Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: West India Immigration: correspondence...

CO 318/258

1870

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: West India Immigration: correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices:

• House of Commons (Colonial Office minute sheets only; correspondence missing);
• Crown Agents (bills of exchange drawn by emigration agents at Calcutta; gratuity due to Mr Jeffrey on account of 611 emigrants landed from the Wiltshire, Mr Jeffrey's report that he has drawn on them a demand for £11,122 5s 10d in favour of the Oriental Bank Corporation on account of monies deposited in the Treasury Chest of British Guiana by immigrants who returned to Calcutta in the ship Ganges; salary of Mr Anderson, Immigration Agent at Calcutta for Jamaica; state of British Guiana account with Agents- reports bill of exchange received; payment for cost of clothing to be sent to Calcutta for use of Indian emigrants to British Guiana; bill of exchange drawn by treasurer of Jamaica for Messrs McDowell and Barclay, Merchants of Kingston; intention of Mr Jeffrey, Emigration Agent for British Guiana at Calcutta, to draw a bill on Crown Agents; payments to Surgeon Superintendents who accompanied immigrant ships Wiltshire, Cochin, Java; bill of exchange drawn by Mr Anderson, Immigration Agent at Calcutta for Jamaica; bill to Crown Agents from Colonial Secretary of Trinidad; request from India Office for re-payment of a sum of £19 5s 9d advanced by the Government of India to the Protector of Emigrants at Calcutta, for payment to certain returned emigrants from St Lucia; Act passed by Trinidad for raising funds for immigration; deaths of eighty persons on board the ship Shand during voyage from Calcutta to Demerara);
• India Office (forwards letter about deceased Indian migrant called Sew Lal [not in item]; alterations in quantity of lime juice for emigrant ships from Calcutta and clothing for infants; report by Dr Bakewell, Health Officer of Shipping in Trinidad, on causes of sickness and mortality in Indian indentured labour ships; Emigration Board report; copies of notification of duty to report all unusual occurrences seriously affecting health and safety of emigrants; despatch from Government of India containing reports from Bombay, Madras and Bengal on the working of the rule fixing the proportion of female emigrants at 40 to 100 males [not in item]; renewal of immigration from India to Grenada; copy of letter from Mr Des Voeux, administrator of St Lucia, relative to condition and treatment of Indian and Chinese immigrants in British Guiana, with related enclosures [not in item]; despatch from Government of India relative to the rule fixing the proportion of female emigrants at 40 to 100 males; letters about arrival in British Guiana of immigrant ships India, Arima, St Hilda, Devonshire, Shand and Sophia Joakim and the excessive mortality which occurred on board these vessels [not in item]; increase of emigration fees; time of year for embarkation at Calcutta- proposal from Immigration Agent at Trinidad that it should be middle of February; statements showing mortality; medical guidance regarding contagious fever on emigrant ships; emigration returns and immigrant savings; report of the afficiating protector of emigrants at Calcutta; execution of Indian immigrants at Demerara; maintenance of proportions of female emigrants; new rule relating to water on emigrant vessels);
• Treasury (no objection to Trinidad Ordinance raising funds for immigration);
• Foreign Office (emigration from the United Kingdom to the Argentine States; condition of the settlements formed in Santa Fé by foreign colonists; insecurity of life in Argentine provinces; proposal for foundation of English colony in Argentine republic; translation of a Brazilian decree relating to Asian immigration; Mr Henley's colony near Rosario);
• West India Committee (expresses surprise and regret over proposal to appoint a commission to institute inquiries concerning the Indian immigrants in British Guiana;
• West India Association, Liverpool (resolution protesting at Des Voeux's charges against employers of labour and others in British Guiana);
• Emigrant and Colonist's Aid Corporation Limited (their prospectus; report of Emigration Commissioners on proposed colonisation scheme; further on scheme for colonisation in Argentine Confederation).

• W A Cairns (offers his services as one of the commissioners to enquire into condition and treatment of Indian and Chinese immigrants in British Guiana);
• Dimsdale Fowler (state that they act purely as printer for the Emigrants and Colonialists Aid Corporation Limited and have no control over their proceedings);
• W Grant (opinion of service done by Mr Anderson);
• Gregory Rowcliffes & Company (state that their client, Viscount Bury, never allowed his name to be used as trustee of the Emigrants and Colonialists Aid Corporation Limited);
• Kimber & Ellis (Emigrants and Colonialists Aid Corporation Limited and propositions made by them to the Argentine Republic);
• Duke of Manchester (acknowledges receipt of communication from Sir F Rogers);
• J Pfeil (acknowledges receipt of correspondence relating to proposed plan for colonisation submitted to the Argentine Government by the Emigrants and Colonialists Aid Corporation Limited).

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