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Title Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 3. Jamaica, Windward Islands and Miscellaneous Despatches
Date 6 Jan 1882 - 26 Feb 1883; 2 Feb 1885
Document Type Correspondence; Manuscript
Reference CO 384/140
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence.
Description Correspondence from the Immigration Departments in the West Indies. Included in these letters are details about general administration such as staff appointments, salaries and funding, as well as many letters regarding draft bills and legislation. This document also contains a number of letters regarding reports on the conditions maintained by the immigration department in St Vincent.
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; Remigration
Country (from) Jamaica; St Lucia; St Vincent; Grenada; Barbados; St Helena; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Mauritius; Honduras; British Guiana
Country (to) Jamaica; St Lucia; St Vincent; Grenada; Barbados; St Helena; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Australia; Mauritius; Honduras; British Guiana
Places Table Bay, Pietermaritzburg, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Kingston, Jamaica
Ports Calcutta, Madras, India; Natal, South Africa
Nationality English; Indian; Chinese; Sinhalese
Ships Sheila; Poonah; Howrah; Chetah; Middlesex; Aliquis; Merchantman; Hereford; Syria; Silhet; Lightning; Leonidas; Bann; Solent; Devonshire; County of Renfrewshire; Castle Howard; Eugenie; Coven Castle; Travancore; Newcastle; Umvoti; Glenroy; Mars; Canada
People Lord Kimberley (Wodehouse, John); Musgrave, Anthony; Robinson, Sir William; Longden, Sir James Robert; Earl of Derby (Stanley, Sir Edward Henry); Wingfield, Edward
Keywords murder, legislation, Indian Emigration Bill, water, small pox, health, sickness, fever, cinchona febrifuge, labour, marriage, crime, wages, rations, land grants, skilled migration
Language English; Hindi
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Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 4. Offices and Companies
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 5. Agents, Individuals and Surgeons [Part 1]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 5. Agents, Individuals and Surgeons [Part 2]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 5. Agents, Individuals and Surgeons [Part 3]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 5. Agents, Individuals and Surgeons [Part 4]
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