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Title Emigration. General Miscellaneous, 1849
Date 5 Jan 1849 - 14 Jan 1850
Document Type Correspondence; Manuscript
Reference CO 384/84
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence
Description Documents regarding emigration from the United Kingdom including correspondence of members of the Colonial Office and Foreign Office, documents on the Passengers' Act of 1849, documents regarding passage health and safety and the Ninth General Report of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners.
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
Country (to) Australia; Canada
Places Liverpool, England
Nationality English, Irish, Scottish
Ships Jane
People Lord Howick (Grey, Henry); Watson, John; Thomas, Slack; Elliot, Sir Thomas Frederick; Hawes, Benjamin; Merivale, Herman
Keywords emigration, colony, petition, settlement, land, travel, passenger, government, assisted emigration, money, ship, health and sickness, journey conditions
Additional Information This volume includes searchable printed documents.
Language English
Printed Documents in this Volume Colonial Land and Emigration Commission. Ninth General Report of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, 1849
Light's Patent Life-boat, Buoys, Belt, and General Marine Buoyancy Company
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