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Title Emigration. North America and Miscellaneous, 1839. Agent-General Elliot, Public Offices and A to Z
Date 2 Jan 1839 - 9 Jan 1840
Document Type Correspondence; Manuscript
Reference CO 384/52
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence
Description North America documents including complaints regarding emigrant vessels, remarks on Buchannan's report and information on the Passengers' Act.
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) Canada
Places Liverpool, England; Dundee, Scotland
Ships Colborne; Waterloo
People Lord Lyveden (Vernon-Smith, Lord Robert); Earl Russell (Russell, Lord John); Hawes, Benjamin; Stephen, Sir James; Baron Taunton (Labouchere, Henry); Murdoch, Thomas William Clinton; Marquess of Normanby (Phipps, Constantine Henry); Buchanan, Alexander Carlisle
Keywords journey conditions, Passengers Act, ports, ships, health and sickness, tax, finance, military, employment, Liverpool Dock Committee
Additional Information This volume includes searchable printed documents.
Language English
Printed Documents in this Volume Respecting Emigration to the Colonies
Reports and Correspondence Respecting the Colonies
North American Colonial Association
Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons. Copies of Any General Report, Since the Last Laid Before this House, From the Agent General for Emigration
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