Catalogue description Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Offices and Individuals. Letters from...

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 123/115, CO 123/116 and CO 123/117. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices: Admiralty (ship of war for Belize due to increased communication between ports of confederate states and Belize; naval protection for Omoa; 'Indians' on the frontier; vessel for defence of the colony; gun boat for colonial use; formation of vice admiralty court); Privy Council (Order in Council; appeal case - Hodge versus Attorney General); Foreign Office (application of commercial agent of the United States regarding the stoppage of the Agnes until master should disavow any intention of running the blockade of the confederate ports; seizure of the United States schooner, J S Geretzy; confederate agents; case of the Chesapeake; relief to crew of the St Nazaire; ship of war at Omoa; disturbances by 'Mexican Indians'; British envoy to Mexico; purchase of arms for Guatemala government; request from Prussian ambassador for death certificate of John Drosio; Prussian consul appointed; request from Swiss confederation respecting person called Henri Oschwald); Land Board (disposal of Crown Lands; appeal - Attorney General versus Hodge); British Honduras Company Limited (Hodge versus Attorney General; naturalisation of white migrants from Southern states of North America; defence of the colony; mail packet route; money order system); General Post Office (detention of mail packet; money order system; ship letter postage; payment of money orders; postal service with England - less expensive service); Colonel Phipps (request of police magistrate Cockburn to dedicate a lecture to Prince Alfred); Board of Trade (import duties; act relating to court of inquiry into cases of wreck and casualty); Treasury (John G Austin's passage allowance; Frederick Seymour's passage allowance; postal communication with Jamaica; relief to crew of the St Nazaire; erection of bungalow at Corosal; main road through colony; import duties; currency; defence of frontier against 'Yucatan Indians' by American steamer; new postal service; armed steamer for colonial service; sea wall near Government House; barracks at Carosal); War Office (reinforcement of the garrison; additional accommodation at Corosal; volunteer rifles; assistance in building church at Corosal; case of Private Benjamin Pratt; expense of sending reinforcements to Corosal). Individuals: E V Arbuckle (letter for Mr Austin); Major Andrews (appointment of magistrate for northern district); Captain Baxter (appointment of magistrate); G Holmes (Captain Holmes - colonial secretaryship); F Seymour (passage allowance; Mr Price's proceedings with Yucatan 'Indians'; Captain Holmes - unfit for colonial secretaryship).