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Entry-Books of Correspondence: Letters to the Colonial Office. Australia, 1846-1847 : Correspondence
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Entry-Books of Correspondence: Letters to the Colonial Office. Australia, 1846-1847 : Correspondence.
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Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
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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 386/64.
Reproduction of: Entry-Books of Correspondence: Letters to the Colonial Office. Australia, 1846-1847 4 Dec 1846 - 26 Nov 1847.
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Description: Copies of out-letters, mostly addressed to Sir James Stephen or Benjamin Hawes, some for the attention of Lord Grey, the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The correspondence largely relates to the sale of land in the colonies, claims upon the government by migrant landowners, colonial administration and colonial finances. The development of mining and railways, the cost of funding assisted migration, and the demand for further migrants also feature. An index is included at the end of the volume.
Variant and related titles
Migration to new worlds. Module II, The modern era.
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Language
English
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October 25, 2023
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