Letters from various individuals on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and...

Letters from various individuals on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Durant St Andre (import export duty ordinance requested);
• Joseph S Agostini, Barrister (escheat of J Smith's property);
• Major J Adair (requests Captain Lewis James Hay's health certificate);
• Lieutenant Colonel E Archer (requests appointment of acting governor, allowances as acting governor, requests employment in the colonial service);
• J Bidwell (requests Henry Dillon's death certificate);
• Sampson Brissier, 'native of Africa' (petition for compensation money due to him);
• Chalmers Guthrie & Company (recommends confirmation of Mr Fuller's appointment as Second Puisne Judge);
• Miss Elizabeth Christie (petition requesting assistance as the daughter of George Christie the late Assistant Quartermaster General of the Surveying Department);
• James Chipchase (asks for the address of Charles Chipchase);
• Mr Dunlop (letter for Lady McLeod);
• Sir Lewis Grant (recommends Mr Wyllys' promotion to a puisne judgeship);
• Frederick Hamilton (position of emigration agent for Jamaica, British Guiana and Trinidad for liberated Africans, payment of a £50 bill);
• Rev J Hamilton (arrival, salary);
• Charles Hobson (requests appointment of official assignee);
• John Jones (protests against the ordinance for establishing a Court of Appeal in cases of offences punishable on summary convictions);
• Charles Fred Knox, Stipendiary Magistrate (arrival on leave, requests a leave extension);
• A Kennedy (claim for payment for services on board the Fairy Queen as medical attendant on African immigrants in quarantine);
• Dr Thomas Murray (requests a leave extension);
• George M Henry, former Surgeon of the Liberated African Establishment in St Helena (requests appointment as emigration agent at Sierra Leone);
• A Macgregor (memorandum on the Contract Ordinance);
• H C Ouseley (leave of absence and consequent arrangement, remarks on plan for remodelling the Emigration Agencies at Rio de Janeiro);
• John Simson (signature to be attested);
• George Scotland (leave of absence, inability to get passage on a steamer);
• Dr Richard P Smith, Bishop of Olympus (requests a full salary while on leave, securing of a Roman Catholic priest);
• Louis Stanislas (claim to property withheld by Jean Baptiste Paul);
• Lord Sandon (enquiry regarding the estate and effects of shipbuilder Robert Bannister);
• White, Blake, Tyler and Fawkener (requests former Chief Justice Ashton Warner's death certificate);
• Thomas Tilson (requests an interview regarding a certain ordinance);
• Arthur White (leave of absence, medical certificate, payment of half salary);
• Mrs Catherine Warner (enquiry regarding the addition of the attorney general's name to a list of Trinidad Railway directors);
• Sorzano v McSwiny (documents related to the case of Martin Sorzano, Commissary of Population and Surveyor General, against Bryan McSwiny 'to compel the Department to take down and remove a gallery or projection annexed to his house on Frederick Street in Port of Spain').

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