Colonial Secretary Guide - Flipbook - Page 335
-33335.
Copies of letters sent re Immigration, 10 February 1836 - 31 December 1879
7 vols
Copies of letters to surgeon superintendents of convict ships and surgeons of the Royal Navy; the
Emigrants' Friend Society; the Board appointed for investigating claims to bounties for emigrants;
to individuals; to the Superintendent of Emigration; the Emigration and later Immigration Agent
and the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners. By 1849 almost all the letters were
addressed to the Agent for Immigration, and from June 1864 to February 1896 are continued in a
separate series (37).
The letters to the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners are continued in the next series
(36).
36.
Indexes:
In front of volumes
Location:
4/3705-12; microfilm copy AO Reels 2857-2859
Shelf List:
See Appendix p. 355
Copies of letters to the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, 11 May 1849 17 November 1875 2 vols
Copies of letters to the Commissioners who have been appointed in 1840 for the "management of
the sales of land in the British Colonies, and for promoting a well regulated emigration to them".
A board of commissioners of emigration had been set up in 1831 charged particularly with
arranging the emigration of "unprotected Females". This work was subsequently done by
committees and in April 1837 T. F. Elliot who had been secretary to the commissioners, was
appointed agent general for emigration and made responsible for the general superintendence
and control of emigration from Great Britain. In January 1840, Lord John Russell appointed the
Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners replacing both the Agent General and South
Australian colonization commissioners. It was charged with collecting and disseminating
accurate information on the colonies, with the sale in Great Britain of colonial waste lands and
with the application of the proceeds of these sales to the expenses of emigration.
37.
Indexes:
In front of volumes
Location:
4/3713-14; microfilm copy AO Reel 2860
Shelf List:
See Appendix p. 355
Copies of letters to the Immigration Agent, 3 June 1864 - 13 February 1896
2 vols
The volumes include instructions to the agent on matters relating to immigration; and letters
dealing with appointments, acknowledging notifications of the arrival of immigrant ships,
financial matters and so on.
The earlier letters are to the Department of Lands, immigration being one of its functions in the
sixties.
Letters to the Agent from 1836-64 are in series 35 and those to him on the subject of quarantine,
1837-55, in 65.
Indexes:
In front of volumes
Location:
4/3715, 4/4776; microfilm copy AO Reel 2860
Shelf List:
See Appendix p. 355
