Despatches from Governor Sir Henry Wylie Norman (1884 Dec) and letters from offices...

Despatches from Governor Sir Henry Wylie Norman (1884 Dec) and letters from offices and individuals on matters related to Jamaica (1884). Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from offices and individuals is not.

Offices:

• House of Commons (affairs in Jamaica: constitution, legislature, reform);
• Admiralty (treatment of a British cutter by a Spanish gunboat);
• Crown Agents (railway extensions, money order remittances, direct remittance of bills of exchange);
• Board of Trade (boilers of SS Belize, refusal of passenger certificate, fees of officers surveying emigrant ships, Blue Book totals of imports and exports, statistics respecting export of fruit);
• Treasury (accumulated rents of Morant and Pedro Cays);
• Foreign Office (extradition treaty between Jamaica and Colombia, disturbances at Jacmel, Jamaica as the headquarters of revolutionaries in Haiti, estates of Jamaicans dying at the Panama Canal, arrest of T Eagle, sentence of American S Gordon, complaint against the master and crew of American schooner, General Borachea's suspected expedition against Cuba, Mr Reid's complaint of detention on a Colombian schooner, Cuban filibusters established at Kingston, action of Spanish gunboat with regard to the Tend, claim of the USA to Pedro Cays, import of Jamaican children at Haiti for domestic service, release of the Natalie, case of the Scud, alleged attempt on a Spanish gunboat by filibusters, Mr Gregoires claim against the Haitian government, seizure of Natalie);
• Home Office (expense of Britt and Walsh case, remission of sentences, pardon in cases of commuted death sentences);
• War Office ('disposal of insane soldier', Private Porter);
• Kew Gardens (government Cinchona plantations, Mr Morris' remuneration for mission to St. Helena, report on a febrifuge [medicine] prepared from Cinchona bark, forest preservation, export of fruit);
• Royal Commission on West Indian Finances (free trade between Turks Islands and Jamaica);
• Colonial Office (clerical error in the digest of evidence accompanying the Royal Commissioners' report);
• Inland Revenue (stamp recording presses);
• Civil Service Commission (competitive exams for appointments in the colonial civil service);

Individuals:

• William G M Betton (proposed new constitution, protest against the employment of unpaid magistrates);
• Archdeacon Brooks (leave extension request);
• Thomas Capper (willingness to serve on the Legislative Council);
• Sir W Crossman (Mr Wellesley Bourke's letter to him);
• Henry Frederick Gibbons (charges of misconduct against him, his suspension, his return to the colony, alimentary allowance);
• Charles W Kennedy (pension claim, application for a gratuity);
• Robert Kerr (employment while in receipt of a pension);
• Sir Anthony Musgrave (observations on the report of the West Indian Royal Commission of 1882);
• Dr W K Stephens (leave extension request).

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