Catalogue description Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and...

Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters relating to British Guiana. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Emigration Commission (report on Ordinance to regulate the indenture of apprentices);
• Admiralty (contract passages for Reverend J McGuffie, Dr Whitlock, Dr Manget, Reverend R Webber, and Reverend T Faner, expenses of passage of Sergeant Liddle, contract passages for Colonel Ready and George Dennie, claim of George Baker in respect of his service in China, passages for D Cameron, I F Bourne, W Fraser and Mrs McGuffie, cat o'nine tails for penal settlement [with extract from Queen's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions concerning corporal punishment]);
• Agents (shipment of stamping press, requisition for educational works, colonial pensions, requisition of fly press, class certificates for Government students, payment of pension to Walter Burke, further on class certificates);
• Privy Council Office (confirmation of Ordinance No 18 'Railway Stock');
• Foreign Office (extradition convention with France, request for death certificate for Prussian subject named Osterloh or Quentin who died at Essequibo, US consul Mr Edwards, fate and effects of Gerbraud Van Teylingen);
• Home Office (reports on Ordinances No 11 and 12, report on management of the penal settlement);
• Demerara Railway Company (protest by committee of shareholders, Railway Company Ordinance [2 items]);
• Church of Scotland (states that Reverend James Nimmo is unable to travel to Berbice because of his wife's health and nominates Reverend John McGuffie in his place, nominates Reverend Alexander Maclellan, Reverend Thomas Bell's objections to poor relief system, case and complaints of Reverend Thomas Bell);
• Colonial Bank (verification of governor's signature);
• General Post Office (report on Ordinance relating to intercolonial postage);
• Board of Trade (effects of George McKenzie a seaman formerly of the Helen Campbell of Nova Scotia who drowned in the Bay of Biscay [4 items], effects of David McCappin formerly of the Copia, report on Ordinance relating to annual tax, report on Demerara Gas Supply Company Ordinance);
• Treasury (copyright returns, half salary of Mr MacLeod [2 items], guaranteed loan investment account, governor's postage expenses from Barbados [2 items], superannuation for Mr MacLeod, guaranteed loan sinking fund, security of public offices, report on Ordinance relating to the estimates and annual tax, supply of bronze coin, Loan Commission bond, passage expenses of governor, loan sinking fund investments, loan of £250,000);
• War Office (claim for rations from Sergeant Major Liddle, Roger Barry's application for land grant, repair of dam of canal at Eve Leary Barracks, leave of absence for the governor's aide-de-camp Captain Beresford, leave of absence for commissioner of penal establishment Captain Kerr, removal from Demerara of the 21st Fusiliers, precedency of the colonial secretary over the officer commanding the troops, storage of ammunition);
• Reverend John James Allison (extension of leave of absence [2 items]);
• Reverend H W Austin (extension of leave);
• John Frederick Bourne (reports arrival on leave and requests return passage);
• Charles Brumell (seeks appointment as civil engineer [2 items; with printed statement of his career]);
• Mr Bynns [?] (applies for post of colonial engineer);
• Dr Evan Philip Cameron (extension of leave);
• Louisa A Cameron (seeks further grant from the Royal Bounty Fund for her mother Mrs Eliza Cameron [2 items]);
• Charles Cave (forwards extract of letter from the governor and parcel of bonds to be forwarded to him);
• John Cullen (property of the late James Mason);
• Dr Evan P Cameron (requests passage [4 items]);
• Frederick E Dampier (his leave);
• George Dennis, inspector of schools (his complaint against governor's attempt to transfer him to another post);
• Mary Ford (debt owed to her by the late Mr Wilday [2 items]);
• Reverend Thomas Farrar (requests passage);
• J D Fraser, stipendiary magistrate (requests passage);
• Reverend Alexander Ferguson (requests extension of leave);
• Sir William H Holmes, provost marshal (requests extension of leave in order to act as a special commissioner at the International Exhibition of 1862 [3 items], application for promotion, his return to British Guiana);
• G G Lowenfield (his resignation, his pension claim);
• J MacLeod (his pension claim [6 items]);
• Reverend John McGuffie (requests passage);
• Dr E A Manget (requests passage);
• Helen McGuffie (requests passage to join her husband);
• Lieutenant Colonel Ready (requests passage);
• G H Robertson (application for extension of leave [4 items]);
• Robert Short (complains that his memorial was not forwarded and about an attack on the newspaper The Colonist);
• Hugh Shaw (enquiry about the price of land in Demerara);
• Dr Hubert Carlton Whitlock, resident surgeon of the penal settlement (leave of absence, his early return);
• Reverend R L Webber (leave of absence, states ages of his children as requested).