Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations)...

Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and from individuals (surnames A-D) on subjects concerning Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• War Office (supply of arms, powers of Sanitary Commissioners, command of the militia, rifles and carbines, sanitary condition of Port Royal, Major G F Leverson of the Royal Engineers, adjutant of the militia, the militia and the constabulary, militia equipment, disturbances among Maroons at Annotta Bay, rates of Port Royal and War Office contributions);
• Direct West India Cable Company Limited (telegraphic communications, war between the United States of America and Spain and the censorship of telegrams);
• Civil Service Commission (Civil Service examination);
• Incorporated Law Society (law examinations, intermediate and final law examinations in Jamaica);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (course of instruction for Lieutenant D'Arcy Harley, constabulary sergeants, police training of Lieutenant D'Arcy Harley, constables, expenses of a selection of constables for the Jamaica Constabulary, compensation to constables);
• Royal Jamaica Society of Agriculture and Commerce (Direct West India Cable);
• Editor of The Gleaner (Jamaica-Bermuda Cable);
• Education Department (exchange between Mr T Capper and the Imperial Education Officer);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (boring insects in cigars, carob cultivation, coffee leaf disease, cigars and excise duty law and Orange Gardens);
• Union Assurance Society (Mr R A Walcott);
• University of Cambridge (scholarship for George Staunton Husband);
• Colonial Bank (Colonial Bank and Jamaica Railway Company, appropriation of £21,912);
• Inland Revenue (stamping of duties);
• British Museum Natural History (boring insect in cigars);
• West India Committee (Agricultural Tenants Protection Bill);
• Manchester Chamber of Commerce (customs tariff);
• Middlesex County Council (application of W A Miller for appointment as assistant to the County Surveyor);
• The Halifax and Bermudas Cable Company Limited (war between the United States of America and Spain and the censorship of telegrams);
• Colonial Office (remittance through the Treasury Chest);
• Inhabitants of St Ann's Parish (Agricultural Tenants Protection Bill);
• British Medical Association (medical practitioners and infectious diseases notification);
• Local Government Board (Infectious Diseases Notification Law);
• Education Department (training expenses of J G Peet);
• Baptist Missionary Society (endowed schools, memorial of Anthony Gilbert);
• General Post Office (Jamaica-Bermuda Cable, penny post Jamaica to Canada);
• West India and Panama Telegraph Company (United States Weather Bureau);
• Mrs A J Austin (Licence and Criminal Law Amendment Laws);
• E B Alexander (tobacco cultivation);
• F G Anderson (compensation claim for enslaved persons emancipated in 1838);
• Sir H A Blake (customs facilities for baggage, abandonment of sugar cultivation, addresses to him on departure, coal discovery, report of the Royal Commission and the petition to the House of Commons, Island Chemist, sugar industry, cigars and cigarettes Excise Duty Law 1897, direct steam ship service with the United Kingdom, fruit trade and special steamer service);
• A C Bancroft (discovery of coal);
• J Brown (petition, grievance);
• Mrs Burke (estate of 'lunatic' sister);
• C A Bicknell (admission as solicitor in England and stamp duty);
• Bilney and Company (claims against Major Fawcett);
• Mrs S V Bell (assistance);
• V G Bell (extension of leave);
• Sir D Barbour (financial enquiry);
• L D Crosswell (resident hospital vacancy at Jamaica);
• E J Cameron (family remittances);
• Dr L Crane (site of the public hospital, application of Dr G C Lockett);
• Timothy T Cameron (pecuniary assistance);
• Sir F Clarke (extension of leave, amalgamation of the offices of the Deputy Keeper of the Records, Registrar General and Registrar of Titles);
• P E Chapman (resumption of duties, return to the colony);
• A Drysdale (memorial from the Parish of St Ann against the agricultural tenants protection bill);
• Reverend G W Downer (extension of leave);
• Dale, Newman & Hood (identity of F M Turner);
• T B Dixon (pension).

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