Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from religious societies,...

CO 318/145

1839

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from religious societies, the House of Commons, Admiralty, Agents and Treasury on the subject of 'Negro Education'. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Trustees of the Mico Charity (audit of their accounts, passage for their Jamaica agent to Bahamas, thanks on giving up the rooms in the Colonial Office, intended ejection of Mr Johnson from the school premises at Nassau, balance of Parliamentary grant due, balance sheet and estimate, income and expenditure of the charity, further respecting Mr Johnson's ejection from the school at Nassau, assistance required from Parliamentary grant, thanks for communication, report on schools in Tobago, acknowledges agent's letter concerning their accounts, seeks interview, estimate for 1839, concerning audit of accounts, requests continuance of aid from the Manzanillo Fund, survey of their school buildings, expenditure for 1836, schools in Antigua and Dominica, applies for part of the Manzanillo Fund in aid of their other schools);
• Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (amount required from Parliamentary grant);
• Church Missionary Society (aid required from Parliamentary grant, the sum given them will be appropriated to salaries of teachers in Jamaica and Trinidad, requests copy of letter of 6 October, appropriation of grant of £2,000 on transfer of school at Mahaica to the Bishop of Barbados);
• Wesleyan Missionary Society (aid required from Parliamentary grant, statement of proposed expenditure of Parliamentary grant, corrects error in the preceding letter, in respect of Dr Mellad's school in Jamaica states nothing is known of him);
• Moravian Missionary Society (aid required from Parliamentary grant, cause of delay in sending statement of amount of aid required, plan for appropriation of the Parliamentary grant);
• Baptist Missionary Society (thanks for agreeing to application respecting the schools erected by Reverend Thomas Burchell at Jamaica, amount paid to them from the Parliamentary grant, their expenses are so great that they are unable to build any more schools, they are not prepared to ask for aid for teachers);
• Ladies Negro Education Society (aid required from the Parliamentary grant, mode of apportioning the grant, thanks for £700);
• Scottish Missionary Society (requests £1,500 for school houses etc, proposed expenditure, asks if they may devote their share to building teachers' houses instead of schools);
• House of Commons (addresses requiring a copy of C J La Trobe's report on British Guiana and Trinidad and a return of money allocated to the Mico Charity);
• Admiralty (no direct communication between Jamaica and Nassau);
• Agents (audit of Mico Charity accounts);
• Treasury (has authorised issue of the various grants, £800 will be issued to the Scottish Missionary Society);

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