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 123/122, CO 123/123, and CO 123/124. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices: Foreign Office (boundary of Mexico; new map of Mexico; Mr Laurent - French Consular Agent; 'Indian' chief Canul - proceedings; convention for settling boundary of Mexico; J E Mutrie - appointment as Consul; convention between British Queen and Guatemala; boundary of Mexico and 'Indian' raids; raids of 'Indians' and Mexicans); Land Board (claim of British Honduras Land Company to certain land at Port Consigo; sale and lease of land); Law Officers (Act for speedy removal of persons deemed danger to the peace); General Post Office (mail services with England; money order account; mails between Liverpool and Belize - amount due; mail communication); Board of Trade (Act relating to import duties; Act relating to trading companies; Act relating to law of partnership); Treasury (armed vessel for defence; postal arrangement; cost of construction and maintenance of armed steamer; money for relief of crew of French ship St Nazaire - payments; postal subsidy; Crown Fund account; postal communication via New Orleans); War Office (admittance of private George Buck into Colonial Hospital; reference to account of a mission sent to an 'Indian Chief' at Santa Cruz in Yucatan in 1861; defence of the colony; withdrawal of troops; Captain Delameu's appointment as temporary Magistrate); Individuals: W Houghton (lithographing and printing maps); James Plumridge (Mr Price's mission to Yucatan); Henry Read (health and leave of absence); William Read (his son's health); F Seymour (boundary between British Honduras and Guatemala); Captain Twigge (mission into Yucatan); James R Tomlin (acknowledges receipt of letter with names of members of Assembly).