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 (redemption of debentures, advance to Mr Rat for King's College fees, Mr Bushe's retirement gratuity, supply of drugs and chemicals, articles for water works);
• Emigration Board (suppression of squatting, approval of Ordinance No 3 of 1868, application of Hume Bernard and Company for a land grant, Mr Turnbull's land grant, disposal of Crown Land, additions to the Court of Intendant, disapproval of Ordinances Nos 24 and 25);
• Foreign Office (French paupers Henry and Maria Besson, appointment of Dr D Montbrum and Robert Bogle as Consuls for Colombia in Jamaica and Trinidad, governor's proclamation forbidding the export of arms to Venezuela, three Trinidadian girls abandoned by their parents in France, appointment of Dr Mountbrum as Vice Consul for Brazil, appointment of G Fitt as Venezuelan Consul, Dr Bakewell's claim on the Venezuelan government);
• Geological Survey (bituminous fuel);
• General Post Office (issue of postage stamps);
• Royal College of Physicians (comments on Dr Bakewell's report on leprosy);
• University Local Examination, Cambridge (examination papers);
• Treasury (estimates for 1868, Ordinance for raising funds, increase to Police Force, sinking fund investment of guaranteed loan, expenditure for repairs of Leper Asylum, Mr Bushe's gratuity, appointment of an additional warden, supplementary estimates, Appropriation Ordinance, Mrs Pantin's £100 gratuity, Bank of England's claim to interest and commission on £125000 debenture, repair of St Philip's rectory, grant of £100 extra per year to Mr Hobson, expenditure of the Convict Establishment, Mr O'Brien's £100 gratutity, £500 grant to Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches, erection of a guardhouse at La Basse);
• War Office (appointment of an acting administer during the governor's absence, appointment of Captain Bushe as governor of the military prison);

Individuals:

• H G Bushe (leave extension request, retirement, pension, medical certificate showing him unfit for further service, application for £100 advance, application for payment of his gratuity, miscalculation of his gratuity);
• Hippolyte Coltat (application for free passage to Trinidad [in French]);
• Davis & Son (claim on Mr Warner, thanks for action taken);
• Robert Dalglish, Glasgow MP (letter from Tennant & Company concerning non representation on the Council);
• Arthur Gordon, Governor (objection to Mr Chipchase's application for a pay increase, Mr Murray's wish to continue in active service, Tennant & Company's complaint of non representation in the Council, strong opposition to petition against the employment of Sisters of Mercy at the Leper Asylum, petition of certain officers for pay increases, claim of Hume Bernard & Company regarding the disposal of Crown Lands, Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy's request for aid, plan and estimate for Police barracks, unsatisfactory relations between Mr Moorsoui and Mr Magher, Mr Cummings protest against Mr Turnbull's land grant, Ordinance No 19 of 1868, charging of Crown Lands assistant commissioner's salary on local funds, future arrangements for the disposal of Crown Lands, misconduct of Dr Mercer, appointment of Mr Waterfield to report on education, Ordinance for winding up of trading companies, Ordinance to abolish Court of Intendant, Ordinance to facilitate the settlement of Crown Land, postal communication between Orinoco and Venezuela);
• John Arthur Harragin (extension of leave request);
• O Harley (payment of his salary for October);
• Mrs Elizabeth Johnson (requests a larger portion of her husband's pension);
• Mrs Ann Keable (claims against H G Bushe);
• Henry Preston, Government Botanist (arrival on leave, extension of leave request, thanks for grant of leave extension);
• Ramsing 'Coolee Parsen' (petition for a grant of a quarry in a diamond estate);
• Rev John Taaffe (requests a pension);
• Samuel Gray Warner (reference to correspondence concerning complaint against Mr Gauteaume, fraudulent assessment of property).

Topics

Government finances

International

Labour

Mental illness

Public disorder

Army

Trade and commerce

Migration

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Policing

Children

Crown lands and estates

Debt

Disease

Americas

Banking

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)