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

CO 318/257

1869

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

• Foreign Office (proposal submitted to House of Representatives to extend the protection of the United States to Hayti [Haiti] and San Domingo; resolution submitted to American House of Representatives proposing that the Dominican Republic should be admitted, under certain conditions, as a territory of the United States; International South Transatlantic Telegraph Company requests permission for cable in West Indian and other colonial possessions of Great Britain; note from Count Frÿs; note from Spanish minister in reference to proclamation of the governor of Bermuda about the Foreign Enlistment Act);
• West Indian Incumbered Estates Commission (schedules and payments of salaries; statements of commissions on sales and of the fees on proceedings; estimate on amount required to defray expenses of commission for year ending 31 March 1870; accounts of contingent expenses of commission [not in item]; payment to paymaster general for commission and fees received by the commissioners; workings of the commission; estimate on amount required to defray expenses of commission for year ending 31 March 1871; extensive observations from commissioners on reports from eight West Indian colonies on the West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts);
• Gilchrist Educational Trust (proposal to institute a scholarship of £100 per annum for three years due to desire to extend operation of the trust to the British West Indies);
• India Office (propagation of teak in the West Indies and British Guiana);
• Edmund Sturge, Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (advantages of extension of system of post office savings banks to the West Indies);
• West India & Panama Telegraph Company (prospectus, plan, and articles of association of the company, includes printed map of telegraph routes, company lines, and proposed lines);
• General Post Office (reference to Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society- Edmund Sturge's suggestion of post office savings banks; exchange of mails between United Kingdom and the four principal post offices in the West Indies at Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Demerara; timetable of mail packet service);
• Merchants, Planters, and others (memorial regarding excessive rates of postage);
• Baptist Mission House (memorial signed by secretaries of missionary societies on rates of postage- printed for Parliament, HC 155 of 1872);
• Board of Trade (Royal Mail Steam Packet Company not to be removed from St Thomas; sanitary conditions of harbour; grant to the International Ocean Telegraph Company of a concession to establish telegraphic communication between St Croix and St Thomas [English translation of document]);
• Treasury (Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, St Thomas; unhealthiness of St Thomas harbour; payments received from West Indian Incumbered Estates Commission; reference to West Indian Incumbered Estates Commission; West India & Panama Telegraph Company requests assistance from Admiralty for soundings for submarine cables; acknowledges receipt of letter).

• E Leaky (telegraphic communication);
• Edmund Sturge (extension of post office savings banks to West Indies).

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Topics

Government finances

International

Litigation

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Maps and plans

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Navy

Americas

Communications

Education

Armed Forces (General Administration)