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 (Paris Exhibition payment, conduct of Mr Cadiz, public buildings debentures, tram road debentures, lecture and residence certificates for Henry C Bowen and T R Cadiz, sewerage debentures, J N Rat's allowance);
• Foreign Office (Venezuelan claim to Patos Island, appointment of O Allen as United States Consul, removal of Henry Besson and his sister Maria from France);
• Land Board (draft ordinance for appointment of a surveyor general, disposal of Crown Lands);
• General Post Office (rates of postage charged on letters sent by French mail packets);
• European Assurance Society (Receiver General Russell's bond);
• Treasury (expenditure for Roman Catholic priest's rectory and house, Governor Gordon's passage allowance, account of investments on sinking fund, botanist's lodging allowance, allowance for acting cashier to the receiver general, audit queries on accounts of 1865, Rev H Taaffe's pension claim, proposed reconstruction of the Medical Department, assistant harbour master's salary, supplementary estimates for 1866, Appropriation Ordinance, Treasury cashier's allowance, Escheated Property Ordinance, Mr Murray's pension application, increase of Police Force, expenditure for additional accommodation in the Royal Gaol, Public Works expenditure);

Individuals:

• William Bridge (requests appointment as marshal);
• Henry Grattan Bushe (leave extension application);
• Walter Darwent (solicits appointment as surveyor general);
• Thomas Davis & Son (claim on C W Warner);
• E I Eagles (further leave extension request);
• H Fitzgerald (further leave extension request);
• Mrs Amelia Catherine Gomez (solicits an appointment for her son Raphael);
• Henry F J Guppy (leave of absence application, rate of salary during leave of absence, salary advance request);
• Robert Guppy (solicits interview);
• Mrs Eliza Hodgkinson (renews application for a part of her deceased husband's pension);
• Thomas Joe (improper sale of escheated property);
• Dr Richard Mercer (leave extension request);
• Charles Mayne (enquires about the surveyor generalship);
• R Russell (acknowledges receipt of pay, payment of part of his salary in England, surety as receiver general);
• Reverend John Taaffe (statement of his service, pension for services as missionary priest);
• William Wightman (property of deceased Peter Campbell);
• Samuel Gray Warner (complaint against M Gauteaume).

Topics

Road Transport

Government finances

International

Mutual societies

Religions

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Policing

Construction industries

Crown lands and estates

Sewerage

Americas

Communications