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:

• House of Commons (yellow fever at Port Royal - facilities for removal of naval men to a sanatorium);
• Admiralty (filibustering vessels City of Mexico and Fram, war vessels to prevent filibustering expeditions);
• Crown Agents (sinking fund of guaranteed loan 1869, indents for drugs and chemicals, expenses of E D M Hooper's forest conservation mission, Mr Hooper's forest report, railway extension: refusal to release contractors' plant, arbitration on contractors' claim, effect of heavy rains on works, arbitrator's award, government claim against contractors);
• Council Office (quarantine in Barbados against Jamaica);
• Board of Trade (services of Turks Island pilots to American schooner James M Riley, light for West Caicos Island, light on 'Look Out Bluff' Salt Cay, law regarding the sale of shipwrecked goods, Pilotage Ordinance No 6 of 1886);
• Treasury (D Morris's appointment as assistant director at Kew, sinking fund of guaranteed loan 1869, defence of governor in proceedings against him by H Gibbons, postal arrangement, mail service expenses, Miss B Teran's claim to share in the Virginius indemnity as sister of one of the 'coloured' crew executed at Santiago de Cuba);
• Foreign Office (filibustering expedition to Cuba from Jamaica, massacre of Jamaicans at Culebra in Colombia, return of arms shipped from New York for supposed revolutionary purposes in Honduras, detention of British subjects at Panama and Colon without trial, arms shipped to Jamaica by SS Andes, appointment of Captain Hartwell as British consul at Naples, case of the Natalie, permission for Don Manuel of Santa Cruz to return to Spain, Mr Hill's mission to Haiti, Cuban revolutionaries in Jamaica, compensation to the master of Mary Ellen by Nicaraguan government, filibustering expedition against Honduras Republic, case of American citizen Charles Teller in Mosquito Reserve, deportation of Colombian criminals to Jamaica, arms exportation prohibition, landing of armed party from Spanish warship, jurisdiction of Nicaragua over Mosquito Keys, complaint of British residents against British Consulate at Panama, filibustering vessel Fram, appointment of a British vice consul at Monte Christo, seizure of the Olivia at San Domingo, repatriation of Jamaicans from Tampico in Mexico, Jamaican labourer killed by Police at Colon, despatch of armed boats from Spanish warship in colonial waters, Spanish consul's application for exemption from rates and taxes, Nicaraguan jurisdiction over Mosquito Keys, deportation of British subjects from Jamaica to Panama);
• Home Office (officers transferred from Imperial Service to Kingston penitentiary, W Eveleigh's requests for re-transfer to Imperial Prison Service);
• War Office (appointment of an instructor to Kingston Volunteer Militia, supply of arms to the militia, distribution of troops, command of troops in the event of war);
• General Medical Council (Medical Laws Amendment Law No 28 of 1885, foreign and colonial medical diplomas);
• Gilchrist Trust (Gilchrist scholarship);
• General Post Office (mail service, adoption of Postal Union system of accounts, Post Office Law Amendment);
• Lloyds (light on West Caicos Islands, law regarding the sale of shipwrecked goods);
• Howard Association (treatment of a European invalid soldier in the general penitentiary);
• Kew Gardens (cultivation of Palmyra Palm, Cinchona Febrifuge, application of W Fawcett as director of public gardens in Jamaica, fibre from Agave Ixtli);
• West India Committee (reciprocity with Canada).

Individuals:

• W J Anderson (appointment as district judge);
• Valentine G Bell, Chief Resident Engineer Jamaica Government Railways (application for directorship of public works);
• Dr E Gerald Blanc (appointment as medical officer);
• Dr Charles Gage Brown (appointment of W Fawcett);
• Davidson Burch & Co (H F Gibbons v Governor Sir H Norman);
• William Eveleigh (application for re-transfer to Home Prison Service);
• H F Gibbons (his dismissal, application for reconsideration, compensation claim);
• Captain E H B Hartwell, British consul for Naples, Italy (pension rights);
• E D M Hooper (report on Jamaica and St Vincent forests);
• Captain K H A Mainwaring, harbour master and assistant police magistrate, Kingston (application for promotion);
• M P C McCormack (application for medical superintendentship of Jamaica lunatic asylum);
• Sir H Norman, governor (extension of franchise and increase of Legislative Council, extension of leave, refusal to release railway extensions contractors' plant, H F Gibbons' action against him, mail service, pension to matron of the public hospital Mrs Rickards, damage to railway extension works by heavy rains, administration of justice - memorandum on report of Royal Commission regarding lower courts);
• C H Robarts (appointment as chief justice of Turks Island Supreme Court);
• Duke of Sutherland (quarantine charges at Port Royal on his yacht).

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