Jamaica, 1835, Public Offices : Order; Address; Financial document; Public notice; Petition; Index; Report; Legal document; Memorandum; Correspondence; Minutes Jul 1834 - Jan 1836.

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English

Latin

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Speeches.

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1 online resource.

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English; Latin

Summary:

Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in 1835. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government departments): House of Commons (Returns of periods of residence of the bishops of Jamaica and Barbados); Admiralty (conveyance of mail; introduction of Chinese labourers; passage for stipendiary magistrate; expense of bishop's entertainment; state of Dee steam ship; fees of vice admiralty registrar; passage money paid to commanders of branch steam packets; expense of Lord Sligo's visit to parts of island; duties of Admiralty Court registrar being performed by deputy; expense of conveying convicts); Agent (Slavery Abolition Bill; appeal by Legislature against certain rules of the Compensation Commissioners; correspondence with Mr Rice; answer of Committee of Correspondence on latter; subjects proposed to bring under secretary of state; late arrival of Mr Hay's letter; refusal of inspection by Lord Sligo of certain correspondence; resolution of Assembly on governor's salary, reports on Assembly committee on compensation claim by persons whose slaves were omitted to be registered, conduct of General Post Office; costs of appeal by Legislature against Compensation Commissioners; German emigrants from Bremen; costs of Legislature appeal against Compensation Commissioners; island postage; management of Post Office; Lord Sligo's communication to Assembly; public objection to Act of last session; dissolution of Assembly; practice of reading messages to governor previous to presentation of address); West India Committee (critical state of island); Commander in Chief (conduct of officers from St Ann's Western Regiment of Militia; Sligo's proposal regarding military medical department, treatment of invalids of naval and military forces; supply of water to troops; departure of Colonel Smelt for Jamaica); Board of Trade (case of Mrs Thompsons Merril; letter from Messrs Mitchell regarding Bill imposing duty on imports); Foreign Office (petition from person named Maillet regarding property at Kingston; arms and ammunition should be supplied to the Venezuelans; not advisable to employ Lieutenant Colonel Gregg on mission to enquire into Venezuela); Law Office (suggests Board of Enquiry instead of Court Martial to investigate certain case; competency of Assize Court; certain unregistered enslaved persons in Grand Cayman and Jamaica became entitled to freedom from 1 August; Act consolidating and amending Laws regarding Clergy; verdicts in case of Briggs and Rodriguez; enslaved persons omitted in Registry of 1832 are entitled to unqualified freedom); Board of Ordinance (propose to relinquish Fort Nugent and Rockfort Barracks to the colony; delimitation of military works); Treasury (passage of stipendiary magistrates, including Lieutenant Walsh; payment of stipendiary magistrates; allowances to stipendiary magistrates; reimbursing stipendiary magistrates' postage expense; report of the Compensation Commissioners regarding pay of secretary; advertisement of Thomas Black; payment of Stipendiary Magistrate Lloyd; over-payment of Stipendiary Magistrate Baynes; pay issued to special magistrates; reimbursement of Stipendiary Magistrate Oldry; Forbes' claim for repayment; Bishop's bill; law expenses attending to prosecution of slave ship Heroine ; cannot appoint Captain Lyon in Customs; Bishop's expenses; over-payment of salary made to Captain Baynes; establishment of a branch Bank of England in Jamaica, custody of funds of Court of Chancery; contingent expenses of non-stipendiary special magistrates; placing special justices in general Commission of the Peace; report of Assembly on Post Office; Bishop instructed to make refund; fraud perpetrated by Messrs Anderson and Phillpotts; costs of appeal against rules of the Compensation Commissioners; Stipendiary Magistrate Browne's passage; colonial magistrates empowered to act as special justices; expenses of prosecution against a stipendiary magistrate; Post Office under consideration; passage of Stipendiary Magistrate Fitzgerald; expense incurred by governors in visiting the islands under their governance; Mr Hill may be appointed as teacher at Kingston; fee owing to J Donbinson; expenses of ancillary Compensation Commissioners; placing troops on same footing as that of troops in Windward and Leeward Island command; passage for Stipendiary Magistrate Hulmes; passage for Captain Pell; payment to Stipendiary Magistrate Stewart; arrears of advertisement duty, Mr Odell; salaries of bishops and clergy; provisions to soldiers; advance to Rev Sweeney; payment to Stipendiary Magistrate Browne; cannot confirm Mr Hamilton in office of waiter and searcher at Kingston; advertisement regarding Mr Black; postage on official correspondence; barracks for detachment of troops at Caymans; postage expenses of stipendiary magistrates; advertisement in Jamaican newspapers; duties on supplies for troops; instructions to Lord Sligo for his guidance on meeting of Assembly; postage of governor and secretary; abolition of Lord Bloomfield's office of governor of Fort Charles; suggestions respecting office Mr Grenville; reimbursement of Stipendiary Magistrate Fitzgerald; Stipendiary Magistrate Colebrooke's passage; claim of Messrs Atkinson and Hosier arising out of their contract for providing pioneers for the military service; Pioneer Service; cannot relax legislation regarding ineligibility from age in favour of searcher at Kingston; Mr Burge's claim on behalf of Jamaica to be relieved from paying appeal costs against certain rules of Compensation Commissioners); War Office (raising a force to be employed as a permanent Police; table allowances of the general officer commissary; salary of the general commissary; salary of Colonel Doyle); Commissioners of Compensation (assistant commanders giving information to Assembly; compensation claims for enslaved persons at the Caymans for unregistered enslaved persons at Jamaica; counter claims; compensation for unregistered slaves; certificates of claims in St Catherines, St Dorothy, St John, St Thomas in the Vale, St Mary, St Anne; certificates and lists of claims no 27-35; receipt of counter claims; adjudication of uncontested claims; salary assigned to Mr Murphy and recovery of fees appropriated to himself; proceedings of the auxiliary Board); Miscellaneous Offices: Baptist Missionary Society (imprisonment of Rev Abbott; religious education; instruction of the labouring classes; statement regarding case of apprentice J I Higgen); Post Office (state of Post Office; extract of a letter from Jamaica; petition from R Ashburne; proposal that Assembly have control of Post Office); Church Missionary Society (missionaries' labours); Irish Office (information regarding case of Mr Dundas); Royal College of Surgeons (practice of physic surgery); British and Jamaica School Society (Jamaica Metropolitan School); Packet Agent (despatches delivered Colonel McLeod).

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AMDigital Reference:CO 137/206.

CO 137.