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 295/321 - CO 295/325. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government Departments):

• Crown Agents (appointment of J Paget, scholarships, appointment of instructors of the local force);
• Board of Trade (Literacy and Artistic Works Registration Ordinance, form of trade returns);
• Law Officers (extension of Colonial Attorney's Relief Act to Trinidad, Commissioner's powers in Tobago);
• Foreign Office (Venezuelan refugees in Trinidad, Venezuelan Consul, Venezuelan affairs, President of Venezuela Dr Rojas Paul, Venezuelan differential duties, political situation in Venezuela, governor's visit to Venezuela, treatment of Venezuelan gunboats in Trinidad waters, Venezuelan interference with the British sloop Cis, seizure of British boat Queen by a Venezuelan armed boat, new Venezuelan minister in Paris Dr Urbaneja);
• Home Office (use of tobacco by prisoners awaiting trial);
• War Office (guns for volunteer forces, withdrawal of troops, instructors to volunteer forces, appointment of Captain R S Marshall as Staff Officer and Adjutant of volunteers, drill instructors for local forces, transfer of War Department lands and buildings to the colony);
• Archbishop of Canterbury (Rev J Hayes as Bishop of Trinidad);
• Kew Gardens (report on Tobago tobacco sample, report on coffee sample);
• Post Office (Post Office Ordinance 1888, Savings Bank Ordinance);
• British Consul Caracas (case of James Phillips);
• West India Committee (railway extension, increase of police);
• The Provident Clerks' and General Guarantee Association Limited (forms for Charles Elms);

Individuals:

• Captain A W Baker, Trinidad Police (charges against him, his debt to the Police canteen fund);
• G F Bowen (abolition of his office, application for full pension);
• Sir John Coode (dock at Chaguaramas Bay);
• Ernest F R Copeman (infantry instructor application);
• Leonard Crane, Surveyor General (claims to a promotion, memorandum of service);
• Lady L H Dundonald (forwards a petition from people employed at La Brea in the pitch industry complaining of their condition);
• C P David (his scholarship, asks to be exempted from attending university);
• Mrs Evelyn Fitzgerald (her husband's claim to the collectorship of Customs in Port of Spain);
• O C Fitzgerald (claims to promotion);
• Archbishop Patrick Vincent Flood (suggestions for the training of teachers);
• Stephen H Getty, Chairman of the Royal Franchise Commission (commission's report, observations on agricultural contracts);
• Sir John Gorrie (objections to the Tobago Supreme Court Ordinance of 1889, staff under Real Property Ordinance, request full salary during leave);
• R J L Guppy (arrival on leave, requests pay);
• Mrs Catherine Humphrise [Humphries] ([Tobago] asks that the charges of embezzlement against her brother James Phillips be dropped, describes Phillips as 'a man of colour');
• M Harding (applies for vacant warden post);
• Harris Harragin, Warden of Arima (applies for post of warden at Naparima);
• W V M Koch (accepts medical appointment, applies for half salary, sends certificate);
• Sir Patrick Keenan (extensive observations on the educational system of Trinidad);
• Charles F Lumb, Justice (submits the Elementary Education Ordinance 1889 and summary rules of government schools with observations);
• J Lamont (amendment of the constitution);
• Andre Phillippe Lange (application for a medical appointment);
• Albert Marryat (Trinidad railway);
• Joseph Meston (charges against Sir J Gorrie);
• Rev A Pol (requests information on the position of Roman Catholic priests [in French]);
• Samuel A Quashey (requests answer to his petitions to the governor, his charges against Dr Seccombe);
• Sir William Robinson (import duties in Venezuela, costs against R Johnston in a right of way case at Oropouche, printed copy of Central Agricultural Board proceedings, commissioned officers to be attached to the local forces, visit to Venezuela, appointments under the Real Property Ordinance, increase of crime in Savana Grande, applies for an extension of leave, suggests Mayaro be declared a free port, unmarked shoal off the east coast of Trinidad);
• Samuel Smith (resolutions passed in an Presbyterian meeting concerning ecclesiastical grants, G F Bowen's retirement);
• G S Seccombe (answers to charges made by Samuel Quashey);
• L A A Salomon (his scholarship requirement to attend courses at London University);
• Hugh Watt (Venezuelan affairs, translated letter from Modesto Urbaneja)

Topics

Refugees

International

Litigation

Railways

Army

Trade and commerce

Religions

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Weapons

Debt

Food and drink

Crime

Americas

Communications

Education

Armed Forces (General Administration)