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

Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 321/19, CO 321/20, CO 321/21, CO 321/22, CO 321/23, and CO 321/24. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (men of HMS Eurydice imprisoned in Barbados; visit of Governor to various islands in HMS Tourmaline);
• Agents (Central Sugar Factory Company, St Lucia; government land leased to St Lucia Central Sugar Factory; construction of new water works in Grenada);
• Council Office (removal of prisoners between St Vincent and Tobago);
• Board of Trade (distressed British seamen in Barbados; Captain of the Mary Anne Johnstone);
• India Office (Manel's heliograph);
• Treasury (petition of Rev H B Skeete; application of G Munro as Revenue Officer; Copyright Bill; mail communication);
• Foreign Office (extradition of three Americans from Barbados);
• Home Office (fees charged upon process in criminal cases; Ordinance No 1 of 1878);
• War Office (proposed appointment of Lieutenant Governor as Colonel Commandant of Volunteer Corps; Mr G Risk; Major General Gamble; arms and ammunition for volunteers);
• Post Office (detention of the mail packets by the Lieutenant Governor of Grenada);
• Colonial Office (supply of Hansard to the 'lesser islands');
• West India Committee (system of flashing signals);
• Royal School of Mines (mineral specimen from Grenada);
• West India Committee (McCall and his tenants, interference from Lieutenant Governor);
• Customs (St Vincent Ordinance No 26 of 1878);
• West India Committee (Betsy's Hope Estate, Tobago [Indian indentured labourers]);

Individuals:

• C G Campbell (medical appointments);
• D Chadwick (Grenada water supply);
• H W Estridge (application for appointment as auditor);
• C G Graham (mineral specimen from Grenada);
• T D Hill (members of the House of Assembly, Barbados);
• Harley (public protests in Grenada against proceedings of governor; Grenada water works construction);
• R W Harley (complaint of Mr Ward against Lieutenant Governor; Mr Risk; omission of Messrs Simmons, Ward and Beckwith from revised commission of the peace; revenue and expenditure; financial statement; draft medical ordinance; remuneration);
• W Manford (resignation);
• S J Proctor (medical application);
• J Rose (code of civil procedure);
• J J Reece (his suspension from office);
• C Risk (amalgamation of surveyorships of Districts A and B in Grenada);
• G Strahan (composition of the Legislative Council; removal of Scott Tucker from post of Superintendent of Public Works; renewal of certain expiring acts; death of Mrs Strahan; poor relief in Barbados; writs for a new election; accommodation of 'lunatics' from St Vincent and Tobago; duties of Chief Justice while on leave; government representation bill; medical appointments; commissionof the peace - appointments and removals);
• John Henry Ward (complaint against the Lieutenant Governor of Grenada; expenditure on government works).