Catalogue description Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and...

Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (provisional order for Mr A C Ponsonby under the Oil Mines Act, report of cases of yellow fever);
• Crown Agents (a Bill ['dummy sheet' only; correspondence not in volume]);
• Foreign Office (commercial convention with France [with printed copy of convention], case of James Jackson sentenced to eight years imprisonment and fine on a charge of burglary in Brazil [with very lengthy enclosures in English and Portuguese], Immigration of Paupers (Prevention) Act and its relation to Dutch Guiana, sugar industry, British subjects in Panama Canal Zone, case of Adolphus Coulson [or Coulsen] convicted on murder charge at Panama, bills of health at Funchal);
• Board of Trade (Acts 20 and 21 of 1907 relating to electricity supply);
• Treasury (trial of Adolphus Coulsen at Panama, military lands and buildings);
• War Office (military lands and buildings);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (inter-colonial mail service);
• London School of Tropical Medicine (pellagra: request for pathological specimens, observations on the disease);
• Exchequer and Audit Department (grant in aid of the sugar industry);
• General Post Office (Post Office Amendment Act);
• Law Society (Law examinations);
• British Cotton Growing Association (disinfection of imported cotton seed);
• Direct West Indian Cable Company (reports that no messages in relation to the outbreak of yellow fever at Barbados and among the crew of HMS Indefatigable reached them at Jamaica for transmission via Bermuda);
• Charity Organisation Society (distressed Barbadian seaman Mr H D Cumberbatch);
• Mr F M Alleyne (Major Chown, defence of the West Indies);
• Lord Ian Basil Gawaine Temple Blackwood (accepts appointment as colonial secretary of Barbados);
• Deacon, Gibson, Medcalf & Marriott (provisional order in favour of Mr A C Ponsonby under the Oil Mines Act);
• Samuel Brewster Goddard, former police sergeant (petition against his dismissal in 1901);
• Muller, MacLean & Company, New York (complains of conduct of governor in connection with the purchase of a phonograph);
• Mr R B Roden (declines offer of appointment as registrar and magistrate);
• Rawle, Johnstone & Company (indebtedness of Mr W H Stoker);
• Strickland & Sons, Pearce & Sons, and C E Flavell (claims against Mr W H Stoker);
• Mr W H Stoker (explanation as to his indebtedness, applies for post of colonial secretary or other administrative appointment, payment of his leave salary);
• Mr S H Warren (enquiry about marriage formalities and fees)