Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in 1832. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:
Offices (Government departments):
- House of Commons (Assembly Committee report into present situation of sugar planters, copies of patents of land; proclamations issued during 'rebellion'; orders for papers regarding enslaved persons George Ancle and Samuel Siveney, and abolishing whipping of 'females'; Bishop's reports on the religious instruction of the 'Coloured and Slave population' and of the number of churches; latest information on 'rebellion'; Manumission returns 1817-1830 ; abstract of laws relating to churches and chapels, etc; return of teachers and preachers connected with the 'Missionary establishment'; return of Africans from Jamaica, Assembly proceedings to prevent the importation of enslaved persons, admission of 'slave evidence', 'Slave' births in Barbados and Antigua, Council Slave Report; return of enslaved peoples killed in uprising, minutes of evidence taken on trials of enslaved persons and punishments issued; trial of Ancle and Siveney, Law for abolishing whipping 'females'; Assembly Committee report into uprising; return of 'African Creoles' on 76 estates in Trelawny; withholding assent to Act imposing duties on importation of 'slaves'; letter to Bishop on religious instruction of 'negroes', minutes of evidence on trial of Williams, punishment of two female enslaved persons belonging to Mr Jackson, statements of the Baptist Missionary; return of the numbers and ages of African and Creole population; sundry Slave Returns);
- Admiralty (persons accompanying Lord Mulgrave; Mulgrave appointed vice admiral; convoy taking Mulgrave will take Belmore; assistance offered by Navy in suppression of the 'insurrection'; regiment from Barbados to Jamaica; Commodore Farquhar for an explanation regarding letter on late uprising; passage of Belmore; payment of Belmore's passage during uprising; allowance for entertaining Sir Willoughby Cotton; passage of a poor woman and her three children; further to Commodore Farquhar; inconvenience of Bishop's claim to the accommodation of ships of war; additional battalion from Bermuda; disposition of squadron to check any 'disturbances');
- Agent (wishes appointment of House of Lords Committee at insistence of Government; applies for Assembly Report; apprehension of continuance of Martial Law; Bishops' correspondence regarding Ecclesiastical Estate in Jamaica; papers for Committee on West India Affairs; detention of mail; requests interview with Lords Grey and Goderich; intended motion to be made in the House; addresses of Assembly; financial difficulties of Jamaica; repayment of the loan under Relief Bill; relief of island; doubts regarding certain Acts of the Legislature of 1830 and 1831; proceeds of certain duties to secure repayment of the principal and interest loan; remarks on Transient Traders Act; requests interview for Messrs Barrett and Hodgeson; Barrett and Hodgeson represent grievances);
- Commander in Chief (regiments from Bermuda; measures adopted for 'suprressing the rebellion'; barrack hospital accommodation; increasing military force; inconvenience of Cotton not being appointed lieutenant governor; assistance in emergency from Bermuda; claim of Patch to pension);
- Council Office (order to prepare commission; appointment of Attorney General O'Reilly, to the Council)
- India Office (receipt of correspondence sent in error);
- Foreign Office (complaint of the governor of New Granda [Columbia] regarding libels printed in Jamaica Gazette; comments on reported overtures from Jamaica to US government);
- Home Office (transportation of Horatio Sandys and A Simpson; disappearance of Fort Willcock);
- Law Officers (opinion on case of freedom of religious worship amongst protestant worshipers);
- Ordinance (transfer of barracks; repairs for barracks; transfer of barracks to Ordinance Department; estimate for erection of barracks at Lucea; tents for troops; ordinance stores and tents);
- Treasury (seizure of schooner Bristol at Prot Royal; Bishop's bill; island checks for military supplies; settlement of Mr Grenville's claim; Mr Ross' bill; provision for troops; claim of Mr Stewart for payment for work in House of Commons; sum charged for land carriage of baggage; repairs to barracks, island checks; seizure of goods of American schooner; accounts required of the finances and revenue; report from Relief Commissioners; sums paid over military chest for repairs to barracks; payment of troops; suspension of Mr Fawcett, Customs; security of loan; salary of clergymen; Bishop's bill);
- Miscellaneous Offices (Post Office: packet regulations; North and South American Association: Mexican packet; Post Office: tranquillity of island; Slave Registry: returns of 'Africans and Creoles' belonging to 76 estates in Trelawny; West India Association: 'slave insurrection', detention of packet).
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