Letters from various 'offices' (government departments and other organisations) on...

CO 295/118

1837

Letters from various 'offices' (government departments and other organisations) on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Admiralty (disposal of James Screen's case);
• Crown Agents (silver coinage, expenses of bringing home eight convicts, payment of passage for two convicts);
• Commander in Chief Somerset (mutiny of the 'Black Troops', sentence of Private William Grant of the First West India Regiment for mutiny, requests a warship to be at his command to remove troops);
• Board of Trade (Ordinance for assimilating bills of exchange laws, cannot sanction extension of trade as proposed by Mr Fuller);
• Home Office (eight convicts sent to the hulks at Woolwich, mitigation of three convicts' sentences);
• Law Officers (report on the Ordinance for limiting actions and suits, recommends appointment of a commission to assimilate laws, opinion on Ordinance to prevent fraud, trial of eight convicts);
• Ordnance (charge of certain public buildings, erection of a new court house, ammunition supplies to the militia);
• Treasury (silver coinage, allowance to Mr Mackworth, expenditure on the protestant church in Port of Spain, agree to finance despatch, fees to Health Officer, shipment of produce raised in San Fernando, collection of duties, Major Ford's deficiency, salaries of the Auxiliary Commissioners of Slave Compensation, Mr Pantin's charges against the Lieutenant Governor, cannot accede to £3,000 advance to the Ladies School, over issues to Vice Admiralty Court officers, disallowances for slave prosecutions);
• War Office (account of the two settlements in which the disbanded soldiers of the Third West India Regiment were located, recommends free passage to Sierra Leone for Philip Finlay and Jackson Harvey formerly of the Third West India Regiment);
• Anti Slavery Office (observations on two ordinances);
• Royal Geographical Society (property of Philip Finlay, an African in the Third West India Regiment).

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