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

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

Offices:

• Crown Agents (public buildings and tramroad debentures, conveyance of an iron tank, proposed Government House, requisition for public clothing, copy of Mr Mesgher's plan of Government House, requisition for chemicals, method to raise loan for railway, Trinidad Railway Ordinance, need for paddle steamer, galvanic apparatus, loss of the Morning Star and ruin of terracotta cargo, stores for Royal Gaol, Receiver General Hoare's securities, proposal to light Port of Spain with gas, list of tenders for iron bridges, opposition to proposed railway route, Dr Bakewell's salary, amount of contract for new steam tug, supply of two iron bell buoys, proposed extension of San Fernando wharf, proposed railway from Port of Spain to Arima, appointment of three foremen [mason, bricklayer, and carpenter], Receiver General Pyne's sureties, Miss Nightingale's notes on nursing [not included in volume], letter of introduction for Mr Deighton);
• Treasury (withdrawal of certain coins from circulation);
• Foreign Office (proceedings of schooner Columbian, claims on Venezuela by Pierre Soria and E Bridgewater, abandonment of proposal for French convict station at the Isle des Saintes, seizure of the Violet for alleged breach of law, seizure of the Providencia of Trinidad by a Venezuelan warships);
• Home Office (orders to admit Mr Longden to view certain prisons);
• War Office (transfer of Sea Fort to the Colonial Government);
• Land Board (observations of the report of the Sub Intendant of Crown Lands for 1871, proposed purchase of the Tranquillite Estate, importation of labour from other West Indian islands for the construction of the railway);
• Freemen of Trinidad under Grand Lodge of Scotland (address to the Prince of Wales);
• Royal College of Physicians (memorial of Trinidad Medical Board regarding diplomas, supply of vaccine lymph).

Individuals:

• Dr R H Bakewell, Health Officer of Shipping (reports his arrival, vaccine lymph, claim for effecting the Ordinance for the prevention of small pox, allowance arrears due to him, claim for rent of temporary office);
• William Bridge (leave extension request);
• Barllett & Co (packets for transmission);
• W J Curtis (requests employment in connection with the railway, objections to a certain railway scheme);
• Thomas Cuddeford (resignation as surgeon of hospital, arrears of pay, appointment away from the tropics);
• Archbishop of Canterbury (draft warrant and consent for the alterations of limits of the Barbados dioceses);
• W Day (free passage for his son Stewart to be an assistant to his brother James who is a master in Queen's Royal College);
• H Deighton (reports acceptance of appointment in Barbados, requests information on primary schools);
• S Doyon (issue of the way he carried out his duties as Examiner of Animals [partially in French]);
• Frederick Ralph Hart (applies for various positions [with photograph]);
• J P Hoare (leave extension request);
• Edward Harris (applies for appointment as stipendiary magistrate);
• J R Longden (railway routes, Mr Warner's conduct in the Bronte Estate assault case, Mr Leotand's suspension, Mr Day's appointment as chemistry teacher at the Royal College, proposal to light Port of Spain with gas, appointment of a head nurse, prison reform, commutation of death sentences, leave extension request, suggests free passage for 500 labourers to work on the railway, railway loan);
• Dr Gavin Milroy (replies by medical men to question about leprosy);
• Charles Mitchell (withdraws application for Civil Service appointment, asks for correspondence respecting the treatment of immigrants in British Guiana);
• Robert Mitchell (leave extension request, withdrawal of leave extension request);
• A G Newton (Port of Spain gas works);
• C F Newland, Stipendiary Magistrate (requests to retire on a pension);
• Henry Prestor, Botanist (arrival on leave of absence, leave extension request, salary);
• M Pasco, unofficial member of the Legislative Council (protest against government purchase of the Tranquillite Estate, sketch of the estate);
• John Stuckey (accepts appointment as house surgeon in hospital at Port of Spain, announces departure);
• Reverend A Sardi (leave extension request, requests for the grant of a half-salary to a coadjutor);
• R Hill Stewart, Harbour Master (arrival on leave of absence, leave extension request);
• Antonio Tomasich (document for verification of a signature);
• J H Trollope, Inspector of Immigrants (leave extension request, return to his duty);
• J Wallis (application for appointment as magistrate of San Fernando).

Topics

Shipping

Clothing

International

Litigation

Labour

Public disorder

Railways

Army

Nursing

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Crown lands and estates

Disease

Navy

Americas

Banking

Education

Armed Forces (General Administration)