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

CO 318/166

1846

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

• House of Commons (requires various documents: Orders in Council and other papers relating to contracts of employment, copies of papers relating to proposed immigration loan, copies of immigration rules and other papers, papers relating to the labouring population, regulations or instructions relating to sale of Crown lands, Orders in Council and other papers respecting the supply of labour [six items]);
• Privy Council Office (sends two Orders in Council concerning letters patent granted to John Constable for improvements in the manufacture of sugar etc);
• Board of Trade (Mr John Innes' proposed company for the cultivation and manufacture of sugar, reports 'suspicious' Spanish vessel being fitted out at London);
• Foreign Office (instructions to British commissioners at Havana concerning liberated Africans should come from the Colonial Office, departure of Lieutenant McClure and assumption of duties by the commissioners, correspondence between Mr Turnbull and Mr Mulholland of the United States on results of slave emancipation, request from Danish minister for details of laws in force for the prohibition of the slave trade in British colonies [in English and French], disposal of slaves liberated at Loanda [two items], letter from the British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society seeking assistance in recovering the freedom of certain British subjects enslaved in foreign colonies, emigration from the Azores [with report on Portuguese law relating to emigration);
• Treasury (approves proposed arrangements relating to Africans liberated at Havana, compensation for registrar of slaves Thomas Amyot for abolition of office, disposal and maintenance of 'helpless negroes' from Rio, maintenance of Africans at Loanda prior to embarkation for the West Indies, disembarkation of Spanish slaves at Loanda, further on Mr Amyot's claim, contract with Royal Mail Steam Packet Company [with printed copy of agreement showing details of routes and fares], leave of absence for stipendiary magistrates [with printed circular on the subject], sees no reason for altering decision on Mr Amyot's retiring allowance);
• West India Committee (printed copies of various correspondence on the subject of labour migration [originals in CO 318/169]);
• Charles Cave, Demerara Railway Company (objections to colonial railway regulations);
• West India Association, Glasgow (seeks removal of all restrictions to labour migration [two items]);
• West India Association, Dublin (importation of sugar and molasses);
• Moravian Missionary Society (thanks for introduction to governors);
• Commissioners at Havana (their assumption of the duties of the superintendent of liberated slaves and receipt of the archives from Lieutenant McClure, sale of the Romney to the Spanish authorities and current duties of the superintendency [with list of despatches to the superintendent delivered to the commissioners], arrangements made for the transfer of 14 male and 2 female emancipated slaves to Jamaica bringing the total to 120 men, 64 women and 81 children, additional 12 men and one woman sent to Jamaica with list of their names, numbers and vessels from which taken, despatch of additional nine men, nine women, and two children to Jamaica ['they appeared a very desirable class of emigrants and all expressed themselves much contented with the change in their condition'], acknowledge receipt of instructions relating to the duties of the superintendency, further on the duties of the superintendency, removal of 14 men and three women to Jamaica, their case for additional pay, further on their pay, further reports of despatch of emancipated slaves to Jamaica [7 items]).

• Thomas Amyot (further on his retiring allowance [3 items];
• W D Bruce (draws attention to defective state of parochial registers);
• Mr Braud, agent for the removal of emancipated Africans at Loanda (acknowledges receipt of instructions for defraying expenses, states that no liberated Africans have been placed at British disposal during the quarters ended 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December 1846 [4 items]);
• Lieutenant Colonel Chads (seeks employment);
• John Constable (seeks information on patents granted to him);
• W J Curtis (requests copy of circular on railways);
• George Fasset (seeks information about his uncle);
• A G Fyfe, stipendiary magistrate at Jamaica (forwards printed copy of prospectus for a central sugar factory and seeks interview, forwards memorial from proprietors and merchants concerning a central sugar factory with details of royal charter requested and copy of a pamphlet entitled 'Suggestions for separating the culture of sugar from the process of manufacture with a plan for establishing a central sugar factory at Annotto Bay, Jamaica', further on establishing of central factory);
• James Adam Gordon (suggestions for improving the condition of the West Indies [3 items];
• Thomas Hull (enquiry about property of J Dewhurst [2 items]);
• H Henry (suggestion that stipendiary magistrates and police officers should be recruited from the Irish Constabulary);
• Joseph Hume (seeks interview to discuss introduction of African labourers to West Indies);
• John Innes (suggests formation of joint stock companies to carry on sugar cultivation and forwards details of a proposed charter [3 items]);
• John Lancaster (seeks address of his uncle);
• James Pitcairn Nice (suggestions for better management of sugar plantations);
• John Osborn (remarks on emigration, suggestions relating to labour supply);
• John Parkin (forwards copies of his pamphlets on 'An inquiry into the remote cause of epidemic diseases', 'The efficacy of carbonic acid gas in the diseases of the tropical climates', and 'Suggestions for the better and more speedy colonization of the West Indies' [2 items];
• Robinson & Girvin (duties on foreign beef and pork transhipped from the UK);
• C Richardson (recommends Mr Bagot for appointment as agent general of emigration for the African coast);
• John Vernon (account of the island of Sombrero and its guano deposits);
• R B Walton (seeks employment);
• James Window (labour supply [2 items]);
• Colonial Office (various memoranda, printed papers on the subject of church patronage, and circulars concerning railway communication, promotion of immigration of labourers into the West Indian colonies, the incorporation of banking companies, the prosecution in one colony of crimes committed in another [2 circulars], emigration of Africans, evils experienced in West Indian colonies but mainly in Mauritius from the 'unsteady habits' of certain immigrants, forwarding blank forms for magistrates' half-yearly returns, and the future of stipendiary magistrates).

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