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

CO 137/615

1900

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

• Admiralty (Legislative Council and the proposed appointment of Commodore, Port Royal Law 1900, visit of warship to the Cayman Islands);
• Crown Agents (conveyance of Indian immigrants, appointment of T A E Gibbons as Sergeant Instructor of the Kingston Artillery Militia, locomotive boilers, Railway requisition for engines and carriages and the issue of inscribed stock, sinking fund investments, sinking fund securities, direct steamer service with the United Kingdom, supply of law books, Constabulary clothing and equipment, new issue of postage stamps for the Cayman Islands, Transvaal War Fund, transfer of stock, Railway Transfer Bill, Indian immigration, account with the Colonial Government, pension of C Goldie, loan of £105,000 under the Colonial Loans Act 1899, additional signalling facilities in the West Indies, the establishment of a light house on Sand Cay, Railway Indemnity to Trustees for bondholders and to Gibbs & Company, Kingston Improvements Redemption Fund, Railway and future management, Princes Wharf, financial position, delay in the supply of goods [bicycle badges enclosed], emigration to other colonies, Debenture Bonds under Law 28 of 1899, mail service contribution, advance under the Deficit Loan Law, requisitions from the Colonial Government, account with the Colony, Railway freight cars and rolling stock, Indian emigration ships, Railway Foreman for the locomotive running shed, Railway Maintenance Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent, resignation of Dr Hobbs, Constabulary Officer's uniform, delay in the supply of steel and ironwork, concrete pipes for road drainage, Railway passenger carriages);
• Emigration Agent, Calcutta (Indian immigration and the extension of the season);
• Council Office (appeal case of Royal Mail Steam Packet Company v George and Brandray);
• Foreign Office (complaints of 'coloured' British subjects against Nicaragua, Nicaraguan Treaty concerning Mosquito Territory, E Parsons's claim against the Spanish Government, claims of British subjects against the Dominican Government, petition of British prisoners in Panama, complaint by D Wigan, Methodist School at Old Bank, Costa Rican insurgents, complaint by Mrs Parchmont, complaint by J Price against Colombian authorities, detention of British prisoners in the Panama Gaol, allowance for Chief Clarence, compensation claim by T Campbell, scientific expedition and the free entry of equipment from Harvard University, schooner Aionios and the claim against the Dominican Government, murder of Charles Spencer, repatriation of British West Indians, anti 'negro' riot in New York, complaints and grievances of Mosquito inhabitants, turtle fisheries at Mosquito Cays, alleged murder of W Phillips in Hondurean prison at Ruatan, claim of T Frith against the Dominican Government, medical appointment in East Africa Protectorate for Dr V E Sorapure, coffee seed for British Central African Protectorate);
• Home Office (acetylene gas for lighting public buildings);
• India Office (cinchona seed for Nilgiri Plantation, extension of immigration season);
• Law Officers (note issue by Nova Scotia Bank, priority of certain loans);
• House of Commons (Legislative Council, issue of notes by the Bank of Nova Scotia, Railway);
• Board of Trade (Marine Board laws, Spanish import duty on extract of logwood, seizure of SS Bermuda, additional signalling facilities in the West Indies, lighthouse on Sand Cay, acetylene gas, signalling from the Grand Turk lighthouse).

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