Catalogue description Letters from Government departments, other organisations and individuals relating to...

Letters from Government departments, other organisations and individuals relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

• Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade & Foreign Plantations (imports in neutral vessels; 'an Act (no 1516) for establishing an Inland Town on the eastern boundary of the parish of Trelawny by the name of the Stewart Town'; grant of licences to import provisions and lumber);
• G Hibbert, agent (forwards despatch received from Office of Correspondence concerning the Act to regulate the ecclesiastical regiment in Jamaica; requests copies of Journals of the House of Lords for the Council; Act for establishing an Inland Town on boundary of Trelawny; departure of next mail packet; asks if the Act for settling Stewart Town has received the royal assent;
• Commander in Chief (seeks appointment for Mr Downs; report from Captain Simon, New Providence; whether Lieutenant Colonel Smythe should remain at Honduras until his successor is appointed;
• A Sutherland (his salary; his appointment as clerk of the markets at Kingston; his enforced delay in travelling to Jamaica and financial consequences; further correspondence on the subject);
• Bishop of London (charges against Mr Donaldson);
• Treasury (Mr Downs' request for a colonial appointment; estates of the late Mrs Manning; bill drawn by Lieutenant Governor Morrison; debt due from the late Mr Manning;
• General Post Office (delay in post; capture of the packet Ann on her outward voyage to Jamaica by a US privateer of very superior force);
• Admiralty (convoying of three merchant ships laden with arms and military stores conveyed from Jamaica to Cathagena; conveyance of Lieutenant Governor Morrison; reimbursement of expenses of Captain Haynes in conveying military officers from Jamaica to Curaçao;
• Duke of Manchester (reimbursement of passage money; ecclesiastical commissaries);
• Captain L Foster (claim for expenses incurred on his mission to Havana);
• C Robinson, Doctors Commons (instrument for the appointment of commissaries; appointment of John Campbell, Thomas Rees, Thomas Warren, Francis Ricard, and R S Woodham to be commissaries to exercise all ordinary ecclesiastical jurisdiction with draft warrant and copy of 'Act for annulling so much of an Act of the said island of 21 George II Chapter 6 as gives power to the Bishop of London to exercise jurisdiction in our said island, as far as the same ascertains to the Ecclesiastical Regiment of the clergy, etc'; recommends other vacancies filled);
• W Scott (ecclesiastical jurisdiction);
• Colonial Office (ecclesiastical jurisdiction);
• James Stephen, legal adviser (permission to remove volumes of Jamaican Acts from the Colonial Office; requests additional volumes);
• William Shaw (appeal against charges against him);
• Noel de Montaynag, former lieutenant colonel in the service of the king of France (requests financial assistance to support his family [in French]);
• Privy Council Office (petition of William and Robert Mitchell for permission to ship various items for the use of the militia; petition of Messrs Strother, Smith, and Maltby claiming money owed by John Hale; Act 'for establishing an inland town, etc' passed to the prince regent for royal confirmation and remaining 28 Acts to be left their operation; licences to import provisions and lumber; further on establishment of an inland town);
• W Garrow & R Dallas, Lincoln's Inn (case of John Hale, bankrupt);
• Board of Ordinance (supply of ammunition).