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Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Immigration. Correspondence relating...
Catalogue reference: CO 318/265
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This record is about the Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Immigration. Correspondence relating... dating from 1872 in the series Colonial Office and Predecessors: West Indies Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 318/265
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1872
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Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Immigration. Correspondence relating to the West Indies from the Foreign Office. Subjects are as follows:
- British Guiana emigration agency in China;
- Chinese migration to British Guiana;
- migrant labour in Danish and French colonies;
- Chinese migration to Lima;
- Spanish emigration agency in Canton;
- Chinese migration;
- emigration from Britain to Brazil;
- Indians in Buenos Aires;
- insecurity of life in Argentine Republic;
- migration to British Guiana;
- request from Portugal for information about regulations on free labour in British colonies;
- indentured migration;
- proposed British emigration agency at Canton or Swatow;
- 'insecurity of the province of Rosario owing to raids of Pampa Indians';
- prospects of emigration to Paraguay;
- regulations in British colonies respecting treatment of immigrants;
- Netherlands regulations on migration to Surinam;
- projected immigration of Chinese into Cuba;
- immigrants into Brazil.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C998645/
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