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 (charge against Captain Watson, Mr Meagher's passage from Jamaica);
• Crown Agents (Admiralty's claim for Mr Leahy's passage, pay due to deceased Mr Curle, redemption of debentures, Thomas Raymond Cadiz's £150 scholarship, debentures held by Robert William Keate);
• Council Office (ballasting ships with tidal mud);
• Foreign Office (order conferred on George Garcia by the Pope, Mr Court's complaint against the Venezuelan government, claim of Venezuelan Agent Elio Martin, Mr Urich's application for naturalisation, appointment of Nicolas L Humphrey as United States' Consul, appointment of Guiseppe [Giuseppe] Drago as Italian Consul, seizure of the Albion at Ciudad Bolivar, enquiry respecting Italians Joseph Penco and Joseph Giovanetti);
• Home Office (Mr Urich's application for naturalisation, proposed new court house and gaol at San Fernando);
• Land Board (lease of land to the Earl of Dundonald);
• General Post Office (money order system, non-receipt of money order remittances);
• Charles Gray (answers from pupils);
• Royal Humane Society (medal for boatman Richard Boadkin for rescuing Colonial Secretary J Scott Bushe);
• Office of Commissioners in Lunacy (increase of staff at the Lunatic Asylum);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (appointment of Mr Pasto as botanist, Dr Finlay's proposal to publish the work on flora left unfinished by Mr Pruger, Colonial Flora publication by W J Hooker);
• Colonial Bank (Granting Power to Banks Ordinance);
• Trinity College Cambridge (examination papers for Queens College);
• Board of Trade (Marine Court of Inquiry Ordinance, Earl of Dundonald's Patent Ordinance, mortality from Yellow Fever on a vessel from British Guiana [Guyana], commercial code of signals);
• Treasury (investments for sinking fund, receiver general accounts for 1853-1855, appointment of an assistant clerk of the peace for the eastern district of St George County, C E Buckingham's defalcations, increase of salary to Mr Cazabon, increase of staff at the Lunatic Asylum, vacancies in the Registrar General's Department, gratuity of £100 granted to Mrs Sorzano, supplemental estimates, disallowance of Trading Companies Ordinance, J H T Manners Sutton's passage allowance, lighting the town of Port of Spain with gas, R W Keate's passage allowance, pension for Joseph Vincent Farfan, Appropriation Ordinance, calculation of Philip Thompson's pension, court house and jail at San Fernando, Incorporation of Companies Ordinance);
• War Office (restoration of 'Black' troops, exchange of land);

Individuals:

• Hurbert T Bowen (leave of absence extension request);
• S S Baxter, Captain (application for Police appointment);
• Anthony H Curle, (leave of absence extension request, payment of half salary);
• G H Curle (death of Anthony H Curle);
• Sir Charles Cuyler (further leave of absence extension request);
• Thomas Raymond Cadiz (payment of his £150 scholarship to attend Corpus Christi College Cambridge);
• John Coleman (application for sub-inspectorship of Police);
• Earl of Dundonald (Crown property leased to his father);
• Reverend Remigius Debbaudt (appointment to fill the Roman Catholic curacy);
• Lionel Frazer (application for registrar generalship);
• Robert Henry Fitzsimons, Police Sub-Inspector (medical certificate, departure for Trinidad);
• Dr F H Gonin (passages for three Roman Catholic priests);
• Robert W Keate (passage allowance upon retirement, application for re-employment);
• Charles Peniston (request for assistance);
• William Reid, Assistant Minister in Keith (fate of a person named Sandison);
• J H T Manners Sutton (assumption of the government, defers departure for Trinidad for two months, lighting of Port of Spain using gas, appointment of a sub inspector of Police, passage);
• Michael Shea, Constable (medical certificate, declines appointment as sub inspector of Police);
• George Stone (escheated property of his grandfather Thomas Edmondson);
• Rev J Taaffe (leave of absence extension request);
• Philip Thompson (salary of sub-inspectorship of Police);
• Mr de Vere (recommends R Fitzsimons for the post of sub-inspector of Police);
• R S Wright (returns documents sent for his consideration);
• Charles W Warner (leave of absence extension request).

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