Letters from offices (Government departments and other organisations). Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Admiralty (resignation of Chief Justice Edwards, vessel La Have, protection of seamers clothing and property); Crown Agents (stationery for Government, nickel coins, wines and malt liquors for Public Hospital, iron work, Sir Joshua Rowe's pension, sinking fund, immigration loan, salary to dignitaries, monies drawn by Treasurer, salary to John Peter Grant, salary to officials on leave, payment of Reverend D Rowe's salary, payment of pensions, Chancery deposits, building loan, main road and bridges loan, Returns passage fund, mutual guarantee fund, articles for lunatic asylum, Commissariat certificate, full salary to Reverend W E Pierce, supply of water to Spanish Town, iron casings for Kingston market, safes for Colonial and Treasury Departments, district engineer, pumping machinery, manufacture of flags, bill to treasurer); Council Offices (appointment of Chemist); Board of Trade (warehousing ports, extend provisions of Harbour Regulations Act); India Office (Indian penal code, death of Indian worker, irrigation works); Law Officers (seizure of arms on La Have, establishment of the Church); Treasury (salary to Reverend A Rees, nickel coinage, redemption and sale of debentures, stationery, treasury chests, licence for exploration, superannuation, new debentures, seizure of La Have, claim of W Eyre, guaranteed loans, clergymen entitled to stipends, loan debenture bonds, case of J W Jackson, personal effects of Jane Spencer, pensions to clerks of inland revenue, retiring allowance to Mr Jackson, stipend to Mr Webble, telegraph communication); Foreign Office (General Salomon's claim for compensation, Haitian Consul, reimbursement to Government, appointment of Thomas H Pearce as United States Consul, appointment of A E Phillips as interim Consul for the United States, penal statistics and procedure, permission for Messrs Emile Pierre and Jean Bart to Returns to colony, penal code of North German Confederation and Saxony, penal laws in Belgium, penal law in United States, penal laws in Sweden and Norway, penal laws in Denmark, state of affairs in Haiti [Haiti], Mr Wright's application); Home Office (visit to prisons and industrial schools in England, penal system in United States); War Office (statement of stores, sanitary condition of barracks, contagious diseases law, additional accommodation at Newcastle, allowances in lieu of customs duties, Sir H Johnson's precedency with naval and civil authorities, payment of lodging money for Staff Sergeants); Land Board (export duties on pimento and ginger, forfeiture of land for non-payment of land tax).

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Series: CO 137 Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence.

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Colonial Caribbean Module 3: Economic Change and Indentured Labour, 1850-1870

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