Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from 'offices' (Government...

CO 318/143

1839

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) relating to the West Indies. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Admiralty (asks for names of the chief justices who are to be appointed judges of Vice Admiralty Courts);
• Commander in Chief (with reference to return of barrack accommodation calls attention to Barbados, required barrack accommodation, number of 'black' troops to be kept up, asks that civil governors be instructed not to interfere with the commander of the troops in the periodical changes of their quarters, the frequent changes of troops);
• Privy Council Office (amends Order in Council of September 1838 relating to fees on marriages, opinion of law officers on expediency of issuing orders approving currency proclamations, immigration ordinance Trinidad);
• Foreign Office (measures to be adopted for the prevention of the escape of fugitive slaves, amount of salary deemed sufficient for consular agents at Porto Rico, despatch from consul at Haiti relating to treaty of commerce, encloses Portuguese slave trade indemnity bill, British 'negroes' detained in slavery at Rio de Janeiro, letters to the Admiralty for more effectual suppression of the Portuguese slave trade, political state of Cuba, emancipated slaves kidnapped from Sierra Leone and again sold into slavery, brief issued by the pope enjoining Roman Catholics to abstain from slave trading);
• Law officers (Colonial Banking Company is precluded from establishing a branch at Havana);
• Board of Ordnance (return of barrack accommodation);
• Treasury (abstract of sanitary reports, letter to Board of Ordnance respecting erection of racket and fives courts);
• Compensation Commissioners (certificates and lists of claims [covering letters only], appointment of Mr Amyot to succeed Mr Stephenson as one of the salaried members of the Board, Mr Stephenson's thanks for withdrawal of Lord Glenelg's letter, progress of the commission and letter to Treasury relating to remuneration to commissioners);
• Poor Law Commissioners (suggestions for a poor law in the West Indies);
• Colonial Bank (relating to establishment of a branch bank at Cuba, opinion of the law officers on their charter);
• Central Negro Emancipation Committee (solicits support of Lord Normanby, nomination of three gentlemen to examine colonial laws, remarks on state of things, calls attention to previous letter);
• Slave Registry Office (seeks funds [four letters]);
• West India Association, Glasgow (resolution passed respecting employment of 'hill coolies' [indentured Indian labour])
• West India Association, Liverpool (resolution passed by them);
• Papers on the discontinuance of the Slave Registry Office.

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International

Labour

Trade and commerce

Migration

Treaties and alliances

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Population

Race relations

Navy

Poverty

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Africa