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

CO 137/616

1900

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

Offices:

• Treasury (Jamaica railway interest and advance, direct steamer service with the United Kingdom, annuity rates and repayment of loans, Imperial loan to the Colonial Government, loan under the Colonial Act 1899, rate of income tax on interest on Jamaica Railway Company and on arrears, railway bondholder income tax claim, currency and demonetisation of the doubloon, Deficit Loan Imperial Law 1900, mail service subsidy, Imperial pension of Charles Goldie, Port Royal Law 13 of 1900, mail service contribution);
• War Office (presentation of the New Colours to the Second Battalion of the West India Regiment, cases of Captain Gerald Colley and Captain G E L Gibbs, command of troops by Major General Hallowes, report of the General Officer Commanding Militia, military lodging allowances, application for a free grant of Crown Land from a discharged soldier, Port Royal Parish and Parochial Board);
• Colonial Bank (note circulation, note issue by the Bank of Nova Scotia);
• Lady Mico Charity (appointment of a trustee);
• Inland Revenue (income tax system);
• Trustees of First Mortgage Bondholders (railway and transfer to the Colonial Government);
• Colonial Nursing Association (case of Miss Gifford);
• Colonial Office (proposed presentation of despatches to Parliament, railway);
• Bootle Cold Storage and Ice Company (fruit trade);
• Royal Jamaica Society of Agriculture and Commerce (Queen's 81st birthday and relief of Mafeking);
• Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (appointment of an Agricultural Chemist);
• London Chamber of Commerce (surtax on colonial spirits);
• West India Committee (excise restrictions on rum);
• Royal Agricultural Society of England (post of Agricultural and Analytical Chemist);
• Customs House (Imperial pension to Mr Goldie);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (suggested economics of the Public Gardens and Plantations Department, Orange Garden at Resource);
• Lloyds (signalling);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (quarantine);
• General Post Office (direct steamer service);
• Institute of Civil Engineers (case of Mr J D'Aeth).

Individuals:

• Walter Gray Arthur (claim of British subjects resident in San Domingo, case of the schooner Aionios and compensation for Captain Walkin);
• Abrahams Brothers (tax on commercial travellers);
• Dr A P Aitken (case of Mr Burns);
• James Ashburner (duty on whisky);
• Sir D Barbour (finances report);
• Sir H A Blake (Mr Justice Lumb's services as Chairman of the Education Commission);
• J Milne Bowrey (scholarship advance);
• P J O'Leary Bradbury (his appointment as Inspector of Schools);
• Sir Reginald J Cust (West Indies encumbered estates account);
• W B Clapham (rubber concession);
• William Jameson Calder (application for promotion);
• Herbert H Cousins (appointment as Agricultural Chemist);
• E J Cameron (application for appointment as Administrator of St Vincent);
• Richard Dowden (appointment as Junior Resident Medical Officer of the Lunatic Asylum);
• Alexander S Dakers (payments to the pension fund);
• F Evans (arrival on leave);
• Dr E R C Earle (appointment as Medical Officer under the Foreign Office);
• Elder, Dempster and Company (suggested change to the port of call, piers at Kingston or Montego Bay, hotels, hotel accommodation in connection with the direct steamer service, direct steamer service with the United Kingdom and dates of sailings);
• Reverend L T Evans (case of Augustus Lacey);
• W W Fisher (application for promotion);
• W Fawcett (public gardens and plantations, rubber concession);
• Alban Gibbs and Son (railway and Railway Vesting Law);
• Reverend W Graham (murder of F Constantine);
• C P Hogarth (railway);
• Sir Augustus W L Hemming (Mr Justice Lumb's protest against Law 18 of 1900, extension of leave, Legislative Council and attitude of elected members);
• Dr John Hobbs (resignation);
• E Brodie Hoare (note issue);
• Charles K Jackson (debt of Dr H D B Castle);
• Miss Amy C Johnson (pension claims);
• John Richard Johnson (re-appointment in the Colonial Service, promotion);
• Sir Hubert Jermingham (railway);
• George Vernon Lockett (claims to promotion);
• Jack Lion (commercial travellers tax, electric lighting and tramways concession);
• Charles F Lumb (services as Chairman of the Education Commission 1897-8, claims to promotion);
• Professor Livering (post of Agricultural and Analytical Chemist);
• W F Lawrence (rum surtax);
• Mrs R MacPherson (estate of Reverend J D MacPherson);
• Dr P Manson (medical report of Mr R A Berry);
• A H Miles (Supervisor of the Revenue Offices);
• Dr C B Mosse (hospital treatment of Emanuel Henry, Colonial Medical Officers as Surgeons Superintendent of Immigrant Ships, Medical Report for April-December 1899);
• L Mackinnon (re-employment);
• A M Nathan (interview);
• B C Orgill (retirement);
• Sydney Olivier (rolling stock and loan of railway, Widows and Orphans Fund, managing staff of the railway);
• H F Pollock (case of the Jamaica Railway versus the Colonial Bank);
• Lieutenant Colonel A H Pinnock (Militia);
• Albert William Henry Pratt (retirement allowance, gratuity);
• D M M Ross (pension);
• Dr Robert Saundby (case of Dr Grabham);
• W Arthur Sutton (Customs appointment, service in the Jamaica's Civil Service);
• F S Sanguinetti (Commissionership of the Turks Islands, post of Medical Officer for the Cayman Islands, admission of the Caymans to the postal union, turtle fisheries of the Cayman Islands);
• S Selinger (case of his son Hugo Selinger);
• John Sebastian (case of Don Matthew Sebastian);
• William A Tilder (post of Agricultural Chemist);
• Samuel Whyte (petition for increased pension);
• Mrs A C Whittaker (compensation on account of her claim to Whittakers Mountain);
• Archbishop of the West Indies (Jamaica railway);
• Alexander Williams (petition for pension);
• W W Young and Son (estate of the late George William Young);
• T E Young (Widows and Orphans Fund).

Public Record(s)

Open Document, Open Description

Topics

Shipping

Charities

Conveyancing

Government finances

International

Labour

Mental illness

Public disorder

Railways

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Nursing

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Children

Crown lands and estates

Debt

Food and drink

Nationality