Jamaica, 1834, Offices : Order; Financial document; Memorandum; Report; Legal document; Minutes; Acts and Legislation; Proclamation; Memorial; Index; Correspondence; Returns 27 Jan 1828 - 12 Jan 1835.

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Other

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Letter writing.

Letters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in 1834. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government departments): Admiralty (Lord Sligo's reception, Belgravia; Blonde in respect of Belgravia; Lord Sligo's passage; latter appointed as vice admiral; passage of Lord Sligo; sailing of packet; costs of entertaining Lord Mulgrave; costs of same for tour; Bishop's passage; packet; magistrates' conveyance; mail conveyance by packet); Agent (Abolition Bill; requests interview; copy of Abolition Bill; representative of Assembly regarding Abolition Bill, Assembly order regarding labour from Germany and elsewhere; Assembly's petition of Merril; packet arrangements; future sailing of packets; trusts Missionaries Knibb and others may not be allowed at Jamaica; list of articles produced by colony; Missionaries Knibb and others; provision in proposed Act exempting vessels importing immigrants from tonnage duty; detention of mail; appeal from certain Compensation Commission rules; reply on emigration; emigration Bill; state of colony from accounts; communication of Agent's applications; mail detention; 'critical' state of island; correspondence between Burge and Rice, concerns with the Committee of Correspondence); West India Committee (alteration of packet; packet detention; change of packet system; mail detention); Commander in Chief (black prisoners in island; judge advocate general's remarks on courts martial held during late 'rebellion' of enslaved persons; satisfactory state of island, island allowances; Walsh recommended stipendiary magistrate); Council Office (leaving to its own operation Act 3089, Abolition of Slavery); Foreign Office (property of Swede named Feliander; instructions to British Consul at Havana regarding Slave Trade; British laws broken by American ship Mexicana); Home Office (James Brodrick recommended stipendiary magistrate); Law Officers (disagreement between Bishop and Rev Bowerbank); James Stephen, legal adviser (case of Mr Coulston tried for murder; reports trial, execution of Coulston; case of John Thorpe indicted for murder; case of enslaved person Edward Bennett tried for murder; complaint by Mr Evelyn against chief justice; reports on Acts separately bound {see CO 323/50]); Ordinance (accommodation stipendiary magistrates; head quarters of regiment at Maroon Town); Treasury (payment Mr Stewart for triennial returns; proposal of Messrs Atkinson and Hosier to transfer indentures of enslaved persons employed as pioneers to troops; Mr Mulgrave's bill for care and maintenance of shipwrecked Africans; advance to the Commissioners; island allowances; support of troops; property of late Robert Marshall; Mr Grenville's patent; Bishop's bills; wreck of Portuguese slave ship Heroina ; hire of pioneers; Lord Mulgrave's passage; Mr Sweeney's passage; compensation for destruction of Baptist and Wesleyan chapels; colonial barrack expenditure; black pioneers; payments to magistrates; payment to stipendiary magistrates; maintenance of troops; King and Queen's portraits); War Office (table allowance; York's salary as private secretary; Chelsea pensioners volunteering into Police; pay Captain Connor); Baptist Missionary Society ('act of cruelty' upon member of congregation at Falmouth; Eclectic Review; statement of chapels destroyed; numerous correspondence on destroyed chapels; institution of marriage after abolition of slavery; donation request; supporting Alexander Openheim's application stipendiary magistrate; Rev Coultart's report on apprentice mal-treatment at Pedro Plains; statements on apprentice mal-treatment); Wesleyan Missionary Society (meeting at Colonial Office; Missionaries prevented from returning to Jamaica; numerous correspondence on destroyed chapels); Miscalleneous (Agent: sailing of packets; Commissioners of Compensation: confirmation of rules, proceedings of assistant commissioners in Jamaica; South American and Mexican Association: delayed packets).

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:CO 137/195.

CO 137.