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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Emigration. General Miscellaneous, 1841. Commissioners, Public Offices etc. |
| Date | 1 Jan 1841 - 4 Jan 1842 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript |
| Reference | CO 384/68 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence. |
| Description | Miscellaneous correspondence from public offices on the sale of Crown Lands in the colonies, requests for emigration returns, crown agent expenses and notes on shipping registration. Includes a report on the necessity of amending the Passengers' Act. |
| 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; Ireland |
| Country (to) | Canada; Australia; Leeward Islands; Bahamas; Antigua; Sierra Leone; Trinidad; British Guiana; New Zealand |
| Places | South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Australia; New Brunswick, Canada |
| Ports | Liverpool, London, England; Leith, Greenock, Scotland; Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Londonderry, Sligo, Ireland; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Port Phillip, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | English; Scottish; Irish |
| People | Murray, Sir George; Lord Sandon (Ryder, Dudley); Earl Russell (Russell, Lord John); Lord Palmerston (Temple, Lord Henry John) |
| Keywords | emigration, assisted emigration, government, colony, family, Passengers' Act, finance, Poor Law, exploitation, religion, wages, army, Royal Navy, shipping |
| Additional Information | This volume includes searchable printed documents. |
| Language | English |
| Printed Documents in this Volume |
Blank Ship Return Form Passengers' Act. Report of Land and Emigration Commissioners, On Necessity of Amending The Passengers' Act The Ten Commands Church State Colonization Confederacy Outlines of a New System of Emigration, on a Vast and Progressive Scale, Which May Enable the Poor to Obtain a Comfortable Establishment in the Country of their Own Choice: With Remarks, Showing That Such a Measure is Necessary, to Improve the Colonies, to Relive Existing Distress at Home, and to Avert the Calamities that Result From an Excessive and Ever-Increasing Population Plan of Parochial Colonization Rules and Regulations of the Liverpool Society for the Registration of Merchant Shipping Papers Relative to the Affairs of Trinidad and to the Affairs of British Guiana |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
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