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, coal deposits, supply of Mora timber, conveyance of plants and seeds free of charge);
• Crown Agents (shipment of supplies such as stationery and postage stamps, passage and salary advance for the botanical gardener, payment of Hindley & Sons, purchase of debentures, tender for the dredging machinery for Port of Spain, payment of interest on certain debentures to Mrs Catherine Fuller, payment of Emigration Commissioners from sale of debentures);
• Emigration Office [Land Board] (draft contract between the Governor of Trinidad and the Trinidad Railway Company for the construction of railways, regulations respecting the cutting of wood on Crown Lands, alleged attempt by an American company to make a road through the estate of Lord Dundonald);
• Foreign Office (complaint by the Venezuelan government concerning the proceedings of Venezuelan refugees in Trinidad, request of late Venezuelan government to furnish and equip steamers in Trinidad, appointment of J P K Stevenson as an unpaid British vice consul at Maturin);
• Home Office (rules and regulations for the Royal Gaol at Port of Spain);
• Treasury (increase of salaries for various officers, revenue and expenditure estimates, Appropriation Ordinance, discrepancy between the estimated and actual cost of the colonial hospital in Port of Spain, construction of bridges over rivers in St Joseph and Tacarigua, purchase of land for barracks, estimate for building public baths, purchase of premises rented as a Police Station at Santa Cruz, appointment of an assistant clerk to the Royal Gaol, estimates for making alterations to the gaol, surety for Receiver General Clinton Francis Berens Dawkins, supplemental estimates, suggested alterations to the Receiver General's Office, erection of a dead house, wash house and house of refuge for destitute immigrants; underground drainage and sewerage in Port of Spain, payment of interest and sinking fund on the guaranteed loan, delay in the delivery of the 1856 accounts of civil list grants, restoration of the allowance for clerical assistance to the attorney general, large expense for the construction of the governor's residence, draft agreement for steam communication in the Gulf of Paria, payment of C Dawkins' renewal premium on the policy of guarantee, payment of full salary of the office of receiver general to James Francis Knox, £600 towards the construction of a Roman Catholic Church in Port of Spain, Mr Cornavon's pension, former Provost Marshal George Adderley's request for the revival of his pension, redemption of a £10,000 bond, additional provisions for bonding warehouses in San Fernando);
• War Office (conveyance of carriages for brass guns, Attorney General Warner's request for a commission in the army for his son, estimates for repairs and construction works to barracks, J R S Smith's application for appointment in the Commissariat Department);
• Trinidad Railway Company Limited (proposed terms of agreement between the government and the company for the construction of railways as contained in the Legislative resolutions, suggests Roger William Curtis to complete a preliminary survey and estimates for the railway);
• 'A few taxed proprietors and loyal subjects in behalf of our fellow colonists of Trinidad' (petition concerning 'religious discord and the prejudices of colour');
• Geological Survey Office (appointment and proceedings of West Indian Geological Surveyors G P Wall and M R Sawkins, resignation of G P Wall);
• The Committee of Vigilance (defalcations in the postmaster's accounts);
• General Post Office (death of Packet Agent Mrs Galwey, extension of inter-colonial book post).

Individuals:

• Ashurst & Sons (Trinidad Railway Company Limited);
• Unnamed (pamphlet of the celebration of the anniversary of 1 August 1838);
• Bishop of Barbados (report of a visitation of part of his diocese, copy of a sermon preached at the consecration of St Matthias' Chapel 3 June 1858);
• J Scott Bushe (appointment to act as colonial secretary, departure for Trinidad);
• William Henry Carter (enquiry regarding Colonial Secretary T F Johnston's location);
• A Cumming (complaints of partiality shown in awarding tenders for supplying steam communication in the Gulf of Paria);
• Edward Calvert (delay in departure for Trinidad);
• Clinton Dawkins (appointment as receiver general, passage);
• H Deighton (applies for post of principal of the Queen' Collegiate School);
• Lord Dundonald (alleged attempt by an American company to form a road through his estate);
• Charles Elliot (cost of the construction of the colonial hospital);
• Alfred Elborough (application for colonial secretaryship);
• E I Eagles (departure for Trinidad);
• Freshfield, solicitors (request for verification of Governor Robert Keate's and Chief Justice George Knox's signatures);
• Angus Galbreath [Galbraith] (enquiry regarding his brother John Galbreath);
• P A Ganteaume, Registrar General (return to Trinidad);
• Philip Young (appointment as acting Registrar of the Courts);
• R E Gould, Clerk in the Receiver General's Office (leave of absence extension request);
• C F Hancock (medals ordered for the Trinidad Exhibition);
• George Harris, former Governor (irregularities in the construction of public works during his administration of the government);
• William Barnley Hume (application for office of assistant receiver general);
• J Harragin, Inspector of Police (leave of absence certificate, medical certificates);
• Auguste Joseph (petition to Lieutenant Governor concerning a complaint against the governor of Trinidad, asks for a despatch to be delivered to 'the Emperor of the French Louis Napoleon the third' [in French]);
• Arthur McCarthy (sale of property belonging to the deceased Roger Higginson);
• Richard Mercer (return passage to Trinidad);
• Kennedy McNab (property left by Gillies M Blan);
• William Walkins Nash (enquiry concerning Anthony Heeley Curle);
• Bishop of Peterborogh (John Gordon's pension);
• Rowley Stewart, Harbour Master (leave of absence extension request, return passage for himself and his wife);
• William Sugars (return from leave of absence, request delay in departure due to the illness of his mother-in-law);
• Mrs Hamith Simmonds (money due to her late husband);
• James L Wildman (claim for public employment).

Topics

Refugees

Government finances

International

Litigation

Labour

Railways

Army

Medals

Migration

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Weapons

Coal

Construction industries

Crown lands and estates

Food and drink

Navy

Sewerage

Forestry