Catalogue description Offices and Individuals. Letters received from various government offices (departments),...

Offices and Individuals. Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados. Correspondence from the bishop of Barbados for 1839 is bound separately [see CO 28/153]. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (passage for governor and family, use of steam vessel for official tours of inspection);
• Agent (behaviour of the freed population, protest against West Indian prisons bill, supply of vaccine against smallpox, recruitment of labourers for British Guiana);
• Commander in Chief (provision of armed steam vessel, erection of additional 'pavilion', erection of chapel and minister's residence within the garrison, governor's passage);
• Council Office (proclamations respecting currency);
• Board of Trade (disallowance of Act No. 603 'for settling the rights of paupers to dwell immovably in one particular parish');
• Foreign Office (Barbadians enslaved in Texas);
• Home Office (prisons);
• Treasury (barrack accommodation, governor's passage, Colonial Bank, transportation of military convicts, claim of John Bonningham and others for grant of escheated property of Anne Grant and Anne Sandiford, unsuccessful efforts to locate treasure, allowance for office rent for the secretary of the Auxiliary Board of Slave Compensation, currency proclamation, bill drawn by Mrs Adams for arrears of salary due to her late husband as schoolmaster, expenses incurred by governor on official visits, legislation for relieving certain individuals from fines incurred under the quarantine laws);
• War Office (erection of chapel for the troops, application for half pay from Sir Evan McGregor)

Individuals:

• 'A lover of justice' (anonymous letter claiming that the militia and police bills are 'totally at variance with sound legislation, to the general interests of the Island, and to the particular interests of the labouring classes');
• John Bedingfield (claim for increase of pay as private secretary to the governor);
• Thomas Bateman (requests certificate confirming his appointment as resident hospital mate at Barbados from 1813 to 1817);
• Frederick Bozon (asks if a warrant for the arrest of 'A B', alleged bigamist, can be issued at Barbados);
• J Chippendale (asks if Lieutenant George James Evelyn, Royal Navy, holds any government position in Barbados);
• Major Colthurst (wishes to inspect reports made by him as special magistrate [with 120 page extract from his private journal 'relating to the character and conduct of the Negro Population of the Islands of Barbados and St Vincent during their apprenticeship and for some months after the first of August 1838']);
• Thomas Downey (property left by the late Patrick or James Corcoran, asks if there is a registry of wills made by Irish men in Barbados);
• Reverend Edward Eliot (requests improved post following his resignation as archdeacon);
• Forbes, Hale, Boys & Austen (enquires into employment of Lieutenant George James Evelyn in connection with a Chancery suit in which he is plaintiff);
• Frederick Goode (requests date of termination of Commander Joseph Hamilton's appointment as stipendiary magistrate);
• Miss Grant (asks for date of latest despatches referring to Lieutenant Colonel Grant);
• Reverend W M Harte (extension of leave);
• Commander Joseph Hamilton (seeks further employment);
• Benjamin Ifill (extension of leave);
• J Maister (passage for himself, family, staff and servants);
• Edward Naish (memorial of Humphrey Jones seeking employment as superintendent of Police);
• Charles Phipps (seeks employment);
• George Smyth (asks if two men named Murray and Stewart have held public office in Barbados or elsewhere in the West Indies);
• H E Sharpe (report on governor's despatch relating to the Stock Trespass Act)