Trinidad, 1845, Individuals : Correspondence; Petition; Address; Acts and Legislation; Legal document; Plans and Illustrations; Index Jul-Aug 1843; Feb 1844 - Feb 1846.

Format:

Other

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Speeches.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Language Note:

English; French

Summary:

Letters from various individuals on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Durant St Andre (import export duty ordinance requested); Joseph S Agostini, Barrister (escheat of J Smith's property); Major J Adair (requests Captain Lewis James Hay's health certificate); Lieutenant Colonel E Archer (requests appointment of acting governor, allowances as acting governor, requests employment in the colonial service); J Bidwell (requests Henry Dillon's death certificate); Sampson Brissier, 'native of Africa' (petition for compensation money due to him); Chalmers Guthrie & Company (recommends confirmation of Mr Fuller's appointment as Second Puisne Judge); Miss Elizabeth Christie (petition requesting assistance as the daughter of George Christie the late Assistant Quartermaster General of the Surveying Department); James Chipchase (asks for the address of Charles Chipchase); Mr Dunlop (letter for Lady McLeod); Sir Lewis Grant (recommends Mr Wyllys' promotion to a puisne judgeship); Frederick Hamilton (position of emigration agent for Jamaica, British Guiana and Trinidad for liberated Africans, payment of a £50 bill); Rev J Hamilton (arrival, salary); Charles Hobson (requests appointment of official assignee); John Jones (protests against the ordinance for establishing a Court of Appeal in cases of offences punishable on summary convictions); Charles Fred Knox, Stipendiary Magistrate (arrival on leave, requests a leave extension); A Kennedy (claim for payment for services on board the Fairy Queen as medical attendant on African immigrants in quarantine); Dr Thomas Murray (requests a leave extension); George M Henry, former Surgeon of the Liberated African Establishment in St Helena (requests appointment as emigration agent at Sierra Leone); A Macgregor (memorandum on the Contract Ordinance); H C Ouseley (leave of absence and consequent arrangement, remarks on plan for remodelling the Emigration Agencies at Rio de Janeiro); John Simson (signature to be attested); George Scotland (leave of absence, inability to get passage on a steamer); Dr Richard P Smith, Bishop of Olympus (requests a full salary while on leave, securing of a Roman Catholic priest); Louis Stanislas (claim to property withheld by Jean Baptiste Paul); Lord Sandon (enquiry regarding the estate and effects of shipbuilder Robert Bannister); White, Blake, Tyler and Fawkener (requests former Chief Justice Ashton Warner's death certificate); Thomas Tilson (requests an interview regarding a certain ordinance); Arthur White (leave of absence, medical certificate, payment of half salary); Mrs Catherine Warner (enquiry regarding the addition of the attorney general's name to a list of Trinidad Railway directors); Sorzano v McSwiny (documents related to the case of Martin Sorzano, Commissary of Population and Surveyor General, against Bryan McSwiny 'to compel the Department to take down and remove a gallery or projection annexed to his house on Frederick Street in Port of Spain').

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:CO 295/149.

CO 295.