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 Agent (Thomas R Cadiz's student certificate, stores for Police, debentures);
• Council Office (declaration regarding rates of certain coins);
• Foreign Office (United States Consul Edward H Fitt, seizure of Trinidadian boat by Venezuela, gold medal presented to Dr Leotand);
• Home Office (Dr Murray order of admission to visit Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum);
• Land Board (Captain Cochrane's application to purchase land, oil lands, Mr Warner's salary during leave of absence, lease of Crown Lands for raising of pitch and petroleum, Mr Warner's leave extension);
• General Post Office (registration of coin letters);
• Portuguese Consulate General (documents for verification);
• Board of Trade (Trading Companies, Custom Laws, J Coffey's Patent, and Steam Vessels Ordinances);
• Treasury (cost of building a Roman Catholic Church, investments on account of sinking fund, salary of acting chief justice, fixing rates of currency, passage allowance, increase to Police Force, Mr Bulwer's bond as Receiver General, M Lutton's travelling allowance, expenditure on the Royal Gaol, stone breaking machine for the Royal Gaol, alteration in route of mail packets, Mr Guiliauy's application for the escheated bail of Francisco Calafat, proposed convict depot at Point a Pierre, purchase of Police station at Savana Grande, allowances for messengers in the Colonial Secretary's Office, Dr Anderson's pension);
• War (Lieutenant Patten as Acting Superintendent of Public Works, supply of rifles, repair of rifles);

Individuals:

• Alexander W Anderson, Inspector of Schools (extension of leave);
• Bishop of Barbados (appointment of curates);
• L Bulwer (bond as Receiver General);
• Dr Barry (Reverend J Taaffe's medical certificate);
• Captain Cochrane (modification in price of Crown Lands);
• Marie de Lenard (requests Edmund Roche's death certificate);
• Reverend C Domville (Mr Hughes's memorial asking for a colonial appointment);
• E I Eagles (leave extension);
• H A Fitt (arrival in England on leave);
• J M Farfan (colonial appointment request);
• R L Guppy (leave extension);
• Henry Hicks, Landing Waiter (arrival in Ireland on leave of absence);
• Mrs Elizabeth Hodgkinson (pension application);
• Henry Hughes, Warden (applies for registrar of Courts position);
• D Hart (removal to another colony);
• Robert W Keate (application for re-employment)
• J P Lambert (third master of collegiate school);
• Dr Murray (admission for visit to Broadmoor);
• R McCowan (requests colonial appointment in Trinidad);
• James Meagher, Superintendent of Public Works (extension of leave, employment in a better climate, return to duties);
• Kennedy M'Haly [?] (possession of property of deceased Gillies M Bean by his illegitimate child);
• Simon E Phillips (requests free passage to London);
• Richard Russell, Auditor General (leave of absence application, salary, acting as receiver general);
• Mrs Tawnley (her brother R W Keate's address);
• Reverend John Taaffe (application for superannuation allowance as a Roman Catholic Priest);
• J Manner Sutton, Governor (Mr Russell, half salary, case of Mr Eversley);
• R S Wright (prison discipline).

Topics

Government finances

International

Labour

Mental illness

Trade and commerce

Medals

Religions

Caribbean

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Policing

Ireland

Construction industries

Crown lands and estates

Americas

Banking

Communications

Operations, battles and campaigns

Prisons