Catalogue description Correspondence from offices (government departments and other organisations) and...

Correspondence from offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters relating to British Guiana.

Offices:

• Foreign Office (disturbances on Venezuela frontier, free state of Counani, escaped French convicts from Cayenne, Venezuelan boundary demarcation, Brazilian boundary and custody of documents, seizure of the sailing boat Urabanti by Venezuela, Brazilian boundary arbitration, Brazilian-Venezuelan boundary);
• Home Office (postponement of execution of sentence, regulations on explosives, post of Assistant Superintendent and Chief Warden of the Penal Settlement);
• India Office (payment of remittances of returned Indian emigrants);
• Board of Trade (rules under the companies ordinance no 98, tax amendment ordinance);
• Treasury (legal tender of silver);
• Local Government Board (quarantine convention ordinance);
• British Cotton Growing Association (cotton cultivation);
• General Post Office (mail service tenders, West Indies mail service);
• Colonial Nursing Association (appointment of matron of Georgetown Hospital);
• Board of Education (revised draft scheme for training teachers);
• Georgetown Chamber of Commerce (West Indian mail service);
• South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye (appointment of a normal master);
• West India Association of Liverpool (immigration ordinance);
• English Church Union (burial of persons dying in Bartika Hospital);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (mail service);
• West India Committee (amendment of the immigration ordinance, strike and riot);
• New Colonial Company Limited (dismissal of an overseer from the plantation Mara);
• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (health report of T H Harrop-Williams);
• Customs Office (forfeiture of consignment of Bay Rum and Florida Water);
• The Argosy of Georgetown (riotous behaviours of pork-knockers: mal-treatment of police);
• Dublin Castle (petition of David Clarke);
• New Colonial Company (riot);

Individuals:

• A H Alexander (removal of immigrants from an estate);
• H de R Barclay (his case);
• F M Carbin (remuneration for boundary work);
• Reverend J B Crapper (East Indian settlement);
• J Conrad (railway concession from Bartica to Polaro);
• W Jameson Calder (appointment as District Inspector of Police);
• Sir G W des Voeux (deductions from salary between 1863 and 1869);
• Captain H de Salis (resignation);
• Essequibo Exploration Company (rubber concession);
• Mrs Annie Fowler (grant on death of her husband);
• H A Frere (prison regulations);
• Sir M Foster, Sir J Barlour and Sir P Manson (bacteriologist);
• Captain R H C Fenton (colonial re-employment);
• Guiana Gold Company Limited (gold dredging concession);
• Captain G G Gilligan (appointment as Assistant District Officer at Somaliland);
• C Hunter (petition for railway concession);
• Sir H Irving (case of Henry Barclay);
• Reverend F P L Josa (employment during leave);
• H E McCulloch (dismissal);
• Captain W M Russell (resignation of appointment as Sub-Inspector of Police);
• J Steele (spirits ordinance 1905, Supervisor of distilleries);
• J H Sloane (case of Mr McCulloch);
• Reverend H J Shirley (police reward fund and Sunday opening of rum shops);
• H W Scouce (censure of the Secretary of State);
• Simpson and Company (railway concession from Bartica to the Brazilian frontier);
• Swann, Bradley and Company Solicitors (Mr Hunter's application for railway concession);
• Sandback Tinne and Company, Liverpool (disturbances at Georgetown);
• W Uthwalt (concession to Hatton Garden Diamond Syndicate, concession to Franklin T Sutherland);
• Sir Edward Wingfield (management of Demerara railway);
• B N Wale (Normal and Agricultural Master);
• J H H Williams (retirement on pension).