Letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) and...

CO 295/249

1869

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, Auditor General Eagles' salary, Rev W B Laurie's salary, Corporal Barrett's passage, employment of a person to adjust the telegraph instruments);
• Foreign Office (repatriation of the Besson and Villanueva children from France, appointment of Domingos Montbrum as Vice Consul of Portugal in Trinidad, conveyance of English members of the congregation of St Joseph de Cluny to West Indian colonies);
• Land Board (settlement of Crown Land in the district of Montserrat, management and disposal of Crown Lands, transfer and registry of landed property, sale and occupation of land);
• Law Officers (the discretion of the receiver general to refuse a licence under Ordinance No 25 of 1860);
• Royal College of Physicians (Dr Bakewell's visit to Venezuela to investigate Dr Beauperthy's leprosy treatment) [printed for Parliament May 1871];
• Guys Hospital (reports lack of knowledge concerning the appointment of a house surgeon in Trinidad);
• St Bartholomew Hospital (appointment of a house surgeon for the Port of Spain hospital);
• Offices of Primary Education Commission (requests copies of Mr Keenan's report on the condition of education Trinidad);
• The European Assurance Society (surety of deceased Receiver General Richard Russell);
• Treasury (improvement of the quays at Port of Spain, estimates of Trinidad for 1869, guaranteed loan for 1868, confirmation of Trinidad Ordinances Nos 28 and 29 of 1868, requisition of iron work for the construction of two bridges, grant of superannuation allowance to A W Anderson, Mr Murray's pension, H T Bowen's superannuation allowance, no objections to the Supplementary Estimate and Appropriation Ordinance, Chaguanas Convict Establishment expenditure, appointments made for the management of Crown Lands, Mr Keenan's expenses for school inspections, hospital appointments, J S Warner's pension, Ordinance No 15 of 1869 to allow the superintendent of public works to act as inspector of roads, payment of curates' salaries and their movement between islands, appointments and salaries of sanitary inspector for the borough of the Port of Spain and Medical Officer of Health, augmentation of salaries, arrangements in the county of Victoria due to the death of the supervisor);
• War Office (Yellow Fever among troops stationed in Trinidad, removal of troops to Barbados, discontinuance of firing morning or evening guns);

Individuals:

• J G Porter Atthill, Chief Justice at St Lucia (application for appointment as chief justice of Trinidad);
• John Barton & Sons (requests the address of H G Bushe);
• Henry Bulmer, Receiver General (four months' leave of absence extension request, recommendation from Sir Ronald Martin that he remain in England for health reasons);
• Downing Bruce, District Judge in Jamaica (application for appointment as chief justice of Trinidad);
• Thomas Barrett, Police Corporal (passage allowance) [not included in volume; sent to Crown Agents];
• H H Perry, Bishop Coadjutor of Barbados (withdrawal of the salary of the Archdeacon of Trinidad from the colonial estimates, statement showing the Trinidad crop of 1869 according to county, product, and producer);
• Horace FitzGerald (six month leave of absence extension request);
• Arthur Gordon (late Trinidad Railway Company Limited plans, extension of Henry Bulwer's leave of absence, rate of barrister F Warner's pay, appointment of an assistant in the Public Works Department);
• Charles Hyde, Auditor General of Australia (application for appointment as auditor general of Trinidad);
• Robert John Harris (application for appointment as auditor general of Trinidad);
• J P Huggins (application for appointment as house surgeon);
• O Harley, Sixth Clerk in the Receiver General's Office (application for an extension of leave of absence for six weeks, further leave of absence extension request, return passage to Trinidad);
• P J Keenan (passage to the West Indies, transmission of his report on education in Trinidad);
• Lyn & Hall (debt owed by Grattan Bushe);
• Rev W Bovell Laurie, Rector of St Philip's and St Peter's (appeal for allowance for a curate to work among the liberated Africans and their descendents in the ward of Montserrat, further leave of absence extension request);
• Rev F Marchesi (leave of absence extension request);
• C F Newland (accepts appointment as stipendiary magistrate, passage for his family, calculation of service for pension purposes, salary);
• J Samuda (claim for Puisne Judge Bowen's pension);
• W H Stewart (application for appointment as chief justice of Trinidad);
• John Taaffe (consideration of his case, requests payment of a £100 gratuity);
• Frederick Warner (application for appointment as chief justice of Trinidad).

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