Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the...

Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/351 - CO 295/358. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

• House of Commons (Venezuelan tariff, harbour improvements, railway enquiry commission);
• Crown Agents (Port of Spain harbour works, printed copies of proposed harbour works and iron jetty, H H Morton's wish to study music in Germany, Chaguaramas Bay scheme, investment on behalf of Blanche Blanc, W Brown's scholarship allowance, Pitch Lake case, collection of railway tickets, pins for maxim guns, sale of Crown Lands in Tobago, Attorney General v Eriche and Phillips, investment of colonial funds, loan for railway extension and Public Works, consulting and resident engineers for government railways, superannuation of school teachers, appointment of an architectural draughtsman, Inspector A D P Owen's family remittance, application of H R Marwood as maintenance engineer on railways, coupling system on railways, court trust funds account, appointment of director of works, screw tug for harbour works, Pitch Lake case, hopper barges for harbour works, gulf streamers depreciation fund);
• Council Office (ordinance respecting the extradition of fugitive criminals from French Guiana);
• Board of Trade (Immigration Criminal and Vicious Ordinance);
• Treasury (proceeds of sale of unclaimed wrecks, note issue, Mr Lumb's legal expenses);
• Foreign Office (appointment of Consul for Portugal, Mr Fitz Griffith's claim against Venezuela, extradition from French Guiana, quarantine in Spain, Panama Canal, fine on Geraldine at Puerto Rico);
• War Office (appointment of an infantry instructor, military lands and buildings, appointment of Lieutenant Cust as the governor's Aide de Camp);
• Lartigue Railway Construction Company (new railway proposals);
• Local Government Board (Pasteur's anti-rabies lymph);
• West India Committee (improvements in Caroni Valley, appointment of Cipriani to the Legislative Council);
• Trinidad Asphalte Co (Pitch Lake, weighing of asphalt);
• North Lancashire Reformatory (application of J Goode for appointment as Superintendent of Prisons);
• Kew Gardens (appointment of assistant superintendent of botanic gardens, sugar cane and banana diseases);
• British Consul General New York (appointment of J B Saunders as Harbour Master);
• Post Office (counterfeit postage stamps, mail service);
• Ordnance Survey (proposed survey);
• Charity Commission (secondary education);
• Royal College of Physicians (examination of Dr Lota).

Topics

Art, architecture and design

Charities

International

Railways

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Migration

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Maps and plans

Weapons

Children

Construction industries

Crown lands and estates

Disease

Food and drink

Americas

Banking

Communications