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:

• Admiralty (HMS Cherub stationed at Trinidad);
• Crown Agents (redemption of public buildings and tramroad debentures, requisition of surgical instruments, Engineer Charles Hutton and the construction of a railway, hiring of an engineer and assistant engineer to conduct a survey of the proposed railway from Port of Spain to Arima, instructions for Trinidad railway engineer);
• Council Office (operation of the Vaccination Act 1867);
• Board of Trade (no objection to ordinance for the registration of droghers and sailors);
• India Office (alleged cure for leprosy discovered by Dr Bhou Dajee of Bombay);
• Treasury (security required from the receiver general, proposed Telegraph Ordinance, allowance of interest on judicial deposits, time period for receiving Spanish silver coins, construction of telegraphs by the West India and Panama Telegraph Company, Captain Newland's pension, Dr Mitchell's pension);
• Foreign Office (reimbursement for passages of emigrants to Venezuela, Venezuelan government's protests against Francisco Padron, fraudulent Venezuelan emigration scheme case, interference of trade between Trinidad and Venezuela by Antonio Guzmán Blanco's government, capture of British schooner Elena by the Venezuelan opposition party, pamphlet on Dr Beauperthuy's leprosy treatment [in French], seizure of English sloop Unison by Venezuelan war vessel, rejection of a proposal to station a warship in the Gulf of Paria, records of the death and burial of E Roche [in French], complaint of Venezuelan government to Trinidad's refusal to allow the export gunpowder, contending parties in Venezuela, state of affairs in Ciudad Bolivar, conversion of the British steamer John Cumming into a Venezuelan warship, Pierre Soria's claim for compensation for losses made in Venezuela, Maria de Lenard's request for Edwards Roche's death certificate);
• War Office (hand over of Sea Fort Battery to the Trinidad government);
• Land Board (regulations for the sale and lease of Crown Lands for exploring for pitch, oil, petroleum, and minerals; scheme for the canalisation of the River Caroni, construction of a railway between Port of Spain and Arima);
• West India and Panama Telegraph Company (Telegraph Ordinance);
• Royal College of Physicians (observations on whether leprosy could be transferred by vaccination);
• United Presbyterian Mission House, Edinburgh (policy of concurrent endowment);
• University of London (award of the Gilchrist Scholarship to George De Mongiraud Knox);

Individuals:

• Dr R H Bakewell, Medical Officer of Health (consequences of the non-prosecution of Felix O'Connor for an assault on editor of the Star of the West Indies William Rees Gawthron, medical attendance on certain cases of leprosy, leave of absence extension request, Dr Beauperthuy's method of treating leprosy, request to exchange with a medical officer in another colony, departure for Trinidad, payment of half-salary to his wife while he is in transit);
• B C Brochie [?] (appointment of a master to teach chemistry);
• Clement Bishop (passage to Trinidad for himself and potential wife, signing of employment agreement);
• W Caird, Royal College Second Master (three month leave extension request, passage to Trinidad);
• W J Curtis (proposed railway);
• Thomas Cuddeford, Hospital House Surgeon (passage to England for health purposes, extension of leave request);
• James John Day (acceptance of appointment as master of the Queen's Royal College, enquiry regarding the existence of a laboratory, passage, salary);
• John Glanville (leave of absence extension request);
• C W Lovesy (appointment as stipendiary justice of the Western District of the County of St George, departure for Trinidad, execution of his bond, salary advance);
• Dr Galvin Milroy (passage to Trinidad, salary advance);
• Charles Mitchell (colonial service application, departure for Trinidad);
• John Murray (application for the third mastership of the Royal College of Trinidad);
• Charles Messeroy (accepts the appointment of assistant in the Public Works Department, his salary);
• Captain C F Newland, stipendiary magistrate (leave of absence extension request, superannuation calculation);
• John Needham (leave of absence extension request);
• J B Payne (proposal to enter into a contract to construct the railway);
• W John Wilkinson (requests the address of Inspector General of Police Captain Bush).

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