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 (passage rates for officers travelling on Royal Mail Steamers, passages for colonial officers);
• Crown Agent (postage label dyes, expense of sending articles for an exhibition, requisition for 10,000 postage stamps);
• Council Office (the repeal of part of an order relating to bequests and legacies, permanent effect given to an Ordinance for the holding of Supreme Civil and Criminal Courts before two judges, confirmation of Ordinance for establishing inland post and rates of postage, approval of Ordinances for Royal Roads and Public Roads);
• Foreign Office (boys kidnapped in Trinidad and sold into slavery in Venezuela, transmission of judicial documents, Dr Anderson's complaint of interference in his duties by the Venezuelan consul, Mr Augustus' complaint of being robbed of $2000 by the Venezuelan authorities, enquiry regarding Jean Baptiste Grageon);
• Treasury (deposit of public money in local banks, objects to Council's proposition to take up £10,000 on the imperial loan to repair Royal Road, British silver received into the Commissariat Chest at Trinidad due to colonial remittances, confirmation of an Ordinance for raising customs duties and regulating trade, auditors queries on accounts for 1848, erection of a bonding warehouse and jetty in Port of Spain, approval of estimates for 1851 and 1852, no objection to the Export Duties Ordinance, Mr Pemberton's claim on Mr Hodgkinson's pension, currency proclamation, no objection to the Port of Spain Library Ordinance, alterations to gaol at Port of Spain, reprinting and binding of Ordinances and Orders in Council, sanctions the Appropriation Ordinance, sanctions Produce Export Duty Ordinance, Improvement of Public Roads Ordinance, withdrawal of outlawry against Mr Hodgkinson, confirmation of Royal Roads Ordinance, salary of Stipendiary Curate Reverend Ralph Crichlow, bond of James Walker as Treasurer, stamp duty on Major Edward Frome's commission as Customs Collector);
• Exhibition Commissioners (acknowledges list of articles for exhibition);
• General Post Office (objections to a draft Inland Posts Ordinance);
• Land and Emigration Office (E Walkenshaw's application to acquire land in Trinidad in order to cultivate cotton);

Individuals:

• James Boyle, Sub Collector of Customs (extension of leave request);
• Henry J Bradfield (claim to Spanish warships sunk during the war);
• H T Bowen (applies for a contract passage);
• Chalmers Guthrie & Company (Mr Fuller's application for appointment as provost marshal);
• Bligh Daviacott (applies for appointment as provost marshal);
• James Fagan (complaint against public officers' alleged immorality at a 'Negro and Servants Ball');
• Major E Frome (expresses thanks for appointment as customs collector);
• William B Gould (applies for appointment as provost marshal, complains of his removal on the return of Mr Murray);
• Mrs B E Gray (requests that her son-in-law Mr Harragin be appointed as provost marshal);
• Edward Morgan Smith Griffith (complains of his suspension as clerk of the peace);
• W J Hughes (applies for appointment as provost marshal);
• Thomas Humphreys (suspension of Stipendiary Magistrate Bradfield);
• Charles J Le Plastrier (applies for appointment as provost marshal);
• Edward Murray (accepts appointment as provost marshal);
• Henry Scott (reports arrival, requests interview);
• Andrew R Scoble (applies for appointment of collector of customs for Charles Berkeley);
• Thomas Wilson (recommends John Scott Bushe for appointment as marshal);
• Edward Walkinshaw (proposition to purchase Crown land to cultivate cotton, pamphlet concerning the suitability of Trinidad for growing cotton).

Topics

Road Transport

Government finances

International

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Migration

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Race relations

Crown lands and estates

Navy

Americas

Banking

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)