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

Letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• House of Commons (resolution regarding the state of education in Trinidad);
• Crown Agents (redemption of debentures, payment of officers' salaries while on leave, requisitions for supplies, Mr Sealy's application for repayment of excess baggage charges);
• Council Office (rules of the Dublin and Battersea Training Schools, examination and classification of teachers, 1869 Yellow Fever Epidemic);
• Board of Trade (complaint regarding tonnage duties charged on the ship Burgermeister Kirstein);
• Treasury (Captain Newland's pension, 1869 guaranteed loan investments, grant of gratuities to widows of three public officers, Mr Sealy's pension calculation, former Stipendiary Magistrate Thomas Shirley Warner's pension, guaranteed loan repayment, Receiver General Eagles security);
• Foreign Office (Miss Helene Glasersfeld's death [in French], deportation of French convicts to Trinidad, distress of emigrants who sailed from Hamburg to Venezuela, operations of the American English and Venezuelan Trading Company, appointment of Dr Domingo Montbrun as Venezuelan Consul General in Trinidad, deplorable condition of English immigrants settled on the river Caura in Venezuela, prevention of a breach of neutrality laws by those in opposition to the Venezuelan government sailing in warships under Venezuelan colours, Dr Beauperthuy's method of treating leprosy, seizure of the Venezuelan warship Oriente for debt, seizure of the Trinidadian cutter Norsiel by a Venezuelan government steamer, complaint by the Venezuelan government regarding the prevention of the export of gunpowder from Trinidad, cost of assisting English emigrants returning to England from Venezuela via Trinidad, Venezuelan warships in the Port of Spain harbour);
• Home Office (appointment of Mr Sealy as gaoler);
• Land Board (land transfer system in force in Trinidad, squatter's settlement in the district of Montserrat, condition of 60 British emigrants to Venezuela, eviction of squatters on Crown Land, wording of an ordinance for the declaration of titles to land and to facilitate its transfer, Admiral Cochrane's request for the renewal of his deceased father's Pitch Lake lease, proposed grant for the survivors and representatives of the West India Regiment old soldiers located at Manzanilla in Trinidad in 1816 and 1818);
• Patent Office (acknowledges receipt of the Patent Laws of Trinidad);
• Royal College of Physicians (Dr Beauperthuy's method of treating leprosy, suggestion of sending Dr Gavin Milroy to assist Dr Bakerswell's inquiry [printed for Parliament May 1871]);
• General Post Office (monthly remittances on the money order account);
• The Colonial Company Limited (injurious effect of proposed works in the River Caroni on their estates);
• Royal Botanic Society of London (receipt of a catalogue of plants of the Botanical Garden of Trinidad).

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