Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which...

Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in 1880. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (departments):

• Admiralty (water supply, Port Royal);
• Crown Agents (Jamaica Railway, company's title; rail extension to Porus; purchase of Jamaica Railway; extension to Ewarton; Mr Bell's salary; dinner set for government; railway staff; appointment of Messrs Tyrell, Gallwey, & Parkes on railway);
• Council Office (proposed right of appeal from British Honduras to Jamaica);
• Board of Trade (ordinance 2 of 1880; 'shipwrecked colonial seamen Law, 1860'; license to land cables);
• Law Officers (Pulido v Musgrave, the 'Florence Case'; Pulido v Musgrave, governor's position; proceeds of encumbered estate sale);
• Treasury (proceeds of encumbered estate sale);
• Foreign Office (case of Octavia; political affairs at Cuba; trial of seamen regarding master of George S Berry; compensation Octavia case; Octavia claim; expenses of George S Berry trial; compensation Octavia case);
• War Office (prison for military offenders; appointment of Captain O'Brian, deputy director of roads);
• Miscellaneous (West Indian Encumbered Estates Commissioner, sale proceeds; General Post Office, postal union; West India Committee, hurricane relief; Baptist Missionary, hurricane relief; Shipwrecked Fishermen's Society, relief & repatriation of castaways; Hooper's Telegraph Works, cable at Holland Bay; University of London, Jamaica scholarship).

Individuals:

• Baird, R (arrival on leave);
• Cotton, Dr (appointment of Dr Peck as parochial medical officer);
• Canterbury, Archbishop of (appointment of Rev Nuttall, Bishopric of Jamaica);
• Ferguson, Major (income tax deduction from salary);
• Musgrave, Sir (judgement in Pulido v Musgrave case; report of Commission on the Civil Service; juvenile poor relief; railway extension Porus and Ewarton; salary, director of roads);
• Peck, J H (appointment as parochial medical officer);
• Reynolds, J (appointment as medical officer);
• Taylor, W (appointment as medical officer);
• Wright, R S (observations on criminal laws).

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