Catalogue description Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from Miscellaneous Offices...

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from Miscellaneous Offices on matters relating to British Honduras. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices:

• House of Commons (Privy Council judgment in Mr Dillet's case);
• Admiralty (more frequent visits of Royal Navy ships to British Honduras);
• Crown Agents (Jubilee medals, establishment of sponge fisheries at Belize);
• Council Office (Mr Dillet's appeal, Currency Order in Council of 12 July, Vice-Admiralty Court Fees Order in Council, sentence of Hogging for larceny, Mr Dillet's imprisonment);
• Treasury (draft Currency Order in Council, withdrawal of troops, rate for cashing of Post Office orders);
• Foreign Office (treatment of persons of British origin in Bay Islands, conventions with Guatemala and British obligations, settlement of Mexican boundary question, Mexican Government and Santa Cruz and Tulum 'Indians', Mexico-Guatemalan boundary, the Bonacea riots in 1884 and the imprisonment of Mr Edward Bonnor, Mexican boundary, Guatemalan boundary, amendment of the Mexican boundary convention, granting of land in British Honduras to Bay Islanders, arrival of 380 West Africans at Panama, desire of 'Indians' for British annexation, Guatemalan Road question, Mr Fowler's reply to the Santa Cruz Indians, the relations between Mexico and Guatemala, proposed visit of Mr Jerningham to Mexico, case of Mr Edward Bonar, quarantine at New Orleans on passengers from British Honduras, pardon of Jose de la Santos, movement of Mexican Government against Santa Cruz 'Indians', general amnesty in respect of political offenders, complaint of the Government of Guatemala of encroachment);
• War Office (withdrawal of troops, military contribution, employment of soldiers as servants, clothing for Constabulary, supplying of arms to the 'Indians');
• Belize Estate and Produce Company (trespass by 'Indians' upon the land of the company, withdrawal of troops);
• Colonial Defence Committee (withdrawal of troops);
• General Post Office (establishment of parcel post with the United States).