Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from 'offices' (Government...

CO 318/165

1845

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on labour migration to the West Indies. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Colonial Land and Emigration Office (General Ship Owners Society enquiry re regulations, pay and conditions, rules established in Trinidad, agent at Madras, Indian legislation to regulate migration, additional information from agent at Madras, supply of migrants to West Indian colonies, preferred vessels for use as migrant ships, acknowledges receipt of letters reporting despatch of migrants, difficulties in providing ships, emigration expenditure, suggestion that emigration from Madras should commence from 1 September because of climate, migrants sent back to India from British Guiana, tenders for shipping, advertisement for tonnage [with printed copy of tender], contract concluded by Captain Wilson, arrival of migrants from Calcutta at Jamaica and British Guiana, shipping schedules [with dietary scales], further on shipping, arrival of 225 migrants at Trinidad, offer of bonus, have engaged additional vessels, memorandum for information and guidance of agents in India, further schedules of shipping, payment from Trinidad, wages, whether ships should take on water at St Helena, additional rules, defective state of a long boat, further guidance for agents, payment by receiving colonies, migrants recently arrived in British Guiana and Trinidad, further report from Captain Wilson, remarks by commander of the Success, Wilson's request to increase allowance to sub agents, report on condition and conduct of migrants to Jamaica, accounts from India, account for surveying emigrant ships, further report on migration from Madras, auditing of accounts, shipping, loans, further report from Wilson, amendment of Indian legislation, migrant ships, comments on Wilson's reports, statement of main legislation);
• West India Committee (comments on migration, Wilson's possible removal to Bombay, chartering of ships, receipt of contract, need for additional shipping);
• William Burge, agent for Jamaica (fewer migrants sent to Jamaica, shipping, House of Assembly report on migrant labour);
• T Caird, agent at Calcutta (has employed certain ships, has despatched ships, his accounts, number of emigrants to Mauritius, refusal of ships to take migrants to destinations other than Guiana, has employed six ships, schedules of ships, complaint from Trinidad of unfitness of certain migrants, instructions issued to commanders and surgeons);
• Captain Wilson, agent at Madras (his proceedings, expenses, amended financial instructions, wages and conditions [with draft of contract], accounts, pay and conditions in different colonies, will conduct despatch of migrants in manner required, correspondence with local authorities, shipping, arrangements made in UK, forwards correspondence with auditor and treasurer, migrants for the Nestor, legal proceedings taken, outbreak of cholera, forwards correspondence, petition to Government of Madras, no further vessel procured, lengthening of emigration season, procurement of migrants, suggestions made by commander of the Success, states that further vessels have arrived);
• India Board (communication from East India Company [with various enclosures including printed copy of Act passed by the governor general of India 'for regulating the emigration of the native inhabitants of the territories under the Government of the East India Company to Jamaica, British Guiana and Trinidad'], further communication from the Company);
• Treasury (rates of exchange, new appointment of stipendiary magistrate at Trinidad [two items], expenses of emigration, approves payment of allowance to emigration agent at the Port of London for survey of ships, sum advanced from Madras Treasury [two items]);
• House of Commons (requests certain papers);
• George Baillie (his account for emigration purposes);
• Brooke & Wilson (procurement of shipping);
• Mr Benbow MP ('hill coolies' for Jamaica);
• Jane Bowly (resolution of anti slavery meeting held in Gloucester against labour migration);
• Robert Eglinton & Company (Mr Baillie's account);
• R Peek (resolution of 'a large public meeting' in Kingsbridge against labour migration);
• Edwin O Tregelles (resolution of a public meeting at Falmouth against labour migration);
• Colonial Office (memorandum on Indian labourers at Mauritius with cutting from The Friend of India).

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