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

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

Offices:

• Admiralty (warrant appointing Lieutenant William Rowlatt as agent to the Senator, Admiralty pass for the Senator);
• Crown Agents (payment of bill of emigration agent at Sierra Leone, advertising in England for competition to superintend erection of public works, payment to Crabtree & Scott for stones for the San Fernando wharf, payment for printing of report of Privy Council appeals, bills drawn by Mr Ouseley);
• Council Office (regulation of the Courts of Civil and Criminal Justice);
• Foreign Office (alleged plot against the life of Louis Phillippe [partially in French], Señor Felix Pouchet's exequatur as Venezuelan Consul);
• Home Office (ordinances to introduce English criminal laws);
• Ordnance (purchase of building for establishment of a leper hospital);
• Treasury (expense of leper hospital, Archdeacon Cummings' salary, duty on imported church plate, aid for sufferers of the earthquake at Antigua and other islands, auditors' report on accounts for 1842, clerical aid to Mr La Coste, withdrawal of public money deposited in Colonial Bank, salary for magistrate at Toco, non-compliance with Mr Chipchase's request for an appointment for his son, Import Duties Ordinance, Appropriation Ordinance, use of the reserve Slave Compensation Fund to build a lunatic asylum, complaint concerning import duties, disbandment of the Manzanilla settlements);
• Land Board (Immigration Ordinance, squatting on Crown lands, rejection of Mr Ireland's claim);
• Colonial Bank (investment of £30,000 of public money in the three percent consols);
• Church Missionary (clergymen's salaries, liberated Africans in Sierra Leone).

Individuals:

• Bishop of Barbados (salary of Reverend George Cummins, ecclesiastical arrangements and institution of six parishes);
• Henry Boyle (£50 order which had not been received by Jane Boyle);
• Henry J Bradfield (his dismissal from magistracy, reconsideration of his case, reference to Mr Redhead's letter concerning his case);
• Reverend George Cummins (leave of absence, payment of salary, application for an extension);
• Henry Fuller (application for employment);
• William R Fitzallen (petition of his wife Mrs Maria Fitzallen requesting that he be given an appointment);
• G H Hooper (claims on the Repos estate);
• Horatio Huggins (improvement of the administration of justice, requests a legal appointment);
• George Jeremy (financial claims on Solicitor General Warner);
• Edward Jackson, Attorney General (requests the appointment of a second puisne judge);
• George Rose Junes (sends documents connected with Henry Bradfield's case);
• Marryat & Sons (asks that the emigration agent at Rio de Janeiro may be authorised to draw bills for payment of emigration expenses);
• Charles Marryat (conduct of governor of The Gambia in sending the Senator directly to Sierra Leone);
• J Marryat (seconds Mr Jackson's application for appointment of second puisne judge);
• G Ouseley (acceptance of bill drawn by his brother as Trinidad Agent for emigration purposes);
• Louis Stanislas and Miss Rose Stanislas (recovery of their father's property from their uncle);
• Sir George Stephen (case of Mr Miller, colonial duties);
• William Wyatt (enquiry regarding Mr O'Neil);
• Francis Nicholas West (requests that his pension be paid in England);
• Charles W Warner (requests appointment as attorney general).

Topics

Government finances

International

Labour

Mental illness

Trade and commerce

Migration

Religions

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Ireland

Construction industries

Crown lands and estates

Navy

Disasters and emergencies

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Africa