West Indies Original Correspondence, 1845, Offices and Individuals : Returns; Financial document; Memorandum; Acts and Legislation; Order; Correspondence 1845
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- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
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- English; French
- Summary
- Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals relating to the West Indies. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices: House of Commons (requests copies of last census taken with details of emancipated 'negroes' who are freeholders, requests correspondence relating to labouring population); Admiralty (forwards letter from agent attached to Clyde packet stating no assistance is given in landing mail at night, agrees that where naval lieutenants are not required on emigrant transports medical officers may bear the pendant, has issued orders for removal of the Romney from Havana, further correspondence from Clyde agent on difficulty in landing mail at night, acknowledges receipt of letter concerning packet service); Agents (repayment to Sierra Leone of salaries paid to emigration agents); Foreign Office (requests delay of West Indies mail [two items], forwards detailed letter from American minister Mr Wise at Rio on the slave trade with complaint that apprenticing liberated Africans reduces them to state of servitude, Spanish request for removal of hulk Romney , seeks answer to Mr Wise's complaints, forwards letter from officer appointed at Loanda to arrange removal of liberated Africans to West Indies, forwards Foreign Office letter to Admiralty about orders given to naval commanders to detain Brazilian slavers and land slaves at British ports and asks for governors to be instructed to receive them, further on detention of Brazilian slavers [with printed copies of circular and of Act 8 & 9 Vic Cap 122, 'to amend an Act intituled An Act to carry into execution a Convention between His Majesty and the Emperor of Brazil for the regulation and final abolition of the African Slave Trade'], forwards Parliamentary papers relating to slave trade [not in item], forwards despatch from British envoy at Lisbon concerning filling vacancies on boards of superintendence of liberated Africans, forwards report from British agent at Loanda that no liberated Africans have been placed at his disposal in the last quarter, removal of Romney , further on removal of Romney and future maintenance of liberated Africans, further letter from agent at Loanda concerning liberated Africans, request that Portuguese members of mixed commissions should be exempt from taxation); Treasury (allowances to officers serving on emigration vessels, forwards report on disposal of captured slaves sent to Rio, approval of regulations relating to removal of liberated Africans from foreign stations, employment of agents, forwards letter from Postmaster General seeking instructions for separating packet and colonial postage in Canadian and Jamaican accounts, payments for transports conveying Africans to West Indies, payment of officers responsible for sending liberated Africans from Havana, Rio, Loanda and Boa Vista, extra allowances granted to officers on emigration vessels, salaries of stipendiary magistrates in former slave colonies, payments to missionary societies from grant for 'Negro Education', repayment of expenses incurred in removal of liberated Africans from Loanda, disposal and maintenance of certain captured 'negroes' who had become 'helpless from blindness or disease', further on payments of extra allowances to officers on emigration vessels, further on maintenance of disabled Africans); Colonial Land & Emigration Office (method of defraying expenses of emigrant transports, reports of commissioners of enquiry into emigration from Sierra Leone to West Indies, regulations for removal of Africans from foreign stations to West Indies, removal of liberated Africans from Havana to West Indies, employment of Mr Barnard as agent for emigration from Africa, agrees with McClure's suggestion that mail steamers be used to convey liberated Africans from Havana, reception and care of liberated Africans at Rio and Havana, discusses arrangements for dispersing liberated Africans to British Guiana, Trinidad and Jamaica, cost of importing Africans from Rio into Trinidad and British Guiana, approves suggestion of West India Committee that governor of Sierra Leone should be authorised to grant licences for conveyance of liberated Africans, expenses connected with removal of liberated Africans from Loanda to West Indies, distribution between importing colonies of sum paid to emigration agent at Sierra Leone, questions raised by West India Committee on emigration from Africa, proposed instructions to commissioners at Havana on superintendence of liberated Africans, maintenance and care of liberated Africans at Loanda); West India Committee (acknowledges receipt of certain letters, communication between British Guiana, Trinidad and Africa following decision of governors not to renew engagement of transports Arabian and Senator, emigration from Sierra Leone); Ladies Negro Education Society (asks if surplus from compensation fund can be devoted to education, renews application for grant [with table of schools maintained]); Mico Charity (acknowledges receipt of extract of letter from stipendiary magistrate at St Lucia); Scottish Missionary Society (expresses thanks for funding but regrets that it will not continue [with copy of Colonial Office circular asking governors to press for local funding of education], statement of use of their 1843 grant); Moravian Missionary Society (expresses thanks for funding but regrets that it will not continue). Individuals: D St Audre, French Consulate General (seeks information about certain individuals [in French]); Richard Beasley (asks if Sir Thomas H Warner was a governor in the West Indies in 1820); Joseph G Bailey (seeks information about two individuals); J Bales (seeks address of James Stork); Patrick Carey (estate of Laurans Nowlan); Madame Dorlie (claim in respect of services rendered by her late husband in Guadeloupe or Martinique [two items; in French]); Henry Hill, Slave Compensation Office (seeks future employment); Auguste Joseph (asks for memorial to be forwarded to French minister for colonies); J H Milner (establishment of penal settlement); John McSwiney (application for employment [two items]); Lieutenant Robert McClure, superintendent at Havana (letter to agent at Jamaica, 49 'emancipados' placed at his disposal, shortages of labour, removal of liberated Africans, letters to governors of British Guiana and Trinidad, instructions for distributing Africans, quarterly return of liberated Africans, further on 'emancipados' [two items], conveyance by contract steamers, the Romney [four items, with return of Africans], numbers of migrants sent to Jamaica [four items], approval of his actions, return of liberated Africans, accommodation for liberated Africans, his resignation); C P Robert (seeks employment); Mary Sproston (her father's property); Lord Sandon (seeks information for Liverpool West India Association); Richard Shee (estate of his uncle); John Vernon (sugar cane, island of Sombrero); Mr Waldroud (property of Mr Corry). With circulars on postage accounts, reports of stipendiary magistrates, slave trade convention with Brazil, grant for education, and communications with governors.
- Subject(s)
- Other Subject(s)
- Slavery and Emancipation
- Apprenticeships and Indentured Labour
- Crime and Punishment
- Finance and Economy
- Law and Governance
- Dominica
- Demerara
- Cayman Islands
- British Virgin Islands
- British Honduras
- British Guiana
- Essequibo
- Berbice
- Barbados
- Bahamas
- Antigua
- Anguilla
- Bermuda
- Grenada
- Leeward Islands
- Turks and Caicos
- Trinidad
- Tortola
- Tobago
- Jamaica
- Suriname
- St Thomas
- St Lucia
- St Croix
- St Christopher (St Kitts)
- Nevis
- Montserrat
- St Vincent
- Note
- AMDigital Reference:CO 318/164.
CO 318. - Original Version
- Reproduction of: West Indies Original Correspondence, 1845, Offices and Individuals, 1845.
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- The National Archives, UK
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