West Indies Original Correspondence, Dec 1836 - Dec 1837, Offices : Index; Memorandum; Acts and Legislation; Returns; Report; Order; Correspondence Dec 1836 - Dec 1837.

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English

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Letter writing.

Letters.

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1 online resource.

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English

Summary:

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) on matters relating to the West Indies. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: House of Commons (request for papers relating to the abolition of slavery and apprenticeship, request for a return of the distribution of the grant for the abolition of slavery, request for return of expenses of the compensation commissioners and of claims not yet awarded, request for copy of memorial relating to apprenticeship and the answer, request for papers relating to the slave trade); Admiralty (packet service, conveyance of military convicts, orders given for mails to be landed quickly after the arrival of the packets at Barbados and enquiry into failure to call at St Lucia, mail boats to be despatched the day after the packet arrives, further concerning the packet and mail boat arrangements, transmission of public mails from infected to healthy ports, proposal for a smaller vessel for conveying liberated Africans at Havana, the Romney to be sent for use to convey liberated Africans, copy of instructions to officer commanding the Romney , irregularity of delivery of letters); Agents (4½% duties at Barbados, remarks on the colonial bar, delay in bringing the Administration of Justice Act into operation); Commander in Chief (recruiting party to receive ships at Havana, plan for more frequently relieving the troops in the West Indies, recruiting of liberated Africans for West India regiments, recruiting in Bahamas for West India regiments to be discontinued, barrack accommodation, concentration of troops at Barbados, employment of a government steamer, mortality rates, enlistment of Africans for the 1st West India Regiment from those landed from the Don Francisco ); Council Office (approves additional instructions relating to appeals); Board of Trade (trade with Haiti); Foreign Office (intention of the governor of Georgia to enforce the laws of that state respecting 'coloured' seamen, request for statement of the working of the apprenticeship system, forwards papers relating to the slave trade which have been presented to Parliament, increased facilities granted by the Venezuelan Government relating to the export of livestock, trade with Haiti, asks if Lord Glenelg would wish to see Captain Fair on slave trade matters); Home Office (no objections to the system of transportation of 'negro' convicts); Board of Ordnance (requires 50 copies of statistical forms, respecting a hidden treasure); Treasury (case of the slave ship Preciosa , directors of the Colonial Bank decline coinage on terms proposed, Slave Registry Office charges to 31 December 1836, reduction of salaries of certain officers, payment of additional expenses incurred by special magistrates, mail boat arrangements, not advisable to issue instructions requiring public monies to be deposited with Colonial Bank as requested by its directors, military allowances, Slave Registry Office charges to 30 June, approve arrangements respecting Captain Pringle, discontinuation of auxiliary boards of slave compensation commissioners, conveyance of military convicts, salary and expenses of Dr Madden); Compensation Commissioners (regular correspondence forwarding certificates and lists of claims [covering letters only in volume], report of the work of the commission to 18 August 1837 including account of the work still to be done [with financial accounts], estimate of the extent of the returns required by the Treasury [amount of copying required and number of clerks needed], further on the preparation of the returns, reports that return has been sent to the Treasury); Colonial Bank (reports that the bank commenced business on 13 May, circulation of their notes); General Post Office (West India packet service, route of the North American and West Indian packets); Customs House, Falmouth (receipts for boxes); Slave Registry Office (accounts to 31 December 1836 and 30 June 1837); Anti-Slavery Society (forwards two pamphlets: 'Colonial Laws as examined by a Committee of the House of Commons in the year 1836 exhibiting some of the principal discrepancies between those laws and the Imperial Act of Abolition', and 'An Act of the Jamaica Legislature for the classification of the apprenticed labourers', forwards cutting from The Patriot on the working of the apprenticeship scheme giving a summary of punishments inflicted, memorandum of representations made by a delegation of the Society at a meeting with the secretary of state on 1 December 1837 to discuss the working of the abolition laws [with printed copy of proclamation of the governor general of the Danish West Indies]); Royal Hospital Chelsea (asks if there is an accredited agent of the British Government at Martinique through whom an out pensioner can be paid); Church Missionary Society (difficult of purchasing land for school houses); Lloyds (Captain Manby's apparatus for the preservation of life from shipwreck).

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AMDigital Reference:CO 318/128.

CO 318.