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 (passages of various colonial officers and their families, warrant issued for Governor Keate's commission as Vice Admiral);
• Colonial Agent (shipment of postage stamps, mail bags, stationery, and police clothing);
• Colonial Office (Mrs Alcock recommended as superintendent for the female model school);
• Foreign Office (Mr Spaccapietra's claims as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Trinidad, Joseph Guiseppi's appointment as Venezuelan Consul and Confidential Agent, property of Mr Descovie, judicial acts to be sent to Mr Dumoret, enquiry respecting the Abbe Parmetrat, Mr Scheult's appointment as French Vice Consul);
• Home Office (use of title 'Royal' by a philanthropic lodge);
• Treasury (mines and minerals, estimates for 1856, D Clarke's application for submarine wrecking exploration, proposed second steamer for coasting service, customs seizure of case of muskets from the Ellen, sewerage of washhouses on the Orange Grove Estate, irregularities of 1848 accounts, sanctions John Black's appointment as overseer of Public Works, audit queries regarding Treasurer Allen's accounts of 1854, unauthorised payments, approval of expenditure connected with Mora forest and saw mills, Governor Keate's passage allowance, salary due to G P Wall, interest on loans, sanctions Estimates and Appropriation Ordinance 1857);
• War Office (governor's proposals for Naval and Military Establishments, claim of officer commanding regarding inland postage);
• West India Committee (objections to Tram Roads Loan Ordinance);
• West India Proprietors (objections to Tram Roads Loan Ordinance);
• General Board of Health (reports on Health Boards and Contagious Disease Ordinances);
• Trinidad Reform Association (financial reforms, alleged mismanagement of the Post Office, proposed loan for a steamer, printed minutes of the association from 22 October 1855 to 31 July 1856);
• Department of Science (oil of the Avocado Pear Tree);
• Philanthropic Lodge (wishes permission to use term 'Royal');

Individuals:

• J A Allen, Receiver General (leave of absence extension request, return passage for self and family);
• Mrs Sarah Alcock (departure to take up appointment, salary advance, passage certificate);
• Ashurst Sons & Morris (railway scheme);
• Alexander W Anderson, Inspector of Schools (requests half salary while on leave of absence);
• H T Bowen (claim to compensation for loss of office of puisne judge, arrival on sick leave, enquiry regarding official position and prospects, additional sick leave of absence request);
• Mrs Emily Coull (enquiry regarding complaint and claim connected with money due to the late Mrs Fernandez);
• Eccles Templeton & Co (proposed loan applied for by agents for an auxiliary steamer and the Reform Association's petition against it);
• Sir Charles Elliot (juvenile offenders, industrial training);
• Lieutenant Colonel James Fagan (further information concerning his case and claims);
• Halifax and Company (account of stationery supplied);
• Richard Keogh (his deceased uncle's property);
• R W Keate (passage allowance, departure for colony);
• Henry Mitchell, Agent General of Immigrants (passage, applies for grant in aid of 'Hindu' Immigrants schools);
• P MacMahon (recommends additional sick leave of absence to Dr Neilson, Dr Neilson's application for a pension);
• Marryatt & Sons (nominate F Scott for the Council);
• Napier & Son (applies for licence for removal of bitumen from pitch lakes for manufacturing patent fuel for Belgium);
• Dr Thomas Neilson, Gaol Physician (extension of sick leave of absence request, asks to retire on a pension);
• Reverend Samuel Richards (passage);
• James L Wildman (retired compensation of £272);
• John Wilson (extension of leave of absence request);
• Mrs Eliza J Warner (requests appointment of her son Thorton as Colonial Secretary);
• George Wall (request permission to receive his son's salary).

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