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

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

Offices:

• Admiralty (requests information about a lighthouse);
• Crown Agents (expense of emigrant ship Senator, liberated Africans from Rio de Janeiro, requisition for medicine, expense of materials for the leper asylum and colonial hospital, expenses in a case involving Hall & Boys, salaries and bills of the emigration agents at St Helena, Rio de Janeiro, and Sierra Leone);
• Foreign Office (liberated Africans and cargo sent by the Earl Grey from Rio de Janeiro, request for Belgian subject Francois de Coster's death certificate, emigration from Madeira);
• Law Officers (give opinions on: Usury Law, Testimonial Ordinance, Wills Ordinance, Ordinances Nos 5, 8, and 12-14);
• Ordnance (hire of land and building for a leper hospital);
• Treasury (purchase of Ordnance buildings for leper hospital, collection of duties, advance to be repaid by emigration agent at Sierra Leone, grant to Wesleyan Methodists mission house, Captain Chayton's appointment as Superintendent of Public Buildings approved, auditor's report on two bills of exchange, breaking up of Manzanilla settlements, duty on articles for Roman Catholic Church not to be remitted, expenses of stores for emigration ship Senator, proposed abolition of emigration agent at St Helena, report on Ordinance No 4 regarding house rent in Port of Spain, expenses of the Bishop's visitations, £100 grant for Mr Mulhausen, Archdeacon Cummins' salary, expenses of 60 'Negro' emigrants on the Margaret, passage money for military convicts, liberated African stores issued to the Senator, salary due to the late George Abbott, John Smith's escheated property);
• Land Board (Lieutenant Rowlatt's views on emigration, proportion of males and females among immigrants, report on return of emigrants arrived, Fairy Queen, Medical Attendant Kennedy's application for payment for work in quarantine for African emigrants, abolition of liberated African establishment at St Helena, Dr Rolph's claim for payment for acting as emigration agent in Canada, proposal to get labourers from the Bahamas, discharge of the emigration ship Senator, reduction of emigration agent's salary at Sierra Leone, Mr Guppy's mission to Sierra Leone to investigate the failure of emigration from there, re-engagement of the Senator to convey liberated Africans on bounty, emigration from Madeira and Canary Islands for cultivation of cocoa estates, expenses for African emigrants from St Helena, bills of emigration agents at St Helena and Sierra Leone);
• General Post Office (establishment of a Post Office at San Fernando).

Individuals:

• John Butler (requests leave of absence extension);
• Henry Bradfield (requests copy of a return of West Indian produce in 1844, advertisement for 'Sixteen Years in the West Indies' by Lieutenant Colonel Capadose of the first West India Regiment, acknowledges decision on his case, requests commissioners report);
• Reverend G Cummins, Archdeacon (salary and bills, leave extension request, medical certificate, complains of his 'hard fate');
• George D Dempster (payment for the conveyance home of two convicts);
• Joseph Entwistle (Richard Robinson's fate);
• Frere, Foster & Co (asks the date of Sir G Hill's death);
• James Graham (enquiry regarding his son David);
• Thomas Hinds (petition against the Loan Ordinance);
• Daniel Hart (pamphlet on the case of the cocoa planters in Trinidad);
• George Rose Junes (Mr Bradfield's case);
• A Kennedy (petition requesting payment for his services as medical attendant to the Fairy Queen Emigration ship from St Helena);
• George McHenry, former Surgeon to the Liberated African Establishment at St Helena (requests re-employment as emigration agent at Sierra Leone);
• H L Ouseley, Emigration Agent at Rio de Janeiro (expresses regret for irregularity in not sending certificate with bill for salary);
• Dr Thomas Rolph (employment as emigration agent in Canada, requests repayment of expenses, inadequacy of allowance);
• Sir George Stephen (surcharge for colonial duties on his client Mr Miller);
• Patrick St Ledger (enquiry regarding his brothers William and Walter);
• Thomas Wilson (opinion in favour of an ordinance to alter the law respecting the rights to property of married women);
• Various merchants and others (petitions against the ordinance for the free disposition of property).

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