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

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

Offices:

• House of Commons (Titchfied Trust Land Tenants Protection Law);
• Admiralty (Port Royal, naval cemetery at Port Royal, municipality for Port Royal, unsanitary condition of Port Royal, Port Royal Board Bill);
• Emigration Agent at Calcutta (agreement and condition of service of Indian immigrants);
• Crown Agents (salary of Electrical Inspector, Jamaica railway, disposal of obsolete official stamps, postage stamps and cards, loans, new postage stamp, steamer service with the United Kingdom and contract, Mr Blomfield Smith's qualifications for the post of General Manager of the Jamaica Railways, claims on the General Revenue, Mosquito [Moskito] Chief Clarence, Local Sinking Fund account, telegraph subsidy, Jamaica Produce and Transport Association, pension claims on the General Revenue, silver coin);
• Board of Trade (lighthouse on Sand Cay in the Turks Islands, Quarantine Ordinance - Turks Islands, Colonel Morris Fawcett's gratuity, sailors' home at Kingston);
• India Office (Indian immigration);
• Law Officers (Jamaica railway, Legislative Council and Private Members Bills, salaries of the Attorney General and the Solicitor General);
• Treasury (remittances through the Treasury Chests, Port Royal Board Law 1899, Imperial loans to Colonial Government, commutation of Imperial pension to W R Walker, Colonial Loans Act, draft loan bills);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Cinchona plantation, rubber concession, appointment of an Agricultural Lecturer);
• Colonial Missionary Society (relief of distress);
• British Medical Association (Infectious Diseases Notification Law);
• General Post Office (Imperial penny post from Jamaica to Canada);
• United Methodist Free Churches (schools);
• Civil Service Commission (Civil Service exams and method of marking);
• Emigrants Information Office (grazing land, Government lands for sale);
• Direct West India Cable Company (Direct West India Cable Company's Law 1898);
• Inland Revenue (stamp duties collection);
• Cambridge Local Exams Syndicate (scholarship);
• Jamaica Association (Tariff Bill, appointment of additional nominated members of the Legislative Council);
• Lloyds (quarantine);
• British Medical Association (case of Dr G V Lockett);
• Colonial Office (finances of Jamaica and print of further correspondence);
• Official Receivers in Bankruptcy (bankruptcy of Colonel Morris Fawcett);
• West Indian Professional Club, USA (practice of medicine in West Indies);
• Archbishop of West Indies (agricultural and industrial education, Rectors and Island Curates' funds);
• Imperial Institute (Imperial Institute);
• Lady Mico Charity (appointment of a trustee);
• Education Department (report on education in Jamaica).

Topics

Shipping

Charities

Government finances

International

Railways

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Migration

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Aid and development

Debt

Navy

Americas

Communications

Education

Farming

Armed Forces (General Administration)