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

CO 295/138

1842

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

Offices:

• Admiralty (passes for emigrant ships Chieftain and Harvest Home, Lieutenant D'Urban's expenses, Sir Henry McLeod's Vice Admiralty commission, answer to Sir McLeod's objections to the proposed new steam packet route);
• Crown Agents (bills drawn by Sir Henry McLeod, payment of Crabtree & Scott's £160 order, Emigration Agent at Sierra Leone Mr Abbott's salary);
• Commander in Chief (recommends favourable consideration of Mr Gray's case);
• Council Office (reports of commissioners of national education in Ireland, Order approving Sir Henry McLeod's appointment as governor);
• Board of Trade (cocoa cultivation);
• Foreign Office (liberated Africans at Rio de Janeiro may be sent to Trinidad, request for the Venezuelan Government to give up a woman named Santos Sadeno who was being held in slavery, hostile intentions of General Carmona against Venezuela);
• Law Officers (issuing of an Admiralty commission);
• Treasury (enquiry regarding Attorney General Jackson's whereabouts, report on the Wildes & Pickersgill case, Lieutenant D'Urban's expenses, £100 for Mrs Gray widow of Stipendiary Magistrate Gray, £100 salary increase for surgeon of public hospitals, no objection to Ordinance No 13 for making copies of bank charters in Courts of Law, colonial bank's application to receive surplus revenue, confirmation of Leper Ordinance No 7, plan for superintendence of public roads, Sir Henry McLeod's fees, Manzanilla settlements of disbanded soldiers, Bills drawn in favour of Wildes & Pickersgill, accounts of 1837, withdrawal of claims on the colonial Treasury for bills defraying the cost of slave prosecutions, payment of portion of surplus revenue into the West India Bank, repayment of £300 to Crabree & Co, remarks on Ordinance No 6 'Way and Means', Curate of Ticaragua Mr Hamilton's travelling expenses, £100 salary increase for Mr Warner, Captain Allen's bond as Treasurer);
• War Office (Mrs Anderson's pension);
• Army Medical Department (allowance of requisition for medicine for colonial hospital, no objection to ordinance for establishing an asylum for destitute lepers);
• Church Missionary Society (asks who is the Bishop of Trinidad);
• British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society (memorial on Ordinance related to liberated Africans);

Individuals:

• Anonymous (financial embarrassments of Attorney General Jackson);
• Henry Anderson (requests appointment as Treasurer);
• William H Burnley (squatting on land);
• Henry Bradfield (complaint regarding the investigation into his conduct, requests payment of £150 passage money, applies for appointment made vacant due to the death of Captain Murray, requests interview concerning his dismissal from the magistracy, complaint concerning treatment by Sir Henry McLeod, requests copies of the report on his case and certain other papers);
• Martin Crowley (enquiry concerning certain property);
• Miss Louisa Eckstein (claim to certain property);
• Richard Godeffray, Consul of Baden (requests attestation of T F Johnston's signature);
• Reverend J Goldstein, Assistant Curate of Port of Spain (complaint against Reverend George Cummins);
• G H Hooper (claim for payment of £318 12s 10d plus eight years interest on the mortgage of the Mon Repos estate);
• Edward Jackson (requests a leave of absence extension);
• J Junes (questions whether Trinidad was to be made independent of Barbados);
• George Jeremy (claim against Mr Warner);
• George Rose Junes (charges against Mr Bradfield);
• Charles Marryat (complaint regarding the scarcity of labourers, emigration of liberated Africans from St Helena, liability of ships, payment of Crabtree Scott & Co owners of emigrant ships Elizabeth and Jane sent to Sierra Leone, proposed relaxation of rule in Emigration Ordinance relative to the proportion of the sexes for 'coloured people' emigrating from Canada);
• J Marryat & Sons (emigration of liberated Africans from St Helena and Sierra Leone, payment of bounty);
• J Marryat & Sons and other merchants (appointment of Captain Allen as Treasurer);
• Thomas Pemberton (wants a certificate of his good conduct while acting as assistant protector and registrar of slaves);
• Pender Genn & Genn (asks for the addresses of James Walker and W Gore Ouseley);
• Charles Sugrue (asks for exclusive rights to work Pitch Lake);
• James Walker (reports arrival on leave of absence, applies for a leave of absence extension, requests reimbursement of certain expenses acquired in British Guiana);
• William Wyatt (asks for the name and address of the agent for Trinidad).

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