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

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

Offices:

• Admiralty (visits by British ships to Turks Island, question of stationing an armed vessel at Port Royal, receiving ship at Port Royal, reported intention of US to purchase island near Colon for a coaling station);
• Crown Agents (money order remittances, railway extension: award on claims connected with contract, proposed loan);
• Board of Trade (use of incorrect form for depositions concerning shipping casualties, law regarding the disposal of wrecks);
• Treasury (Sir H Norman's cost in Gibbon's action);
• Foreign Office (Spanish commercial convention, duty on Spanish wines entering Jamaica, massacre of Jamaicans at Culebra, Spanish Consul's claim to exemption from taxes, condition of 'Jamaican Blacks' at Tampico, detention of arms from the Fram, shooting of Jamaicans at Gorgona by Colombian Police, cancellation of Mr Bravo's appointment as the US consular agent, extradition treaty with Colombia, filibustering projects against Cuba, supposed intention of the US to purchase an island near Colon, condition of British West Indian labourers at Panama and Port Limon);
• Home Office (dismissal of W O'Reilly Fogarty's case, appointment of a warden for the Jamaican general penitentiary, release of prisoners on the occasion of the Jubilee);
• War Office (Jamaica as headquarters of West Indian command, free issue of guns and stores for Kingston Artillery Volunteer Militia, proposed pier at Port Henderson, cessation of contribution to the lock hospital, repeal of Contagious Disease Laws, colonial contribution to the cost of sanitary works at Port Royal, removal of explosives from the magazine at Fort Augusta, appointment of Lieutenant Egerton as adjutant of the volunteer militia, issue of ammunition for the volunteer militia, magazines);
• Local Government Board (small pox);
• Kew Gardens (disease among Cocoes, Cinchona Febrifuge, export of fruit, report on disease of the Alocasia, prohibition of import of plants from various countries);
• General Post Office (counterfeit postage stamp legislation, Turks Island contribution to the mail service, remittance of money order balances, parcel post convention with the US);
• Royal Humane Society (testimonials for William Nash and Florence Green);
• Provident Clerks & General Guarantee Association (liability for D R de Cassiere's defalcations).

Individuals:

• Dr Charles Gage Brown (retirement of G G Little, A Kerr's proposed transfer to the Gold Coast);
• C Ribton Curran (claims to promotion);
• J Leslie Cox (leave of absence of medical officers);
• J Cartwright (abolition of his office, application for re-employment);
• Davidson Burch & Co (Mr Gibbon's action against Governor Sir H Norman);
• Sir A G Ellis (application for transfer);
• William Ernst (official position as affected by Resident Magistrates Law);
• H F Gibbons (application for judicial appointment, his case);
• E Gourley (treatment of lepers in Jamaica);
• G Little (resignation, pension claim);
• Longmans & Co (copyright: import of pirated American reprints);
• Charles Levy (seizure of property by government);
• A R McFarlane (resignation);
• Sir H Norman, Governor (leave salary, H F Gibbon's action against him);
• Major D O'Brien (application for refund of widows and orphans fund contribution);
• Dr William Arthur O'Connor (application for medical appointment);
• Dr J W Plaxton (application as medical superintendent of the lunatic asylum, John Buchan Spence's application);
• Neale Porter (accepts appointment as colonial secretary);
• A J Walmisley (Kingston harbour scheme);
• E Noel Walker (increase of elected members of Legislative Council).

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