Jamaica, 1840, Offices : Order; Correspondence; Minutes; Address; Memorial; Report; Acts and Legislation; Petition; Index; Returns Jan 1840 - Jan 1841.

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Other

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English

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Speeches.

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1 online resource.

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English

Summary:

Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: House of Commons (orders); Admiralty (rules and regulations Vice Admiralty Court; hulk for reception of convicts; payment of Sir C Metcalf's journey; no hulk can be appropriated as prison); Agent (rum duties; papers to be moved; summary of subjects brought under Lord John Russell's notice; postage; conciliatory proceedings of Assembly; resolutions passed at a meeting of West India Proprietors & Planters; reply to communication with secretary of state; Queen's marriage; debt of £200,000; requests interview on state of affairs; report on wheat tillage in Barbados; Colonial Judicature Act; export of camels to West Indies; copies of Laws passed); Judicature Act (plan and memoranda); Commander in Chief (Sir W Gomm's residence; Rose Hill barracks; report on West India Regiment; interchange of 'black' troops; increase of 'black' troops; barracks); Privy Council Office (Acts: disallowing no 3319, 'an Act for establishing a Court of Common Pleas, St Catherine', no 3320 'to revive and continue in force an Act€¦.for Supreme Court of Judicature to grant special juries subsistence to witnesses', no 3337 'an Act for reviving Laws relating to clergy and to invest Bishop with Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction'; allowing Acts nos 3319, 3320, & 3337); Board of Trade (Mr Clarke may import certain plants resembling tea plant on same rate of duty; Acts nos 3321 & 3359 import and export duty, may be left to operation, Bank Act no 3344 to be disallowed; no objection to Act no 3353; report on plan of government for raising funds by a duty on British Manufactures to build a penitentiary; Acts no 3353, 3359, 3324-3326, 3360-3364; Steam Communication Act no 3358, Duty on flour for Troops Act, no 3361; memorandum on Acts nos 3319, 3320, 3337); Foreign Office (regarding slave ship Rosalia Habanaira ; regarding slave ship Scorpio at Sierra Leone; slave ship Victoria at Sierra Leone; Acts and treaties regarding suppression of the Slave Trade; export of camels to West Indies; slavery case of American schooner Brilliant wrecked on coast of Cuba and plundered by Maid of Milk ; inspector of prisons report; report on Police Act; report on Prisons Act, no 3341; certain papers being laid before Parliament); Law Officers (Criminal Law Act no 3284; opinion on Acts nos 3306, 3323, 3324, 3325, 3326; report on Wills Act no 3351; administration of Justice Bill no 3345; report on imprisonment for debt Act, no 3349); Board of Ordnance (barracks); War Office (barracks; religious instruction to Roman Catholic soldiers; Major Darling's appointments); Treasury (Sir L Smith's passage & salary; salary to secretary; Bishop's salary; duty on flour imported for troops; postage; light house on Morant Point; barrack at Maroon Town; Sir Gomm's residence; expenses for Captain of Spanish schooner Cuidad Cubana ; report on Acts nos 3311, 3317, 3314, 3332, 3327, 3340; payments to stipendiaries; report of Acts nos 3358 & 3361; bill drawn by Bishop; report on Acts nos 3321 & 3359; Africans of Isabellita , papers from collector of Customs; report on Act no 3353; expenditure for Africans landed from slave ship Feliz ; expenses of liberated Africans, remarks on bill; Mr Anderson's claims for payment; audit on Mr Roby's accounts; currency; barracks at Maroon Town); Colonial Bank (Bank Act; Currency Act; issue of certain notes to the Colonial Bank); Baptist Missionary Society (conduct of Sir C Metcalfe; case of Reverend S Oughton; case of Mr Ward; Dissenters Marriage Act); British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society (stipendiary magistrates reports; state of the labourers; requests interview on certain Laws; memorial against certain Laws; emigrant vessel about to sail from Limerick); Miscellaneous Offices (Excise: Bill for regulating hawkers and pedlars to solicitor for Stamps and Taxes; Stamps & Taxes: report on Hawkers Bill; Post Office: internal post, cannot comply with request to send Parochial Registers free of postage; Wesleyan Society: new Marriage Act; Land Board: plan to form a society to promote emigration to Jamaica, Act to encourage emigration; West India Immigration Society: grant of land).

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AMDigital Reference:CO 137/252.

CO 137.