Correspondence from 'Offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and...

Correspondence from 'Offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and from Individuals on matters relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (Colonial Court of Admiralty rules);
• Crown Agents (issue of Inscribed Stock, sanitary works at Kingston, appeal of the Attorney General versus the Jamaica Railway Company's case, uniforms for the Kingston Militia and the Artillery, Mr C Rampini's pension, transfer of £300 from the Turks Islands to the Jamaica Funds, sewerage works at Kingston, issues of a loan of £180,000 under the Parochial Roads Law 1890);
• Board of Trade (inspection of the lighthouse at Grand Turk, officers of vessels carrying passengers, relief of distressed British seamen, appointment of Mr Phillipo as midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve, Bankruptcy Law);
• Treasury (proposed Jamaica-Bermuda cable);
• Foreign Office (proceedings of Haitian exiles, alleged ill-treatment of British subjects in Mexico, exemption of the Turks Islands from the arrangement with the United States, repatriation of Miss Julia Chamberlaine, treatment of British subjects at the Panama Canal works, labourers for the Panama canal works, conduct of the Italian Consul Mr G Schiller, abandonment of labourers on Roncador Cay);
• Home Office (dating of convicts' licences);
• War Office (insanitary condition of Port Royal, appointment of Captain Hall as the Governor's Aide-de-Camp, inadequacy of the grant to the local Militia, strength of the garrison, retention of Captain R Egerton's services, grant to the local Militia, appointment of Adjutant of the Kingston Volunteer Militia);
• General Post Office (Turks Islands mail service, parcel post with the Turks Islands, proposed Bermuda-Jamaica cable, subsidy of £250 to mail service);
• West India and Panama Telegraph Company (proposed Bermuda-Jamaica cable, cable rates);
• General Medical Council (foreign medical diplomas);
• Halifax and Bermuda Cable Company (proposed Bermuda-Jamaica cable, cable extension);
• National Guarantee and Suretyship Association (guarantee bond of Philip A Fraser);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (mangrove bark for tanning purposes, plants sent to the Chicago exhibition);
• Medical Council (foreign and colonial medical diplomas);
• Royal College of Physicians (foreign and colonial medical practitioners);
• Local Government Board (disinfection of cargoes infested by cholera).

Individuals:

• W Bourke (medical practitioners);
• T Gordon Black (payment of gratuity from the Constabulary Reward Fund, retirement from Constabulary);
• T Bartlett (appointment as Principal Warder of the St Catherine's District Prison);
• Dr Charles George Brown (health reports of the Commissioner of the Turks Islands Mr H Higgins and of Mr T Gordon Black);
• R S Chatterton (death of the Puisne Judge Mr C R Curran);
• Madame Delahaye (estate of L A Delahaye, intestate estates of foreigners);
• W B Espent (statements respecting him in the Colonial Standard);
• P A Fraser (appointment as Surveyor General and Inspector of Railways);
• H F Gibbons (petition to the Queen in respect of his resignation);
• Leonard P Hodge (application for appointment of Superintendent of the Government Technical School of Colombo);
• Henry Higgins (extension of the Halifax-Bermuda Cable to the Turks Islands, Turks mail service, application for promotion, his position as Commissioner of the Turks Islands, application for extension of leave and his salary during leave);
• Edward W Hudson (his property at Panama);
• Charles F Lumb (appointment as Puisne Judge);
• Dr Charles B Mosee (medical practitioners in Jamaica);
• Harold A Perry (complaint in respect of his transfer);
• Messrs Tacker, Lake and Lyon (charges against Mr W B Espent);
• Andrew Lorrain Wright (estate of Messrs Walter Wright and Robert Marshall).

Topics

Clothing

International

Litigation

Labour

Railways

Army

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Weapons

Debt

Disease

Nationality

Navy

Sewerage

Americas

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Prisons