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Title Rules and Regulations of the Liverpool Society for the Registration of Merchant Shipping
Date 1 June 1841
Document Type Printed Extract
Publisher Information Thomas Carter, Mail Office, Liver Court, South Castle Street, Liverpool
Reference CO 384/68
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence
Description Includes the constitution of the society, funds, rules for classification, rules to be observed in building ships and a form of certificate of classification for a ship.
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) Ships and Shipping Lines
Keywords shipping, ports, merchant shipping, shipbuilding, legislation
Additional Information This document is part of CO 384/68 from The National Archives, UK.
Language English
Original Volume Emigration. General Miscellaneous, 1841. Commissioners, Public Offices etc.
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