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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Emigration. General Miscellaneous, 1840. Commissioners, Public Offices and A to Z |
| Date | 18 Nov 1839 - 31 Mar 1841 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript |
| Reference | CO 384/62 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence |
| Description | Correspondence of the Emigration Agent James Stephen, the Home Office, the Treasury and the House of Commons regarding emigration. Also includes documents and reports of the Land Board regarding Trinidad, Barbados, Dominica and Malta. |
| 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 |
| Places | Jamaica; Bahamas; Honduras; Barbados; Dominica; Malta; Perth, Western Australia, Australia; Windward Islands; Trinidad |
| Ports | Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia |
| People | Queen Victoria; Earl Russell (Russell, Lord John); Elliott, Sir Thomas Frederick; Villiers, Sir Edward E |
| Keywords | emigration, government, land, finance, poor law, poverty, land grant |
| Additional Information | This volume includes searchable printed documents. |
| Language | English |
| Printed Documents in this Volume |
Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons. No. 1 Copies of the Commission Appointing T. F. Elliot and Robert Torrens, Esquires, and the Honourable Edward E. Villiers, Land and Emigration Commissioners. No. 2 Of the Instructions Assessed by Lord John Russell to the Land and Emigration Commissioners. No. 3 Of a Commission Revoking the Existing Commission of the South Australian Commissioners, and Appointing Robert Torrens and T. F. Elliot, Esquires, and the Honourable Edward E. Villiers, Colonization Commissioners for South Australia New South Wales and Port Phillip General Order for Military and Naval Personnel Estimates. etc. Miscellaneous Services For the Year Ending 31 March 1841 Correspondence Relative to The Colonial Land and Emigration Board. British Guiana, Bahamas, Trinidad, Jamaica |
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