Letters from offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals...

Letters from offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters related to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (governor's visit to Morant and Pedro Cays, withdrawal of Staff Commander Edmund Nankwell from the Pilotage Board, Army and Navy Drawback Law, F J Manning's proposal for a dry dock at Kingston, danger of infection to Naval Establishment due to yellow fever cases);
• Crown Agents (dispute between railway contractors and the government, issue of £150,000 - 4% debentures, the railway extension, defective railway works, strengthening of the Ewarton extension, system of interlocking signals on railway, claims of contractors for railway extension, sinking fund of guaranteed loan of 1869);
• Law Officers (West Indian Encumbered Estates Court);
• Treasury (guaranteed loans of 1854 and 1869, income tax on dividends from savings bank investments);
• Foreign Office (capture of Cuban filibusters, sovereignty of the Pedro Cays, case of the detained Natalie, case of the Scud, Mr Reid's charges against British Consular officials at Panama, proceedings in connection with General Bonachea, claim of J Fenix against the Spanish authorities at St Iago, Cuban insurrectionists, importation of Jamaican children into Haiti, expedition of General Bonachea from Dry Harbour, death of George Levy caused by Pedro Prestan, extradition treaty between Britain and Colombia, landing of filibusters on Cuba's east coast, destitute labourers at Tampico, extradition of Prestan from Jamaica, request of Colombian government for surrender of Prestan, vessels blocking the port of Carthagena, detention of ships at the request of the Colombian government, treatment of Jamaican labourers on the Panama Canal, capture of Prestan, attack by Colombian soldiers on Jamaicans at Calebra, compensation for the massacre of Jamaicans by Colombians, issue of passports between Jamaica and Haiti, complaint against Haitian Consul C G Moore, Jamaican 'negroes' in Mosquito Territory);
• War Office (services of Deputy Director of Roads Major D O'Brien, volunteer force, colonial defensive armament, arms and accoutrements for volunteers, retention of Major General Clark in command of troops);
• Kew Gardens (establishment of botanical stations in lesser West Indian Islands, report on the Botanical Department, appointment of E Griffin as gardener in Kingston, fruit trade with the United States);
• General Post Office (time for replying to letters under new mail contract, packet service with Jamaica under new contract, time between arrival and departure of mail);
• Lloyds (need of a light on West Caicos Island);
• Colonial Office (recommendation of D Morris to be assistant director of botanic gardens);
• Customs (Customs Consolidation Law 1877 Amendment Law 1885).

Individuals:

• E J Davis (application for puisne or district judgeship) [not included in volume];
• E A Forster (defalcations in Harbour Master's Department);
• H F Gibbons (his resignation, claim to salary, proposal to present a petition of right, claim to re-employment and full salary, reform of the judicial system);
• H Jackson (appointment as commissioner of Turks Island);
• Frederick J Manning (proposed construction of a dry dock at Kingston);
• D Morris (Cinchona Plantations of the Palisadoes);
• N Harris Nicolas (report on Audit Office and Treasury);
• E H Owen (resignation of appointment in Revenue Department);
• Charles Rampini (his colonial pension);
• Simon Thomson Vine (appointment as medical officer).

Topics

Government finances

International

Litigation

Labour

Railways

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Treaties and alliances

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Piracy and privateering

Weapons

Race relations

Children

Disease

Navy

Americas

Communications

Medicine