Correspondence received from Offices (Government departments and other organisations)...

Correspondence received from Offices (Government departments and other organisations) and Individuals on subjects concerning Trinidad during 1909. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Home Office (C W Meaden's pension, prison rules and regulations, Safety of Boilers Ordinance, Prison Regulations 1908);
• India Office (Emigration Agency at Calcutta, new site for the Emigration Agency, Indian labourers for Dutch Guiana, charges of Mr Marsden against Mr Bolton, charges against Mr Bolton by Mr Marsden);
• Law Officers (Cipero tramway);
• Houses of Parliament (cost of building improvements, cost of Indian labour, indentured labourers, wages per day to labourers on sugar estates, ill-treatment of immigrants, Indian immigrants and expenses of hospital treatment, taxes, expenses of migrants from the Mitlah, legal advisers of the Colonial Government, Borough Council of the Port of Spain);
• Board of Trade (official receiver under Bankruptcy Ordinance 1907, report on telegraphic communication between Venezuela and Trinidad by the Cable Committee);
• Treasury (British silver coins as unlimited legal tender).

Miscellaneous:

• Lodge Muirhead Wireless and General Telegraphy Syndicate Limited (wireless telegraphy);
• Law Society (results of final examination);
• CDC (memorandum 483 R [correspondence not in this volume]);
• Trinidad Shipping and Trading Company (Venezuelan surtax);
• Colonial Office (appointment of Sir G R Le Hunte as Governor, draft lease to Trinidad Petroleum Company, oil concession, Trinidad Petroleum Company Lease, Municipal Council at the Port of Spain);
• New Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company (extension of concession);
• Trinidad Petroleum Company (draft lease);
• Audit Office (proposed new form of general warrant);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (training of Sub Inspectors of Police);
• New Colonial Company Limited (Cipero tramroad);
• General Post Office (draft Telephone Ordinance, Trinidad Consolidated Telegrams Ordinance);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (Venezuelan surtax);
• West India Committee (Venezuelan 30% surtax);
• Surgeon Superintendent Kenny (voyage of the Mitlah);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (exchanges of agricultural publications between India and the colonies);
• Trinidad Petroleum Company Limited (lease to company);
• Tennants Estates Limited (Cipero tramroad);
• British Cotton Growing Association (cotton growing in Tobago, cotton cultivation).

Individuals:

• Archibald Brothers (indebtedness of J T Rousseau);
• Ashurst Morris and Crisp (Pitch Lake concession, lease to Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company);
• T R Black (his claim to a gratuity);
• W F Bolton (charges by Mr Marsden);
• Messrs Broad and Company (Trinidad Oil Exploration Syndicate);
• Joseph Bisphan (petition to the King praying for a pension and for money alleged to be due to him by the Government of Tobago);
• A G Bell (employment in the Executive Branch of the Colonial Service, Government Director of Dock Company);
• Major H E J Blake (increments to salaries of constabulary officers);
• Professor J Cadman (Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company v Messrs Keys, lease to Trinidad Petroleum Company, Mines Regulations Ordinance, regulations under Mines, Borings and Quarries Ordinance, safety of Boilers Ordinance, export duty on oil);
• Dr H L Clare (relations with the Medical Department, newspaper attacks on him);
• E N Dillon (complains of his dismissal from the post of Messenger at the Treasury);
• P Durrant (sale of property);
• Dr E A G Doyle (promotion to Tacarigua District, return before expiration of leave);
• G R Esslemont (estate of late William Johnson Brown).

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Europe and Russia

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Ireland

Debt

Food and drink

Americas

Communications

Farming

Mining and quarrying

Prisons