Correspondence from 'Offices' (Government departments) on matters relating to Jamaica....

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

Offices:

• Admiralty (compulsory acquisition of land for Imperial purposes, case of the SS Bermuda, dock construction and water supply, subsistence charge for a 'native' patient at the Royal Naval Hospital, cases of yellow fever, unsanitary state of Port Royal);
• Crown Agents (passage for Mary Anna Marshal, teacher for the Infant School at Kingston, appointment of John George Peet as Headmaster of the Board School, schoolmistress for the Kingston School Board, celebrations of the Queen's Reign, detention of the Colonial detachment, issue of 3% stock, bill for £5,000, salary increment for E J Cameron of the Turks Islands, requisition for the Police, investments on account of the Constabulary pension fund, estate duty);
• Board of Trade (Pilotage and Harbours Ordinance of the Turks Islands, Marine Board Amendment Law, tramways construction, electric lighting);
• India Office (Indian indentured labourers for foreign countries, Cinchona seed, return passages for Indian immigrants, Indian Immigration Law);
• Treasury (Copyright Duties 1896, leave of absence for the Clergy, income tax on dividends, pension of Dr S Leonard Crane);
• Foreign Office (extradition and defalcation of the fugitive offender Alfred Pouyat, labourers for Panama, maintenance of the 'lunatic' Julia Chamberlaine, labourers for the Panama canal, date palms, Consul General for Haiti, detention of the Lottie May and claim of Captain Bodden, cattle for Cuba, treatment of British subjects in Panama, case of the Bermuda, Mr Taylor's claim against the Nicaraguan Government, arrest of William Edwin Watler by the Nicaraguan authorities, right of Foreign Consuls to the private entrée at levees, petition of Edward Murris, case of the Mosquito [Moskito] Chief and his secretary, filibustering expeditions to Cuba, yellow fever and quarantine in the Danish Antilles, treatment of sugar in Java, claim of G P Hall against Nicaragua, enforced naturalisation of British subjects in the Dominican Republic).

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