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Title Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1882. Volume 5. Agents, Individuals and Surgeons [Part 3]
Date 1882
Document Type Correspondence; Manuscript
Reference CO 384/142
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence.
Description The third part of a four volume document containing correspondence from agents, individuals and surgeons. This volume includes letters to and from Agents from India and individuals. Subjects discussed include the difficulty in securing labour from India, general administration such as staff appointments, salaries and pensions, as well as a large report on the quality of health and conditions at the Madras emigration depot.
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) Great Britain; Indonesia; Nevis; Mauritius; Trinidad; British Guiana; South Africa; Fiji; Réunion; Surinam
Country (to) Australia; Indonesia; Nevis; Mauritius; Trinidad; British Guiana; South Africa; Fiji; Réunion; Surinam
Places Demerara, British Guiana; Jakarta, Indonesia; London, England
Ports Natal, South Africa; Madras, Calcutta, India
Nationality Indian; Irish; English
Ships Poonah; Merchantman; Umvoti; Canada; Earl Granville; Plassy; Sheila; Ellora; Lee; North; Neva; Bann; Bayard; Howrah; Newcastle; Blue Jacket; White Eagle; Hamilla Mitchell; Queen of the East; Gipsy Bride; Gitana; Ganges; Clarence; Wellesley; Enmore; Rohilla; Ailsa; St Kilda; Aldergrove; Lightning; Silhet; Malabar; Berar
People Lord Kimberley (Wodehouse, John); Courtney, Leonard; Ashley, Evelyn; Ommanney, Sir Montagu Frederick; Firth, H.A.; Wingfield, Edward
Keywords Thiers' Automatic Ship Ventilator, Indian Immigration Bill, salary, quarantine, compounders, tax, pensions, illness, health, disability, surgeon, leper, labour, labourers
Language English
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 3. Jamaica, Windward Islands and Miscellaneous 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 4]
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