Letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices: Admiralty (passages for colonial officers and their families, proposed alteration to the route of the West India mail steamers); Colonial Agent (conveyance of 10,000 postage stamps, requisition for medicine, payment of Mr Saunders' 427 claim for goods supplied, screws for piles for the new jetty, shipment of school books, requisition for 15,000 penny postage labels, requisition for stamps types, requisition for books like those used in the normal and model schools of Chelsea Asylum, requisition for repair of eight thermometers, travel expenses of workmen sent to lay down water pipes); Privy Council Office (confirms Deeds Registration Amendment Ordinance, repeal of six Orders in Council); Board of Trade (amendment of Juan Ramos' Sugar Patent Ordinance); Foreign Office (transmission of judiciary document, death certificates of Claude Etienne Gaudier and his wife, remission of Spanish duties on Trinidad cocoa, appointment of Mr Beichman as Danish Consul); Treasury (improvement of gaol at Port of Spain, confirmation of Water Supply Port of Spain Ordinance, customs salaries, confirmation of Insolvent Debtors Relief Ordinance, guaranteed loan interest, auditor's queries on the treasurer's accounts, appointment of a Roman Catholic priest in Maravel Ward in Port of Spain, Estimates and Appropriation Ordinance, unfixed expenditure); Loan Agents (account of receipts and payments and balance of loan); Great Exhibition Commissioners (explains non-transmission of a medal for Sir W Purdee); Colonial Land Emigration Office (opinion on a draft Ordinance for the prevention of Squatting); General Post Office (new bond of the Packet Agent); Individuals: Lieutenant Colonel E Archer (claim to half salary during his administration of the government); J Scott Bushe (applies for government employment); Henry Bradfield, former Crown Magistrate (applies for copy of permit granted to him in 1842 to search Spanish treasure ships sunk off Trinidad); Thomas Parry, Bishop of Barbados (report of visit to Trinidad, visitation expenses, printed copy of 'A Charge Delivered in the Church of the Holy Trinity Port of Spain on 10 February 1852', recommends that bishop reside in Trinidad for six months every two years); Captain M Domville [sp?] (acknowledges appointment as customs collector, half pay for temporary appointment); Major James Fagan (case of his dismissal as 'Coolie' Stipendiary Magistrate and Superintendent of Immigration); Mrs Amelia Gomez (claim to an allowance due to her deceased husband's service); Dr Hector Gavin, Medical Inspector (printed report concerning public health and the prevention of cholera); Thomas F Johnston, Colonial Secretary (reports four months' leave of absence granted to Superintendent of San Francisco Hospital William Kelaart); William P Kelaart (reports arrival in England on leave, requests an additional month's leave of absence); James Simpson (intended water works for Port of Spain); Edward Whalley (requests a contract passage, salary as customs collector, resignation of appointment as customs collector, explains reasons for needing to remain in England, claims to re-employment).

AMDigital Reference: CO 295/179.

Series: CO 295 Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence.

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

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