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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 |
Document(s) linked to |
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 1. Eastern and Australian Despatches Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 2. British Guiana and Trinidad Despatches 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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