Bermuda, Sep-Dec 1849, Despatches : Charles Elliot, governor of Bermuda : Index; Financial document; Minutes; Address; Order; Newspaper clipping; Map; Returns; Correspondence; Report Sep-Dec 1849.

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Despatches from Charles Elliot, governor of Bermuda. Described at item level. CO 37/128/1. Forwards the proceedings of the House of Assembly and Legislative Council from 3 to 31 August. Executive, No. 98, folios 3-4. 01/09/1849. CO 37/128/2. Requests information concerning the best means of lighting the prisons by night in order to establish a strict night watch at Boaz Island. Asks that two-dozen lanterns, as used by the Police in London, might be sent for use in the mean time. Convicts, No. 99, folios 5-9. 03/09/1849. CO 37/128/3. Forwards the convict labour returns for July. Convicts, No. 100, folios 9-23. 03/09/1849. CO 37/128/4. Forwards a classified return of convicts showing the number of those who had served three quarters of their time as well as those who had served half their sentence. Expresses an opinion on giving some of them the option of tickets of leave and removal or a continued service and free pardon according to their conduct. Encloses two letters from a convict named George Inglis who went in the Bangalore on a ticket of leave to Van Diemans Land (Tasmania). [Printed for Parliament, Convict Paper, February 1850.] Convicts, No. 101, folios 24-40. 07/09/1849. CO 37/128/5. Reports having transferred the charge of convict stores to the Commissariat. Encloses a letter from the governor to the commissary on the subject. Convicts, No. 102, folios 41-46. 08/09/1849. CO 37/128/6. Forwards further correspondence concerning the long pending dispute between Robert Kennedy and Provost Marshal J H Trott. Executive, No. 103, folios 47-75. 12/09/1849. CO 37/128/7. Forwards some letters written by a convict named Richard Wilson in which he alleges to give information respecting the murder of Mr Westwood, a watchmaker near Leicester Square in London. Convicts, Separate, folios 76-79. 15/09/1849. CO 37/128/8. Reports the importance of establishing a ferry service between Ireland and Somerset Islands. Executive, No. 104, folios 80-87. 20/09/1849. CO 37/128/9. Forwards the required information respecting the services of Alfred M Lloyd of the Convict Service [not included in volume; sent to the Treasury]. Convicts, No. 105, folios 88-89. 24/09/1849. CO 37/128/10. Reports desire to receive pardons for the 158 convicts named in Bermuda despatch No 62 of 6 June 1849. Convicts, No. 106, folios 90-92. 25/09/1849. CO 37/128/11. Forwards correspondence with the Commandant of Royal Engineers concerning the prison, stores, and other buildings under construction on Boaz Island. Reports on the progress of these works. Convicts, No. 107, folios 93-106. 26/09/1849. CO 37/128/12. Forwards a return of quarantine expenditure for the decade ending 1848. Executive, No. 108, folios 107-110. 27/09/1849. CO 37/128/13. Forwards a copy of the governor's speech given at the proroguing of the Legislature on 28 September. Reports that the clergy bill had expired after thirty years of operation. Adds that the grant for education had been reduced by one third. No. 109, folios 111-122. 29/09/1849. CO 37/128/14. Forwards a paper from Francis Burdett Black containing a long defence of his conduct and the events which led to his suspension. Encloses other documents and various orders issued by the governor at different times relative to convict discipline. Also includes a Colonial Office précis of the case. Convicts, No. 110, folios 123-186. 02/10/1849. CO 37/128/15. Forwards the convict labour returns for August. Convicts, No. 111, folios 187-200. 03/10/1849. CO 37/128/16. Forwards the proceedings of the House of Assembly and Legislative Council from 4 to 20 September [not included in volume]. Executive, No. 112, folios 201-202. 03/10/1849. CO 37/128/17. Reports the circumstances under which he had considered it expedient to suspend Coromandel Overseer George K Kirkham. Encloses reports and correspondence showing that the stores of the hulk had been improperly appropriated, principally by his wife, who had also interfered with the hulk's system. Recommends a reduction of overseers when Boaz Island prison was completed. Convicts, No. 113, folios 203-255. 03/10/1849. CO 37/128/18. Suggests employing Francis Black as an assistant to the commissary, checking and supervising the convict stores. Private, folios 256-259. 04/10/1849. CO 37/128/19. Forwards an address from the Assembly requesting for two rooms, at present occupied by the Customs, to be handed over to the Public Library. Executive, No. 114, folios 260-263. 06/10/1849. CO 37/128/20. Forwards a report of two convicts having been discovered in the act of 'unnatural crime'. Recommends that being severely whipped in private and kept in solitary confinement would be a better punishment than the publicity of a trial. Private and Confidential, folios 264-273. 13/10/1849. CO 37/128/21. Forwards a report from the attorney general concerning crimes liable for capital punishment. Printed for Parliament, Capital Punishment, 14 February 1850. Executive, No. 115, folios 274-275. 14/10/1849. CO 37/128/22. Forwards and comments on the medical report of the Convict Establishment for the quarter ending 30 September. Recommends an additional assistant surgeon as previously suggested. Convicts, No. 116, folios 276-289. 21/10/1849. CO 37/128/23. Forwards the attested lists of the convicts for the quarter ending 30 September. Reports receiving the 155 pardons. Also notes readiness to receive the 300 convicts who were coming out. Convicts, No. 117, folios 290-291. 23/10/1849. CO 37/128/24. Replies to the enquiries respecting the husband of Mrs Davis, who was a convict guard but had been discharged at his own request. Convicts, No. 118, folios 292-293. 23/10/1849. CO 37/128/25. Forwards a return of convicts Richard Cooke and Thomas White who were recommended for pardons by the medical superintendent for their assistance in the hospitals. Convicts, No. 119, folios 294-298. 26/10/1849. CO 37/128/26. Forwards a report explaining the reasons for a supplementary estimate of £80 needed to complete the bridge at Boaz Island. Convicts, No. 120, folios 299-303. 27/10/1849. CO 37/128/27. Forwards the required information respecting lighthouses. Executive, No. 122, folios 304-305. 30/10/1849. CO 37/128/28. Forwards copies of the seventeen Acts passed during the last session [not included in volume]. Encloses the attorney general's report on them. Acts are listed as: No. 1 To ascertain the extent of the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in cases of sabotage; No. 2 For encouraging a general vaccination; No. 3 Public Gaols, amendment; No. 4 Laws relative to suits before Justices of the Peace and Parish rates, amendment; No. 5 Revenue Act; No. 6 In addition to Act regulating the merchant Seamen in Bermuda vessels; No. 7 For improving the Police, amendment; No. 8 For the better regulation of vestries, constables and church wardens, amendment; No. 9 To declare the signification of certain expressions used in Acts; No. 10 For settling an annuity on George Forster Mallory; No. 11 To regulate prison labour; No. 12 For the appointment of a Treasury clerk; No. 13 To provide for the collection of the revenue, amendment; No. 14 For aiding in the establishment of schools, amendment; No. 15 To provide for the quarterly payment of the claims of certain public creditors; No. 16 Clerk of the Council and clerk of the House of Assembly salaries; No. 17 For the regulation of a hospital for insane paupers, amendment. Legislative, No. 123, folios 306-322. 01/11/1849. CO 37/128/29. Forwards enclosures omitted from Bermuda despatch No. 116 of 1849 [not included in item; see CO 37/128/22]. Convicts, Separate, folios 323-324. 01/11/1849. CO 37/128/30. Forwards copies of recommendations made in favour of convicts Francis Galligher, James Finnagan and John Magee. Suggests an enquiry into the merits of their cases. Also encloses the particulars of the three men. Convicts, No. 124, folios 325-338. 03/11/1849. CO 37/128/31. Forwards the convict labour returns for September. Convicts, No. 125, folios 339-354. 08/11/1849. CO 37/128/32. Forwards another letter from Robert Kennedy concerning his dispute with J Trott. Executive, No. 126, folios 355-359. 10/11/1849. CO 37/128/33. Asks for a supply of W R Collins' disinfecting powder. Convicts, No. 127, folios 360-362. 13/11/1849. CO 37/128/34. Forwards duplicates of the Acts, minutes of the proceedings of the Privy Council and Legislative Councils, and the journals of the House of Assembly [not included in volume].

Legislative, No. 128, folio 363. 13/11/1849. CO 37/128/35. Forwards a recommendation for conditional pardons for two convicts named Maurice Jones and Charles Tavey [not included in volume; sent to the Home Office]. Convicts, No. 129, folios 364-366. 13/11/1849. CO 37/128/36. Forwards minutes of the proceedings of the Councils and Assembly [not included in volume]. Legislative, No. 130, folios 367-368. 26/11/1849. CO 37/128/37. Forwards the convict labour returns for October. Convicts No. 131, folios 369-378.

29/11/1849. CO 37/128/38. Recommends that the steamers should be allowed to pick up the mail at Hamilton rather than St Georges on their return voyages. Executive, No. 132, folios 379-381. 29/11/1849. CO 37/128/39. Reports that several copies of Colonel Reid's book 'Law of Storms' had been distributed in the colony. Executive, No. 133, folio 382. 29/11/1849. CO 37/128/40. Forwards a statement of the gratuity of a convict named Joseph Bird, for his reserved earnings etc. Convicts, No. 134, folios 383-385. 29/11/1849. CO 37/128/41. Reports the arrival of the Pestongee Bomangee with 301 convicts on board. Convicts, No. 135, folio 386. 13/12/1849. CO 37/128/42. Forwards the report on the newly arrived convicts. Calls attention to a convict named William Quinton who was allegedly of unsound mind. Convicts, No. 136, folios 387-393. 25/12/1849. CO 37/128/43. Quarterly report of the governor's service. Unnumbered, folio 398. 31/03/1849. CO 37/128/44. Quarterly report of the governor's service. Unnumbered, folio 399. 03/07/1849. CO 37/128/45. Quarterly report of the governor's service. Unnumbered, folio 400. 30/09/1849. CO 37/128/46. Quarterly report of the governor's service. Unnumbered, folio 401. 31/12/1849. CO 37/128/47. Return of colonial officers present and in execution of office during the quarter ending 30 June. Return of members of the Legislative and Privy Council holding office during the half year ending 30 June. Return of steam vessels built and registered during the half year ending 30 June. None are listed. Unnumbered, folios 402, 404-405. 01/07/1849. CO 37/128/48. Return of colonial officers present and in execution of office during the quarter ending 30 September. Unnumbered, folio 403. 1/10/1849. CO 37/128/49. A return of all civil officers whose duties were executed by a deputy and officers absent on leave for the year ending 30 September. None are listed. Unnumbered, folio 406. 01/10/1849. CO 37/128/50. Return of retired allowances and return of salaries granted to stipendiary magistrates for the year ending 30 September. Unnumbered, folios 407-410. 01/10/1849.

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AMDigital Reference:CO 37/128.

CO 37.