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

Letters from various offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/313 - CO 295/315. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (government departments and other organisations):

• House of Commons (Henrietta and Josephine cases, advice given by the chief justice to intending litigants);
• Admiralty (introduction of liquor on board British ships, proposed patent slip at Chaguaramas Bay);
• Crown Agents (articles produced from asphalt, C B Mitford's guarantee bond, Raymond Warner's proposal for a jetty, cost of working the railways, selection of a binder for the Printing Department);
• Council Office (Quarantine Ordinance);
• Board of Trade (Port of Spain Electric Lighting Ordinance, proposed patent slip at Chaguaramas Bay, publication of a report on Pitch Lake);
• Law Officers (cancellation of James O'Brien's appointment as a Justice of the Peace);
• Foreign Office (case of the SS Avon, violation of British territory at Patos Island, Henrietta and Josephine cases, activity of Venezuelan customs officers at Patos Island, smuggling from Trinidad to Venezuela, report of the fifth day's sitting of the Trinidad Trade and Taxes Commission, case of Richard Chambers arrested at La Guayra, Venezuelan differential duties, General Pulgar's movements, seizure of L'Envieuse, customs regulations, printed correspondence concerning the Venezuelan question, access of German representative to archives of British legation, manufacture of vegetable fibres in Yucatan, Joseph Jelleret's claim against the Venezuelan government);
• Home Office (movements of General Pulgar);
• War Office (ordnance to be offered to colony, stores for saluting battery, chief justice's remarks respecting the army);
• Kew Gardens (report on herbarium, fibre industries, Victoria Institute);
• General Post Office (Parcels Post Ordinance, mail service irregularities);
• West India Committee (Pitch Lake, administration of justice);
• United Limmer & Vorwohle Rock Asphalte Company Limited (Pitch Lake monopolies);
• General Council of Medical Education and Regulation (Medical Ordinance);
• Customs (goods imported for transit, refund of duty on damaged tobacco);
• Glasgow Chamber of Commerce (Venezuelan differential duties);
• Royal Irish Constabulary Office, Dublin (services of men appointed sergeant in Trinidad Police);

Individuals:

• Henry A Bovell (declines appointment of puisne judge);
• Brand & Christall (increased export duty on pitch);
• W E Cleaver (Mr Warner's Pitch Lake proposals);
• Dr Leonard Crane, Surgeon General (report on the Surgeon General's Department, return of the contract prices for various food supplies and their consumption between 1878 and 1886, system for checking on the distribution of diets, creation of new medical districts);
• Thomas Cochrane (Pitch Lake reserve);
• Thomas Cochrane and the Earl of Dundonald (memorandum by their grandfather concerning Pitch Lake) [memorandum not included in volume];
• William Collyer (declines appointment of puisne judge);
• W Cumming (Pitch Lake);
• Earl of Dundonald (Pitch Lake);
• Eckersley & Lloyd (proposal for purchase of the government railway);
• G Townsend Fenwick (Pitch Lake);
• Gregor Turnbull & Co (Pitch Lake, export duties);
• George Gabriel (request for reemployment);
• Henry A Greig (West India Committee's opinion on the Pitch Lake question);
• Mrs E Hart (her husbands application for transfer);
• Hunter Wiltshire & Co (cigars made from Trinidad grown tobacco);
• Dr F de Havilland Hall (asks that Dr Doyle be allowed to act as medical referee for the Roch Life Assurance Office);
• C B Hamilton, Receiver General (requests salary increase, asks for a seat in the Legislative Council, applies for appointment as colonial secretary of the Leeward Islands);
• R W Key (suggests that puisne judge and judge of the Petty Civil Court be two distinct appointments);
• Charles F Lumb (accepts appointment of second puisne judge of the Supreme Court);
• John McCarthy (report on Trinidad's industries, service record);
• Kenneth MacKenzie (The Electric Lighting Ordinance amendments and remarks);
• Meston & Co (Pitch Lake concession);
• Donald Nicoll (use of bitumen from Pitch Lake to insulate underground electric conductors, underground telephone and telegraph communication pamphlet);
• L G F Pyne (promotion application);
• Previté & Greig (Pitch Lake proposal observations, Pitch Lake concessions);
• John Previté (Pitch Lake);
• Sidney Woolf (cases of J C D'Azevedo and G Fyfe);
• Arthur Wortley (Pitch Lake licenses, protest against Pitch Lake monopoly, petition from pitch consumers in London);
• Raymond Warner (proposal to purchase government railways, report on proposed pier at Port of Spain, map showing position of proposed pier, deep sea jetty proposal);
• Hugh Watt & Co (suggests settlement of claims against the Venezuelan government).

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