Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from the House of Commons,...

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from the House of Commons, Agents, India Office, Foreign Office and the Emigration Commission relating to labour migration to the West Indies:

• House of Commons (requests returns showing numbers in West Indies of immigrants and liberated Africans, similar return for Mauritius and return showing return migration);
• Agents (bill of exchange drawn by Mr Jeffrey, emigration agent at Calcutta for the government of British Guiana in respect of amount payable to time-expired Indian indentured labourers per Ganges on account of deposits made by them in Demerara; other bills of exchange for emigration agents for Trinidad, Jamaica, and British Guiana; application for authority to pay Dr Holman £428; passage money for return immigrants to Calcutta on ship Harkaway and accounts of deposits made by these return migrants; application for authority to pay Dr Ireland £372; application for authority to pay Dr Winstone £356; request from colonial secretary of Jamaica for acceptance of bill; clothing for Indian migrants for British Guiana; Trinidad and British Guiana accounts of finances for emigration commissioners; application to accept a bill for £544 1s 0d referred to in letter from Mr Anderson, emigration agent at Calcutta for Jamaica);
• India Office (revised dietary scales for Indian emigrants while on board ship and while in depot; permission requested by emigration agent to sell bills on open market; renewal of emigration from India to Grenada and instruction to emigration agent at Calcutta for Jamaica to 'collect and despatch' 318 emigrants to Grenada; instructions regarding contagious fever on emigrant ships; mortality on board Alnwick Castle; returns of numbers of immigrants and return migrants to Madras, Calcutta [not in item]; reference to ten Chinese emigrants given free return passages from British Guiana who had arrived in Calcutta and proceeded to Hong Kong in the steamer Hindoostan; reference to alleged kidnapping of women in India for Jamaica; conduct of surgeons, diet, proportion of females to males, numbers of children in respect of emigration from India to British Guiana and other British colonies; limits for numbers of emigrants embarking in a season; provisions on emigrant ships; reference to cashing bill for expenses connected with Jamaican emigration agency at Calcutta; 'wife murders' in British Guiana; new rules from Lieutenant Governor of Bengal for recruitment of Indian indentured labour; newly arrived immigrants in Grenada; copies of emigration laws and rules and further papers to be sent to government of India; correspondence from India about excessive mortality on certain immigrant ships to British Guiana and other questions connected with emigration; letter from Honorary Secretary of the Strangers' Home for Asiatics, London, and despatch from Duke of Argyll to India, engagement and treatment of certain persons from India employed as 'sweepers' on board vessels conveying emigrants from India to the West Indies; emigration to Nevis; complaints made by Indian migrants returning from St Lucia and St Vincent forwarded by Government of India; reference to return of Indian migrants from Jamaica to India; reports that the government of Bombay has been requested to obtain necessary information respecting character and habits of 'liberated African slaves' at Bombay and Aden; Mr Loxdale of Liverpool's letter addressed to Mr Chambers of Thomas Daniel and Company and communication from Chambers to emigration board concerning statements on injurious effects to emigration from India to the British West Indies [correspondence not in item]);
• Foreign Office (failure of the Henley colony at Rosario, Argentina, with reference to 'Indians'; reference to 'raids of Indians upon the settlement of Bahia Blanca'; immigration report for 1870 with extract from Buenos Aires Standard; insecurity of life in Argentine Republic; recent enquiry on position and treatment of Indian indentured migrants in British Guiana; proposed colony on banks of San Javier river in province of Santa Fè; reports of on emigration from China; letter from President of Argentine Emigration Commission to his government on subject of operations of the agents of that commission in foreign countries; contagious fever on board emigrant ships; Rosario law relating to taxation exemptions; communication from French government with reference to reopening of negotiations with Chinese government in regard to indentured migration; scheme for introducing European colonists into Brazil through intervention of Anglo-Brazilian Bank);
• Emigration Commission (reference to various immigrant ships which sail from Calcutta to Trinidad, Jamaica, and British Guiana including statistics of those on board with proportion of females and mortality rates; failure of colony established by Mr Henly at Rosario; clothing for return migrants from Jamaica to Calcutta; estimate for Indian immigration to Trinidad; dietary scales issued by Indian government for emigrants while in depot and on board ship; despatch from governor of British Guiana referring to alterations in manner of conducting emigration from India proposed by Indian government; correspondence with governor of Windward Islands on subject of emigration of labourers from Barbados to Tobago and St Lucia; six months' leave of absence from Calcutta for Mr Warner; reference to defalcation and dismissal from service of Mr Brown, emigration agent of St Vincent, and appointment of Mr Doyley in his place; return of Indian migrants to India from Jamaica; Trinidad legislation prohibiting allotment of new immigrants to any estate on which mortality has exceeded 7 per cent and question of extending provision to other Indian migrant receiving colonies; Jamaican provision of funds for return passages or bounties; return of immigrants and liberated Africans introduced into British West Indies and Mauritius from the year 1843 to 1856, and in each year since 1 January 1857 to end of 1870 and also return of numbers who have returned during same the period; return migration from St Vincent; differences in remuneration allowed to surgeons and others in emigrant ships; returns of emigrants going to British or foreign colonies in 1870 from Madras, Dondicherry, and Rarical, with return migration details, including amount of savings they brought back with them; reference to notice of dangers for settlers at Bahia Blanca; half yearly report from Munro, immigration agent of Grenada [report not in item]; despatch from governor of British Guiana reporting execution of two men, one a 'creole' and the other an Indian immigrant for murder of women 'with whom they cohabited', also refers to alleged attempt at kidnapping women as emigrants for Jamaica; report of commission appointed to inquire into charges brought by Mr Des Voeux against the former governor of British Guiana and the sub-immigration agents, medical officers, planters and estate managers in regard to their treatment of Chinese and Indian immigrants [Printed for Parliament, 5 August 1872]; Chinese emigration to British Guiana and Trinidad; Nevis migration legislation; reference to 1870 report of sub-intendant of Crown Lands for Trinidad, explaining measures taken to encourage settlement of Indian immigrants in the island).

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