Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from the Emigration...

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from the Emigration Board, the West India Committee and individuals relating to the West Indies and immigration. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices:

• Emigration Board (reference to various immigrant ships, which sail from Calcutta to Trinidad, British Guiana, Jamaica, St Vincent, Grenada, includes figures of those onboard, with proportion of females and mortalities; immigration agent reports for British Guiana, St Vincent, Trinidad; published pamphlet Emigration to the Argentine Republic [including colour maps of settlements]; payment request from Mr Anderson, emigration agent for Jamaica at Calcutta; documents relating to memorial from certain planters in Grenada against Mr Munro, immigration agent [not in item]; St Lucia Ordinance 'to provide for the passages to India of certain Indian immigrants in return for their residence in the Colony'; return migration; reference to charter party of the Edwin Fox and non-employment of ship for emigration; legislation relating to immigration and immigrants in Grenada, British Guiana, St Lucia, Nevis, St Vincent; travelling expenses; return passages; request for Chinese immigration to British Guiana; emigrant surgeons; request for migrants to Jamaica; reference to inducements to postpone departure of 'time-expired' migrants in St Kitts [St Christopher]; rules for appointment of recruits; relations between 'Creole women' and Indian and Chinese immigrants; time period for emigration; request for migrants to Trinidad; question of migration to Trinidad and British Guiana of liberated Africans; sanitary conditions of migrants in Grenada; attempted kidnapping of Indian women; returns of mortality onboard ships; emigration agent applications; emigration from China; criticisms of emigration procedures; ill-treatment of two female immigrants in Trinidad; scheme for European immigrants to Brazil; re-indenturing of migrants; opening of Spanish emigration depot in Canton; remuneration of emigration agents; emigration returns; compulsory rationing of intra-migration from one colony to neighbouring colony);
• West India Committee (emigration from China).

• William M Anderson, agent general of emigration for Jamaica (capitation fees and gratuities; application for allowance; further on gratuities);
• Denis M Gallagher, immigration agent, British Guiana (application for appointment as emigration agent for British Guiana at Calcutta [with draft immigration Bill and other enclosures]);
• James Thompson (immigration legislation);
• J Willis (gratuity due to Mr Anderson for emigrants landing in Jamaica);
• George Young (immigration legislation for British Guiana).

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