Entry-Books of Correspondence: Letters to the Colonial Office. Australia, 1843-1844 : Correspondence.

Description: Copies of out-letters, the majority to Sir James Stephen or G. W. Hope, some for the attention of Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The correspondence largely relates to the sale of land, individual claims upon the government from colonial landowners, shipping c...

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Main Authors: Elliot, Thomas Frederick, Sir, 1808-1880 (Author)
Lefevre, Sir J G S (Author)
Wood, C Alexander (Author)
Corporate Author: Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) (digitiser.)
Language:English
Published: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
Subjects:
Politics, Legislation and Governance
Motives for Emigration
Colonisation Companies and Emigration Societies
Journey Conditions
London, England
Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, Australia
New Zealand
Earl of Derby (Smith-Stanley, Sir Edward)
Gipps, George
Franklin, Sir John
Hutt, Governor William
Grey, Sir George
Arthur, Colonel George
Stirling, Admiral Sir James
Stephen, Sir James
Bank of England, New Zealand Company, eligibility, exploitation, surveying, child migration, female emigration, assisted emigration, emigration, Bounty Emigration, land sale, land price, agent, New Zealand Company, finance, money, passage money, religion, Protestantism, Catholicism, morality, quarantine, South Australia Company, claims, land grant
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Description: Copies of out-letters, the majority to Sir James Stephen or G. W. Hope, some for the attention of Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The correspondence largely relates to the sale of land, individual claims upon the government from colonial landowners, shipping companies and colonial governments, colonial administration, bounty emigration, the regulation of migrant shipping, and the migration of suitable persons to the colonies. An index is included at the end of the volume.
Note:A Colonial Land and Emigration Commission was created in 1840 to undertake the duties of two earlier and overlapping authorities which were both under the supervision of the Secretary of State. These were the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia, established under an Act of 1834, and the Agent General for Emigration, appointed in 1837. The new commission dealt with grants of land, the outward movement of settlers, the administration of the Passengers' Acts of 1855 and 1863 and, from 1846 to 1859, the scrutiny of colonial legislation. In 1855 it became the Emigration Commission. In 1873 the administration of the Passengers' Acts was transferred to the Board of Trade. The commission's powers were gradually given up to the larger colonies as they obtained self-government, and after 1873 its only duties were the control of the importation of Indian indentured labour into sugar-producing colonies and it was abolished in 1878.
AMDigital Reference: CO 386/61.
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