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

Letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on subjects concerning Trinidad.

Offices:

• Crown Agents (appointment of O Barrett to the Railway Department, payment of amount due to the French Post Office for 1881-2, engagement of foreman for water and sewerage works, Trinidad water works debentures purchased by British Guiana, endorsement of certain colonial debentures);
• Board of Trade (Merchant Shipping Ordinance);
• Foreign Office (export of arms to Venezuela, proposed cession of Patos Island to Venezuela, violation of British territory at Patos Island by Venezuela, Venezuelan differential duties against Trinidad, seizure of British vessels by Venezuela government at Maturin, imprisonment in Venezuela of crews of the British vessels Josephine and Henrietta);
• War Office (allowances to troops in lieu of customs exemptions);
• Colonial Office (railway extension to Princestown);
• Colonial Company (through traffic on Cipero railway line);
• General Post Office (recommends the appointment of J A Bulmer as Postmaster General);
• West India Committee (suggests enquiry into public expenditure, prevention or punishment of riotous conduct);
• Kew Gardens (progress reports on the botanic gardens, appointment of a botanic gardens propagator, supply of cacao plants to Fiji);
• Edinburgh University (reports on progress by colonial scholarship holders);
• London University (declarations by exhibitioners);
• Customs Office (Customs Law Amendment Ordinance);
• Glasgow Chamber of Commerce (memorial regarding grievances between Trinidad and Venezuela);

Individuals:

• George Anderson MP (mismanagement of financial affairs, Venezuelan import duties, printed petition for reform in the Public Works Department);
• Abraham Brooks, cocoa planter (petition complaining of land taken by the government);
• Dr Charles Gage Brown (unfitness for service of former medical officer S W Fitt);
• T H Chittenden (unfitness for service of his son Dr J F Chittenden);
• S W Fitt (resignation from office of district medical officer of South Naparima, applies for re-appointment to the medical service, applies for a gratuity);
• Rev William Ford, Canon (pension claim);
• Lady Frederica Freeling (health of Sir Sanford Freeling);
• Rev J Horsford (petition of the Burgesses of Port of Spain and San Fernando and others against the use of flogging as punishment);
• Rev J G Knight (application for appointment as inspector of schools);
• H Ludlow (memorandum on Ordinance No 10 of 1883 'Borough Constables Ordinance');
• Charles Mitchell, Protector of Immigrants (application for appointment of colonial secretary in the event of a vacancy);
• Dr Douglas Maclagan (suggests the resignation of J M Ross on a gratuity);
• J M Ross (resignation as Second Clerk in the Customs Department);
• Sir Rawson W Rawson (recommends the promotion of W W Hull);
• Dr Beaven Neave Rake (applies for appointment as district medical officer and superintendent of the Leper Asylum, pension eligibility enquiry);
• George Stringer (leave extension).

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