Entry-Books of Correspondence: Letters to the Colonial Office. British Guiana, 1896-1874 : Correspondence.

Description: Copies of out-letters written by T. W. C. Murdoch and Stephen Walcott, often sent to Sir Frederic Rogers, among other recipients. Most refer to the shipping of 'coolies' from India and China, the charter of emigrant vessels, the demographics of emigrants, and to the high mortality rates...

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Main Authors: Murdoch, Thomas William Clinton (Author)
Walcott, Stephen (Author)
Corporate Author: Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) (digitiser.)
Language:English
Published: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
Subjects:
Colonisation Companies and Emigration Societies
Religion, Ethnic Identity and Community Relations
Ships and Shipping Lines
Jamaica
Trinidad
St Vincent
Grenada
Antigua
St Lucia
China
Spain
Elliot, Sir Thomas Frederick
Bart, Frederic Rogers
Herbert, R G W
Bligh, Dr John W
Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward
application, emigrant, colony, government, indentured labour, immigration agent, administration, shipping, emigration, government, demographics, food, provisions, women, eligibility, neglect, journey conditions, shipping inspection, trial, death, mortality rate, steamboat, surveying, land, riot, colony conditions, law, legislation, employment, medical staff, wages, plantation
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Description: Copies of out-letters written by T. W. C. Murdoch and Stephen Walcott, often sent to Sir Frederic Rogers, among other recipients. Most refer to the shipping of 'coolies' from India and China, the charter of emigrant vessels, the demographics of emigrants, and to the high mortality rates and inquiries made into this on board vessels transporting indentured labourers. The neglect and misconduct of surgeons on board emigrant vessels is a particularly common topic.
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 386/97.
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