Bahamas, 1836, Offices and Individuals : Index; Order; Newspaper clipping; Minutes; Correspondence 1836.

Format:

Other

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Letter writing.

Letters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 23/93 and CO 23/94. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments): Admiralty (suppression of the slave trade, Lieutenant Governor Colebrooke's circuit and passage expenses); Commander and Chief (recommends Colonel Smelt as Lieutenant Governor, defence and troops); Council (leaves various acts to operation, disallows Acts 914 and 928); Board of Trade (unwillingness to relax the navigation laws); Foreign Office (construction of lighthouse at Cay Sal Bank by the Spanish, William Foster's case of enslavement in Florida); Law Officers (ship-wrecked Spanish convicts, commutation of John Bonas' sentence, report on the Walter Sims murder trial); Board of Ordnance (garrison strength, increase of defences); Treasury (judicial arrangements, commutation of quit rents, lighthouses at Gun Cay and Abaco, liberated Africans, Balfour's passage, salary of Acting Attorney General Wood, bill for building a 'normal school' for 'Negro' education, termination of the position of Secretary to the Auxiliary Board of Compensation ); War Office (former Acting Attorney General Lieutenant Henry M Williams' pay arrears); Office of Commissioners of Compensation (explains that the compensation fund was distributed according to an act of Parliament); General Post Office (letters for New Providence and Turks Island to be sent in separate bags); Baptist Missionary Society (validity of marriages solemnised by Baptist missionaries); Lloyds (lighthouses at Gun Cay and Abaco). Individuals: Henry P Bird (client's claim against Magistrate Sandilands) Blayney Balfour (Munnings' pension, state of Turks Island, Sir J C Smyth's correspondence, condition of the Bahamas Mr Cockburn (state of the Bahamas) H M Dyer (appointment of J C Lees as Chief Justice to replace William Munnings); Edward Eustace Hill (reports arrival on leave of absence, resigns appointment of stipendiary magistrate); J H Light (passage to Jamaica); J C Lees (forwards letters, comments on appointment); James Malcolm (proceedings of the Assembly); A Murray (state of his property in the Bahamas); A Mackenzie, Stipendiary Magistrate ('detained by contrary wind'); Hector Munro (resigns stipendiary magistrate appointment, pay arrears); Lord Rolle (asks what number of slaves were returned for his plantation at Exuma); Rev William Strachan (forwards a sermon preached by him to some apprentices); James Walker (leave of absence, opinions on the West Indies compensation, admission of liberated Africans into the militia); W W Wren (actions taken by two Frenchmen to recover certain freehold property).

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AMDigital Reference:CO 23/98.

CO 23.