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

CO 295/127

1839

Letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals [A-F] on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (detention of the mail ship at Barbados);
• Colonial Agent (Professor Brandes' report on specimens of pitch from Lake La Brea, requests authority to pay £15 to Mr Keith for delivering a felon named E Groves, Mr Turnbull's application for copies of the Red Book, pension for son of Major Short, payment for twelve despatch bags, Michel Julien Chevalier de Verteuil's petition for a pension, telescope for use of signal post, fees on the warrant appointing Mr Jackson to be attorney general, Police establishment in and near Port of Spain);
• Commander in Chief (bad state of the barracks);
• Council Office (militia, encouragement of immigration, John Losh's appointment as a member of Council);
• Law Officers (report on case of Benjamin Waters with reference to the Merchant Seamans Act);
• Board of Ordnance (repayment to Lieutenant Heitland from the Port of Spain gaoler, barracks);
• Treasury (treasurer's accounts for 1836, Mr Walker's securities as Treasurer, remarks on currency proclamation, passage money, pensions, toll levied on contractor's cart conveying troop supplies, no objection to ordinance concerning duties on goods and shipping at San Fernando wharfs, salaries).

Individuals:

• Dr Thomas Anderson, Inspector of Health of Shipping (leave of absence extension request);
• T Bunbury (applies for lieutenant governorship);
• Mr Bradfield (requests appointment as stipendiary magistrate);
• J H Bayford (requests appointment of attorney general for Edward Power);
• William Burnley (memorial from planters and merchants against the recent change in the government of Trinidad, request interview on emigration, introduction of labourers);
• T H Shadwell Clerke, Major (account of the pitch lake in United Service Journal);
• James Cochrane (declines appointment of judicial referee and taxador general);
• William Clunes (requests an appointment);
• Dr James Cadett (difficulties of the free labour system, suggests encouraging emigration);
• Charles Palmer Dimond (Mr Swindburne's address, Mr Swinburne's patent as vendue master);
• George Evans (requests decision on Mr Hughes' case for a Police pension);
• William Eccles (memorial of merchants and planters requesting unrestricting interaction with other island in matters such as emigration);
• Benito G Fernandez, Stipendiary Magistrate (understands French, his departure);
• Henry Fuller (requests appointment as attorney general);
• Sir Robert Ferguson (forwards a letter);
• Admiral Fleming (sends Benito G Fernandez requesting appointment to Saint Joseph District which had many Spanish speakers).

Public Record(s)

Open Document, Open Description

Topics

International

Labour

Army

Trade and commerce

Migration

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Navy

Banking

Armed Forces (General Administration)