Letters from various miscellaneous offices (departments and organisations) and individuals...

Letters from various miscellaneous offices (departments and organisations) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/336 - CO 295/340. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Miscellaneous Offices:

• The Lartigue Railway Construction Co (railway to Mayaro, statements of N Lubbock, cost and working expenses of proposed railways, construction of railways);
• British and West Indian Alliance (administration of justice: report by a commission on 'the grounds of West Indian grievances and the cases that call for the defence of civil rights', suppression of documents concerning the railway extension, Public Works and Crown Agents);
• Kew Gardens (herbarium of botanical gardens, J H Hart's book on 'Cacoa' [cocoa], issue of bulletin on nutmeg cultivation);
• Inland Revenue (Henry Tate considered best candidate for post of assistant government analyst);
• West India Committee (financial position, loan, Caroni River improvement);
• Judicial Enquiry Commission (memoranda from Tobago, Captain Fortescue 's complaint);
• Post Office (method of execution for money order conventions);
• Discharged soldiers of the West India Regiment (petition for civil employment signed by Jack Richards [his mark], George Warner, J Isaacs, Fortune Christopher, Francis Joseph, Henry Weeks, and John Brown);
• Local Government Board (quarantine);
• Bedford Grammar School (statement of course of study on commercial side [not included in volume]);
• Department of Science and Art (prospectus of institutions at which scholarship holders might study);
• London Chamber of Commerce (commercial education scheme);
• Royal Mail and Steam Packet Company (complains of the quarantine on the Eden);
• West India & Panama Telegraph Company (continuation of subsidy, reduction of telegraph subsidy).

Individuals:

• R B Anderson (administration of justice);
• Stanley J Attenborough (failure of J D Tellier to serve a writ on G L Garcia);
• H Anderson (Judicial Commission appointment objections);
• W Allison (poor quality of Port of Spain water supply);
• Burgoyne, Watts & Co (R B Anderson's action against Sir J Gorrie);
• Miss M A Butler (requests assistance for the children of the late Registrar of the Courts C H Phillips);
• Henry E G Bulwer (grant to the widow of the late Charles Warner, letter from widowed Ellen B Warner);
• George F Bushe (application for appointment as Receiver General);
• Sir F Napier Broome (vacant appointments);
• Clowes Bayley (memorial against Belmont Tramways Ordinance);
• Rev J Browne (retirement on a pension, medical exam);
• D P Barton MP (case of deceased Police Sergeant Frazer);
• Dr J A Benson (Rev J Browne's health);
• Dr S Leonard Crane (application for appointment in Egypt, printed memorandum of service);
• John Cook, Justice (decision on his case, issue of salary, charges against him);
• John Donaldson (extension of leave on account of detention in quarantine);
• Mrs De Coteau, widow of Charles De Coteau (loan by B Lerouse to the Spanish government in 1797);
• Most Rev Patrick Vincent Flood (Justice John Cook);
• August Faber & Co (asphalt from Crown Lands for Gaerwen);
• Mrs Evelyn Fitzgerald (claims of her husband to appointment as acting receiver general);
• C A R Farrell (his scholarship);
• William G Gordon (asphalt shipped in the Cambalu);
• M Graham Gorrie (death of Sir J Gorrie, salary due to the Sir J Gorrie);
• Daniel Gorrie (salary due to the Sir J Gorrie);
• J H Gray (death of Police Sergeant J Frazer);
• W B Green (failure of water supply);
• George Lewis Garcia (appointment as attorney general, legacy to children of W W Douglas);
• John Arthur Harragin, Magistrate (application for assistant magistracy of Port of Spain);
• W T Helliwell (estate of Lieutenant William Cooke);
• C B Hamilton, Receiver General (extension of leave, Spirits and Spirits Compound Ordinance);
• John H Hart (application for directorship of Mauritius Botanic Department);
• L G Hay (charges against him);
• W H Jones (his son's application for appointment as judge);
• Cyril Lloyd Jones (application for puisne judgeship);
• Ms Susannah Jérémie of Basseterre St Lucia (her claim to the cocoa plantation of Sua Voluntas);
• Kühner, Henderson & Co (Chaguaramas Harbour scheme);
• N Lubbock (railway extension, negotiations with the US);
• Charles F Lumb (promotion or transfer to another colony, case of Anderson v Gorrie and others);
• Rev John Lewis (promotion of W L Lewis);
• Arthur Samuel Milner (application for medical appointment with testimonials);
• Joseph Meston (harbour works);
• Montgomerie & Flemings (trusteeship for the children of the deceased Rev H Douglas);
• Rev C O'Hanlon (pension for services as Roman Catholic parish priest);
• Previté & Co (Pitch Lake, digging of asphalt on Crown Lands, printed map of Pitch Lake showing where digging had taken place, Crown Land Protection Ordinance, printed plan by Robert Kernahan of La Brea village showing excavations of pitch on Crown Lands, seizure in New York of a shipment of asphalt in the Ballard, declarations affirming that asphalt from Crown Lands was exported on the Gaewen, asphalt export restriction, pitch digging);
• C H Phillips (application for appointment);
• William Fillingham Parr (Sir J Gorrie's reputation during the early part of his career);
• A C Ross (application for appointment as receiver general); Frederick Sanguinetti (application for appointment as assistant secretary to the Judicial Commission);
• Siegert & Sons (Chaguaramas Harbour works);
• Henry Tate (appointment as assistant government analyst);
• J R Taylor (water supply);
• Caleb Vaughan (claim to pension);
• Raymond Warner (fortifications, Chaguaramas Bay, railway rolling stock);
• Henry F Wilson (accepts secretaryship Of Judicial Commission, salary enquiry);
• J H Whieldon (electric lighting in Port of Spain);
• Dr J T Woodyatt (accepts appointment as supernumerary surgeon);
• Aucher Warner (application for appointment as solicitor general).

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