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

CO 295/135

1841

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

Offices:

• Admiralty (non-obstruction of emigration vessel Elizabeth Jane, Sir George Hill's passage, Lieutenant D'Urban's expenses, pass for the Cleopatra);
• Crown Agents (Lieutenant Heitland's repayment, hospital surgical instruments, printing press, Stone's practice of Petty Sessions);
• Council Office (order for the protection of immigrants);
• Home Office (report on Police Act);
• Law Officers (power of landlords to eject tenants);
• Board of Ordnance (conduct of storekeeper in charge of gunpowder);
• Treasury (salaries to Emigration Agents, salaries under Police Ordinance, Mr Hickton's pension, constitution of San Fernando as a free port, medicine and surgical instruments, payment of bills drawn for 'Negro Education' vote, non-grant of money to Mrs Basanta, loss on bills of exchange, recovery of £75 from Stipendiary Magistrate Bloomfield, Cudjoe Lowe's petition for escheated property of late Tony Murray, J Malick's escheated property, opinion on certain ordinances, Major Ford's sureties, Mr Arnavon's salary increase, case of Herandais, Emigration Agent Hamilton's salary, grant to sufferers of Antigua fire, Stipendiary Magistrate Scott's passage allowance);
• Land Board (emigration of 'coloured people' from Upper Canada, rate of provisions for passengers arriving on merchant vessels from the colony, Colonel Warner's case, survey of Crown lands, report on the condition of the island);
• Geological Society (probability of earthquakes in Trinidad).

Individuals:

• Durant St Andre, French Consulate General (case of murder suspect Herandais [in French]);
• William Ballingal (property left by Mr Blyth);
• Mrs Maria Briggs (recovery of her late husband's property);
• John Bloomfield (requests reinstatement as a stipendiary magistrate);
• Henry J Bradfield (dismissal from magistracy, asks to succeed Captain Grey as stipendiary magistrate, financial claims on the government, plan to return, recovery of treasure from a sunken Spanish ship);
• George Constable (intends to forward a letter addressed to Mr LaCoste);
• Sir Robert Campbell (Mr Bradfield's case);
• Charles Palmer Dimond (Joseph Swinburne's appointment as harbourmaster);
• Freshfield, Law Firm (claims of the Crown on the property of the late Henry St Hill);
• Mrs B E Gray (requests her husband to be moved to another island where French is not required, requests financial assistance due to the death of her husband);
• Captain William Gray (asks to be moved to another island where French is not required);
• W Grindlay (requests employment);
• A Gomez (requests appointment as first puisne judge);
• Edmonstone Hodgkinson (pension);
• Joseph Hume (Henry Bradfield's case);
• W Hamilton (salary as Sierra Leone emigration agent);
• Lewis J C Johnson (medical certificate, leave of absence extension request, retiring allowance);
• A Labertouche (pass for the Cleopatra);
• George LaCoste (applies for compensation for losses caused by his suspension from office, leave of absence extension request, Ordinance No 15, claim to pension on abolition of office);
• Mrs Catherine McElroy (recovery of her uncle's property);
• Daniel MacDonald (arrival on leave of absence);
• Edward McMillan, Solicitor (law that exists on the island);
• Charles Marryat (emigration ship for Sierra Leone, Emigration Ordinance, W Hamilton's report on emigration, requests Sir John Jeremie's letter regarding W Hamilton, justification of Mr Hamilton's conduct, alteration in scale of rations for emigrants, W Hamilton's appointment as Emigration Agent);
• Joseph Marryat & Sons (pass for the emigrant ship Cleopatra);
• Robert B Pitman, former Special Magistrate (requests employment);
• George Scotland (leave of absence extension request - threatens to resign his office);
• Henry D Shapter, Solicitor (petition from Reme Bonair and others for compensation for land and buildings taken for public service);
• John Scott, Stipendiary Magistrate (arrival on leave of absence, resigns position, requests appointment elsewhere, passage allowance home);
• Sir George Stephen (Malick's escheated land);
• Philip Souper (pension, offer of a Consulate enquiry);
• Rev Alexander Whyte, Minister of Fettercairn (enquiries after J Whyte with reference to property);
• John Weiss & Son (surgical instruments);
• Edward Warner, Colonel (claim to certain land).

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