Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices: Admiralty (act for providing and maintaining a steamship; troops from Jamaica; 'disturbances' in Honduras - 'Indians'; appointment of Philip E Hawkin as Colonial Secretary of British Honduras; account of expenses incurred through entertainment on board the ship Doris ; passage for Mr Longden and his family; money due to commander of ship Barracouta ; Captain R W B Hunt, Royal Marines, conferred the command of the local militia); Council Office (Order in Council); Foreign Office ('disturbances' in Honduras; death of Captain Moore RN in Honduras; rumoured hostile intentions of Spain towards Honduras; consul at Belize for the Republic of Honduras; 'disturbances' in Honduras and temporary ban on exports of arms and ammunition from Honduras to Yucatan; capture of a prisoner - 'Indians'; appointment of A C Prindle as vice-commercial agent for the United States at Belize; survey of the northern boundary of British Honduras; mail detaining at Havana; contemplated transactions about land between Lieutenant Governor of Honduras and certain residents at New Orleans; McCarthy's commission; legalisation of the signatures affixed of Henry Schauer/Schurer, assistant judge, and Justice of the Peace, and requests death certificates of Adolph Koch; immigration from the Southern States of America; report on blue book for 1866; right of Crown to a tract of land in possession of Messrs Young & Company; act relating to making the river Belize navigable for steam boats; fees for Crown surveyor; sale of large tract of land at Icacos to Mr Putman); Law Officers (act relating to removal of persons deemed a danger to the peace); British Honduras Company Limited (application by George B Lundy for compensation due to captivity by Mexican 'Indians'; account of damages sustained due to Mexican 'Indian' 'invasion'; government operations for measures to secure the island; correspondence relating to Mexican 'Indians'; rebuts charge that Canul's invasion was due to conduct of the agents of the British Honduras Company; history of British Honduras drawn up for distribution amongst intending emigrants from southern states of America; proprietors of land and cultivation, with enclosure of plan; estimated expense of surveying British Honduras); General Post Office (communications between Jamaica and New Orleans or Belize; fines charged upon letters sent from United Kingdom; money order balance); British Consulate, New Orleans (land sales; telegrams received); Treasury (postal communication; debt for postal services; armed steamer for defence of colony; act relating to trading companies and other associations; entertainment expenses for HMS Doris ; mail packet service between Belize and New Orleans; Returns passage allowance for Mr Austin; passage allowance for J R Longden; rate of postage on correspondence between the United Kingdom and British Honduras; expenses for entertainment of Bishop of Kingston on board HMS Barracouta ; duties and taxes; Crown Fund account for the year); Board of Trade (duties and taxes; debt of Henry Shaw); War Office (Major General commanding troops in Jamaica reports detachment despatched to Honduras; consideration by the Assembly of the Militia Bill; Mexican Mayan actions; Militia Act; movement and actions of troops in the colony against Mayans; expenses attending the removal of troops; manuscript map of colony of British Honduras; local rank of Brigadier General conferred upon Lieutenant Colonel Harley; accoutrements supplied from military store in Jamaica for service of Honduras militia; conduct of Major Mackay on retreat of a detachment of the 4th West India Regiment at Honduras; organisation of militia regiment; military accoutrements); Individuals: Austin (lost treasonable papers; sale of land; explanation of course adopted in making provisional application to the Governor General of Cuba for the countenance of a man-of-war); John F Cooke (application to be colonial secretary); Henry Day (asks if Charles Henry Day, colonial engineer and architect, is still in Belize); Jane O Farebrother (settlement of account against estate of late colonial secretary G B Mathew); John Gladding (balance due from S Cockburn for books supplied in 1849); Philip J Hankin (appointed colonial secretary); F Hull (defence of Corosal town and estate of friend John Carmichael near 'Indian' frontier); J R Longden (passage from Jamaica to British Honduras); Edward Sheldon (tenders for performance of the postal service and government contribution to the postal route); Young, Harris and Beran (letter extracts on subject of Mayan attacks in Honduras; conduct of Major Mackay; sale of Crown Lands; ownership of certain land).

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