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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Entry-Books of Correspondence: Letters to the Colonial Office. Mediterranean, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, Falkland Islands, Straits Settlements, 1872-1876 |
| Author | Murdoch, Thomas William Clinton; Walcott, Stephen |
| Date | 18 Jan 1872 - 18 Dec 1876 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Financial Papers |
| Reference | CO 386/113 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | Colonial Office: Land and Emigration Commission, etc. |
| Description | Copies of out-letters, mostly addressed to R. G. W. Herbert, covering the administration of Crown Property, the conditions endured by indentured labourers on board migrant ships and in British colonies, the regulation of migrant shipping, demands for migrant labour, and the finances of the Oriental Mining Company. An index is included at the end of the volume. |
| Series Description | This series contains original correspondence, entry books and registers of the Agent General for Emigration, the South Australian Commissioners and the Land and Emigration Commission. Amongst the miscellaneous contents are registers of births and deaths of emigrants at sea 1854-1869, lists of ships chartered 1847-1875, registers of surgeons appointed 1854-1894, and volumes of The Colonial Gazette 1838-1842. |
| Biographical Note / History | A Colonial Land and Emigration Commission was created in 1840 to undertake the duties of two earlier and overlapping authorities which were both under the supervision of the Secretary of State. These were the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia, established under an Act of 1834, and the Agent General for Emigration, appointed in 1837. The new commission dealt with grants of land, the outward movement of settlers, the administration of the Passengers' Acts of 1855 and 1863 and, from 1846 to 1859, the scrutiny of colonial legislation. In 1855 it became the Emigration Commission. In 1873 the administration of the Passengers' Acts was transferred to the Board of Trade. The commission's powers were gradually given up to the larger colonies as they obtained self-government, and after 1873 its only duties were the control of the importation of Indian indentured labour into sugar-producing colonies and it was abolished in 1878. |
| Theme(s) | Politics, Legislation and Governance; Departures: Port Conditions and Organisation; Journey Conditions |
| Country (from) | China; India; Japan; Singapore; Malta; Argentina |
| Country (to) | Cuba; United States; Malaysia; Peru; Tunisia; New Zealand; Sri Lanka; Australia; Philippines; British Guiana |
| Places | Labuan, Straits Settlements, Malaysia; California, United States; Queensland, Australia; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar |
| Ports | Macao, Hong Kong, Swatow, China; Madras, Calcutta, India |
| Nationality | Chinese; Indian; Asian; Maltese; European |
| Ships | Corona; Rosita Rene; Glenlyon; Aratoon Apear; Fitzpatrick |
| People | Herbert, R G W; Lord Kimberley (Wodehouse, John); Earl Granville (Leveson-Gower, Granville George); MacDonnell, Sir Richard Graves |
| Keywords | land sale, land price, land grant, land, finance, money, emigration, legislation, mining, coolie, indentured labour, labourer, labour, journey conditions, regulations, agent, administration, health and sickness, sanitation, surgeon, food, victualling, surveying, diplomacy, death, disease, overcrowding, assisted emigration, shipping, small pox, hospital, medical examination |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
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