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

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from Government offices (departments), other organisations, and individuals relating to the West Indies. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: [1871] Offices:

• House of Commons (question over promised consolidation of several small island commands under general governorships; appropriation of taxes for ecclesiastical purposes and establishment of religious equality);
• Admiralty (reference to visits of ships to West Indies, under order of vice-admiral in command on the North American station);
• Treasury (pension application of Mr Sawkins; payments from R J Cust for commissions on sales and fees; letter from West Indian Encumbered Estates Commissioners applying for West Indian Encumbered Estates Act to be included in the schedule of the Expiring Laws Continuance Act; letter from senior member of West Indian Encumbered Estates Commission relating to cessation of the court);
• Foreign Office (extract from Journal Officiel announcing appointments of governors of Martinique and of the French establishments in India; extract from Journal Officiel announcing that Pointe à Pitre has been destroyed by fire; despatch from minister at Copenhagen referring to proposal to exempt islands of St Thomas and St Johns from contributions to the state in consequence of the recent hurricane);
• West Indian Encumbered Estates Commission (schedules of salaries; account of incidental expenses of the commission; statements of the commissioners on sales and of the fees on proceedings; payments made for commissions and fees; expresses regret that West Indian Encumbered Estates Act is not included in the schedule of the Expiring Laws Continuance Act; maintenance of the commission; urgent request for commission to be continued for three years; reference to sums apportioned on different islands);
• General Post Office (detention of mail packet called Elle; timetable of the West India Mail Packet Service for 1872 [not in item]);
• West India Committee (work of the West Indian Encumbered Estates Commission).

• Charles Creed (asks if there is any stock standing in the name of Thomas Creed as he is next of kin);
• Captain Martin Doorly (about to retire from Army and requests employment in West Indies);
• Henry [surname illegible], Oriental Club (question of continuing the West Indian Encumbered Estates Acts);
• Major Quinn (application for governorship of St Thomas).

• Agent (proposed arrangement respecting interest and sinking funds of guaranteed loans);
• Treasury (continuance of West Indian Encumbered Estates Commission; sinking funds of guaranteed loans; account of incidental expenses of the commission; no statement received for commissions on sales and fees for half-year ending 30 June 1871);
• West Indian Encumbered Estates Commission (schedules of salaries; account of incidental expenses of the commission; continuance of commission; effects of closing the commission courts; continuance of the commission; contribution towards the cost of the commission court; memorandum on the commission court; statement of amount received by the commissioners for commissions and fees on proceedings;
• University of London (Gilchrist scholarship- asks if there are to be any examination papers from Jamaica);
• General Post Office (amended timetable of the West India Mail Packet Service for 1872).

• Captain Archer (asks for aid towards publication of a book on monumental inscriptions of the West Indies);
• John Craig (asks for information about medical appointment in the West Indies);
• R H Lloyd (solicits medical appointment);
• T M Lees (medical vacancies in West Indies);
• Gavin Milroy (prolongation of his stay in the West Indies; statement of sums received by him from Crown Agents and of expenses incurred by him; contagiousness or otherwise of leprosy; statement of his expenses and remuneration due to him; report of the recent mission to the West Indies on Leprosy and Yaws [manuscript; 224 folios, printed for Parliament, March 1873]).

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