Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which...

Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/301 - CO 295/303. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government Departments):

• House of Commons (Proposed concession of Patos Island to Venezuela);
• Admiralty (response to riots during Carnival);
• Crown Agents (examination of San Fernando water supply, court fee stamps, conversion of three percent consols [government securities], issue of new debenture bonds);
• Board of Trade (Police Court's constitution and findings concerning the loss of the Bengeo);
• Treasury (conversion of stock in savings banks);
• Foreign Office (negotiations with Venezuela, Venezuelan differential duties, seizure of Josephine, Henrietta and Springbird by Venezuela, smuggling into Venezuela from Trinidad, proposed concession of Patos Island to Venezuela, depression in the sugar trade, Venezuelan revolutionary General Venancio Pulgar, claims of Joseph Jellert, F R Hart and others against the Venezuelan Government, agreement with Venezuela);
• Home Office (naturalization of Pedro Luis de Montbrun);
• War Office (appointment of Captain H Jackson as Governor's Aide-de-Camp);
• Oxford Vice Chancellor (examination of scholarship holders);
• Cambridge Vice Chancellor (examination of scholarship holders);
• Royal College Surgeons (value of certain work done by the Trinidad government analyst);
• London University (examination of scholarship holders);
• West India Committee (unsatisfactory nature of law regarding the prevention or punishment of disorderly conduct, protest against loan of public money for the gulf stream service, public expenditure);
• Edinburgh University (examination of scholarship holders);
• Kew Gardens (Trinidad Botanical Gardens Report 1881-1882);

Individuals:

• George Anderson MP (administration of Pitch Lake);
• J Scott Bushe, Colonial Secretary (complains of his displacement in the administration of the government);
• George Baden-Powell (memorandum on Venezuelan customs duties);
• Vicomte H de Lapeyrouse (complaint of non-appointment as surveyor general);
• Gaston de Labastide (extension of leave request or acceptance of resignation);
• Pedro Luis de Montbrun (accepts medical appointment, naturalization);
• Rev W Ford (application for a gratuity);
• Sir Sanford Freeling (his health, extension of leave request, resignation);
• J Fanning (smuggling between Trinidad and Venezuela);
• Gregor Turnbull & Co (steam service in the Gulf of Paria);
• Robert John Lechmere Guppy, head of Education (applies for promotion or increase of salary);
• W W Hull, Governor's Private Secretary (payment of salary while on leave);
• David B Horsford, Marshal (salary and emoluments);
• Rev T L Hill (death of J W B Hill of the Public Works Department);
• Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock (expresses thanks for his appointment as governor, Police superannuation fund);
• Lovelace Hart (applies for transfer);
• Captain H Jackson, RA (applies to accompany Governor Havelock to Trinidad as his Aide-de-Camp);
• W Llewellyn Lewis (his fitness for tropical service);
• Louis Wharton (scholarship money);
• Joseph Henry Zepero (medical officer application).

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