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Title Emigration. Australia, 1840. Volume 3. Miscellaneous. Public Offices and A to Z
Date 3 Jan-31 Dec 1840
Document Type Correspondence; Manuscript
Reference CO 384/60
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence
Description Correspondence from government offices regarding emigrant ships, the sales and appropriation of crown and waste land, stores and military settlement. A-Z correspondence largely letters requesting aid in emigrating from labourers and military men.
Series Description This series contains correspondence relating to British settlement in North America and Australasia, and to Indian indentured labour in the West Indies. Until 1857 it consists of domestic letters alone. The series then ceases and is not resumed until 1872.
Biographical Note / History A Colonial Land and Emigration Commission was created in 1840 to undertake the duties of two earlier and overlapping authorities under the supervision of the secretary of state: the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia and the Agent General for Emigration. In 1855 it became the Emigration Commission. The commission's powers were gradually given up to the larger colonies as they obtained self-government, and after 1873 it was responsible only for controlling the importation of Indian labour into sugar-producing colonies. It was abolished in 1878 and an Emigration Department was then set up in the Colonial Office. This department was merged with the General Department in 1894, and abolished altogether in 1896.
Theme(s) Politics, Legislation and Governance
Country (from) Great Britain
Country (to) Canada; Australia; New Zealand
Places Paisley, Glasgow, Scotland; New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Scottish, Swedish
Ships Crescent; Florist; Bussorah Merchant; David Clark; Glen Huntly
People Earl Russell (Russell, Lord John); Vernon- Smith, Lord Robert; Stephen, Sir James
Keywords emigration, finance, land, crown lands, settlement, military, ships, agent, emigration society
Additional Information This volume includes searchable printed documents.
Language English
Document(s) linked to Emigration. Australia, 1840. Volume 1. January to April. Commissioners Elliot, Torrens and Villiers
Emigration. Australia, 1840. Volume 2. May to December. Commissioners Elliot, Torrens and Villiers
Printed Documents in this Volume Land Revenue in Australian Colonies
At Paisley, and Within the Philosophical Hall, the 29th Day of June, 1840, at a Meeting of the Paisley Canadian Emigration Society
Unto the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, Her Majesty's Principle Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Moral of the Undersigned Merchants, Bankers, and Ship Owners in Glasgow
The New Zealand Journal
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