Catalogue description Correspondence received from Government Departments on subjects concerning Trinidad....

Correspondence received from Government Departments on subjects concerning Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Admiralty (Oil Exploration Company of Canada concession, wireless telegraphy with British Guiana, oil prospecting, oil concessions, Pitch Lake concession);
• Emigration Agent (emoluments of W F Bolton, removal of agency premises from Calcutta [map enclosed of the Port of Calcutta], emigrants for Dutch Guiana, report of the Protector of Emigrants 1907, agency for Immigration League of Australia, Mr Bolton's salary and house and Gharry allowance, bill for £39 9s 6d, Emigration Accounts of 1907-08, pension conditions, land for new agency premises at Calcutta, apportionment of agency expenses, application of Surgeon Superintendent Welsh);
• Crown Agents (loan, migrant vessels, floating dock concession, General Loan and Inscribed Stock Ordinance and Public Works Loan Ordinance, requisition of 20,000 two dollar notes, Ordinances 18 and 19 of 1908, position of Miss Griffiths, Trinidad Dock and Engineering Company, bill for £39 9s 6d, petition of Miss Todd for assistance, Dock and Engineering Company, Riot Commission 1903 Evidence, case of A E Milne Government Scholar);
• Foreign Office (telegraph communication with Venezuela, foreigners in Venezuela, goods for Maracaibo, trade with Venezuela, traffic with Venezuela ports, claim of T C Gordon, restrictions on exports from Venezuela, Netherlands and Venezuela, Mr Henderson's claim against the Venezuelan Government);
• Home Office (draft Factory Ordinance, Petroleum Ordinance, pension of C W Meaden Superintendent of the Convict Depot);
• India Office (Moslem prisoners, site of Emigration Agency at Calcutta);
• Medical Adviser (Sir E Northcote);
• Parliament (Port of Spain Waterworks (amendment) Ordinance, Government Railway, Indian migrants on cocoa plantations and wages, immigration of Indian workers, prosecutions of Indian immigrants, criminality among Indian immigrants, unofficial members of the Legislative Council, cost of introducing Indian labour, telegraph communication with British Guiana, Venezuelan restrictions on exports for Trinidad, evasions of Immigration Ordinance, indentured labour);
• Board of Trade (telegraph communications with Venezuela);
• Treasury (copyright returns, British silver coins as unlimited legal tender, imperial pension of R H McCarthy, notes of commissioners currency);
• War Office (Captain E L Wheeler, Tobago and military lands and buildings [with plans]).