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:

• Crown Agents (F R Cadiz's lecture certificates, Mr Gomez's salary);
• Foreign Office (Italian Consul Guiseppe [Giuseppe] Cipirani, French Consular Agent Joliclere);
• General Post Office (money order accounts, registration of letters containing coins);
• Kew Gardens (seeds of Shiraz Tobacco);
• Trinity College Cambridge (examination papers for Queens Collegiate School);
• Board of Trade (Tonnage Duty Ordinance);
• Treasury (purchase of Mr Pruger's botanical library, improvement of Quays Ordinance, sinking fund and guaranteed loan, compensation to Police Inspector, circulation of American coins, revision of taxation, grant of £50 to Mr Stuart, addition to Police Force, value of Spanish and American dollars, payment of acting chief justice, appointment of hospital clerk, revenue and expenditure estimates, legislation affecting currency, supplemental estimates for 1864, Trading Companies Ordinance);
• War Office (cost of supplying small arms, proposal to have two instead of three companies of white troops, arms and accoutrements for the Police);

Individuals:

• Ashurst Morris & Co (assignment of land held by the Earl of Dundonald);
• Alexander W Anderson (salary and absent allowance);
• Bishop of Barbados (Marriage Ordinance);
• Charles Edward Bushe (leave of absence extension request);
• A Burton (claim against C W Warner);
• Alexander Burgess (thanks for receipt of despatches);
• Sir C Cuyler (resigns appointment of receiver general, candidacy of his brother Gerald Cuyler for a colonial appointment);
• Cavan Lubbock & Co (candidate for receiver generalship);
• R FitzSimons (passage);
• Theo Fuller, Stipendiary Magistrate (leave of absence extension);
• R Guppy (salary, leave of absence extension request);
• A P Hobson (application for receiver generalship);
• Thomas Kay (enquiry concerning his brother James Kay);
• Henry Liggins (works by Dr Anderson on the treatment of yellow fever and cholera);
• George P McKenzie (leave of absence extension);
• N W Pollard (requests a colonial appointment);
• Reverend William Reid (enquiry regarding James Sandison of Scotland who went to Trinidad in 1847);
• William Sugars (application for position of third master in Collegiate School);
• Rowley Hill Stewart (arrival in London on leave of absence);
• R J Sanderson Smith (requests appointment as treasurer or postmaster);
• Thresher & Glenny (claim against Captain H G Bushe);
• James Walker (Mr Sealy's fitness for appointment as acting chief justice).

Topics

Government finances

International

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Marriage and divorce

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Policing

Disease

Food and drink

Banking

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns