Americas

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Local Government