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

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from the Emigration Commission relating to the West Indies. Subjects are as follows:

• regulations by Indian authorities on migration;
• Chinese migration to British Guiana and Trinidad;
• migrant recruiters;
• immigration expenses and legislation in Trinidad;
• kidnapping;
• clothing for migrants;
• reference to various migrant ships which sail from Calcutta to Trinidad, British Guiana, and Jamaica with numbers of those onboard, proportion of females, and mortalities;
• immigration agent reports;
• return migrants;
• British Guiana agency at Canton;
• migration to Cuba;
• planters;
• report of protector of emigrants at Calcutta;
• immigrant wages;
• time period for emigrant embarkations;
• immigration legislation;
• wages and 'advantages' which migrants may expect;
• 'irregularities' on board the Dover Castle;
• resumption of emigration from Madras;
• immigration expenses;
• request from St Vincent for indentured migrants;
• returns of migration to West Indies and Mauritius;
• proportion of female to male Indian immigrants;
• emigration from Britain to Brazil;
• 'unsettled' state of affairs in Argentine Republic;
• advantages of Swatow as a post for emigration agency;
• return migrants on the Harkaway- difficulties put in their way in corresponding with their families in India;
• difficulties in finding migrants for Jamaica;
• discrepancy between census and immigration office returns;
• proposed emigration from Liverpool to Brazil.

Topics

Clothing

International

Migration

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Americas

Census

Africa