Letters from individuals [G-Z] on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and...

CO 295/128

1839

Letters from individuals [G-Z] on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Mrs B E Gray (requests assistance, asks that her stipendiary magistrate husband may be allowed to draw his salary for the period he was deprived of his office by Sir G Hill);
• William Grindlay (requests an appointment and allowance for expenses incurred as a stipendiary magistrate);
• G Gordon, Consul (asks if any privilege was allowed to French ships carrying passengers and if a premium was allowed to emigrants settling in Trinidad);
• Sir Lewis Grant (recommends that Mr Jackson not be appointed as attorney general, recommends Mr Wylly as attorney general and subsequently as solicitor general);
• G Hill (defends Sir G Hill against Captain Hodgson's charges);
• Henry Hill (supports Dr Anderson's leave of absence extension application);
• Joseph Hume (papers for Mr Burnley, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce enquiry regarding emigration from Sierra Leone to Trinidad);
• Benjamin Hughes, former Chief of Police (memorial requesting employment);
• John Helps (requests Sir G Hill's death certificate);
• Thomas Houlbrooke and Mrs Jane Williams (petition to recover property from Mr Gloster who had acted as attorney for them);
• Edmonstone Hodgkinson (pension, medical certificate of his health, remissions in the collection of taxes, duties of marshal's office, requests payment of allowances due to the office of provost marshal);
• Mrs Jeannetta Jackson (requests that her son be appointed as attorney general);
• Lewis Johnston (leave of absence extension request, medical certificate);
• John Jones (inhabitants dissatisfaction with change of government, new rank of governor);
• Robert Langslow (declines judicial referee appointment);
• George LaCoste (requests appointments of judicial referee and attorney general);
• C Lushingston (sends a memorial from Robert Pitman requesting appointment as stipendiary magistrate in some other colony);
• Lyon Barnes & Ellis (requests Sir G Hill's death certificate);
• James H Murray (reappointment as stipendiary magistrate, states plan to return, requests salary from date of suspension);
• John McCarel (asks the name of the present governor);
• Henry Murray, member of Council (leave extension request, memorial against change of government, appointment of treasurer);
• Edward Murray (requests permission to draw salary from Colonial Agents);
• Albert William Murray (allowance for his father, requests employment);
• R B Pitman (speaks French but does not understand the labourers' patois, requests appointment as a stipendiary magistrate);
• Robert Pitman, William Grindlay, W B Strugnell (complain that the lieutenant governor did not continue them as stipendiary magistrates);
• Edward Protheroe (supports Mr Fuller's application for appointment as attorney general, memorial from Bristol merchants related to 'negro' immigration from other colonies);
• P Protheroe, A MacGregor, Thomas Wilson, William Burnley (complain of arrangement for placing the colony under the Windward Islands);
• Lewis Pantin (requests an interview and reconsideration of his case);
• G Roots (requests appointment as attorney general);
• George Reid (salary while acting as treasurer, claims to appointment of treasurer);
• John Scott (can speak French, passage money, requests appointment as treasurer);
• W B Strugnell (cannot speak French, testimonials);
• Rowley Hill Stewart, Harbour Master (arrival on sick leave, leave extension request, leave of absence not reported to the governor);
• George Scotland, Chief Justice (objections to gaol rules and regulations);
• Reverend Dr Richard P Smith, Coadjutor Bishop (marriage order, grant of money and system for the education of newly emancipated 'Negro' Roman Catholics);
• John Turnbull (half salary as colonial secretary, leave extension request);
• Charles Vallatton (supports Mr Cockerton's application for appointment as judicial referee);
• Mrs Eliza J Warner (asks for a salary increase).

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