Despatches from A S Jelf, Colonial Secretary administering the government [items...

Despatches from A S Jelf, Colonial Secretary administering the government [items 1-16], and Reginald Edward Stubbs, Governor of Jamaica [folios 17-end], together with letters received from various 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and from individuals, on matters relating to Jamaica. Despatches are described at item level; other correspondence is not, and correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Crown Agents (the use of Sterling Sight Bill in simplifying transactions between one colony and another in the West Indies, a request that the Treasury authorise the Royal Mint to supply nickel coins to the value of £1750 for the Jamaican government, the engagement of A E Horn as an assistant engineer at the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation, enquiry of Trinidad Leaseholds Limited on the subject of oil rights in the Cayman Islands, remarks on the subject of loan requirements for Jamaica);
• Foreign Office (payment of income tax by United States citizens at the United States consulate in Kingston);
• Board of Trade (observations on proposed legislation to provide for reimposition of harbour and light dues, two items concerning law 22 of 1925 'a law to amend the laws relating to petroleum and oil fuel', letter from E H Vestey regarding the conveyance of bananas to the U K, a request that the colony adopt the practice of its neighbours and separate raw from concentrated lime juice in their export returns);
• Treasury (reports that Mint has been authorised to supply Nickel coins to the value of £1750);
• Colonial Office (extracts from the Daily Mail concerning Wilbert Buckan, a Jamaican who refuses to leave the Hollingbourne workhouse);
• Board of Inland Revenue (the board’s observations on the model income tax bill, the claim of British American Tobacco for double taxation relief on its holding of preference shares in a Jamaican tobacco company);
• Imperial Institute (smoked sheet rubber from Jamaica)

Individuals:

• H Bryan (the inequitable operation of law 21 of 1914 concerning the widows’ and orphan’s pensions law in his case);
• Lord Gladstone (gambling by the Chinese in Jamaica);
• A S Jelf (states that colony is anxious for a reduction in the bulk of the accounts and asks which details could be dispensed with);
• L Probyn (the question of how much income tax he must pay);
• R E Stubbs (observations on the draft of the proposed new constitution);
• E H Vestey (banana trade steamship service)

Topics

Shipping

International

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Children

Nationality

Poverty