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with the necessary wall, and of providing lines for the coolies, will be about £800, and Mr. Harcourt is prepared to sanction the expenditure of this amount. He considers, however, that no steps should be taken for the present for erecting a house for the Emigration Agent; and would prefer that Mr. Marsden should reside in a hotel and receive a lodging allowance, at any rate until the report of the Indian Commission which is visiting the West Indies has been received and considered.
12. A copy of your joint report and of this reply is being communicated to the Governors of the Colonies concerned, and also to the India Office.
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SIR,
I am, &c.,
H. W. JUST.
No. 122.
COLONIAL OFFICE to INDIA OFFICE.
WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 19th of December
Downing Street, 31 May, 1913. last.* and subsequent correspondence, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to transmit to you, for the consideration of the Marquess of Crewe, the accompanying copy of further correspondence with the British Emigration Agents at Calcutta relative to the amalgamation of the Agencies at Calcutta and Madras.
2. I am to invite special attention to the third paragraph of the letter from this Department of the 24th instant,§ with regard to the officer who will be appointed to succeed Mr. Conran at Madras.
3. Mr. Harcourt is not aware whether the Government of India have arrived at a decision in regard to the new up-country depôt.
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No. 123.
I am, &c.,
H. J. READ,
for the Under-Secretary of State.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS.
[Answered by Nos. 138, 140, 142 and 149.]
(Trinidad. No. 198.) (Jamaica. No. 148.)
(British Guiana. No. 121.) (Fiji. No. 182.)
Downing Street, 31st May, 1913.
SIR,
WITH reference to my despatch of the 20th of December last,|| I have the honour to transmit to you, for your consideration, the accompanying copy of corres- pondence with the Emigration Agents at Calcutta respecting the amalgamation of the Agencies at Calcutta and Madras.
2. I should be glad to be favoured with an expression of your views upon the proposals for granting retiring allowances to the clerks at Calcutta with whose services it is proposed to dispense, upon the proposals for taking the total expendi- ture at the close of each financial year and dividing it amongst all the Colonies which make use of the Agency, and upon any other points in regard to which you may wish to offer observations.
I have, &c.,
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SIR,
No. 124.
INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 4 June, 1913.)
India Office, Whitehall, London, S. W., 4th June, 1913. WITH reference to your letter, No. 22,576, dated the 19th December, 1912,* regarding the amalgamation of the Emigration Agencies at Calcutta and the establishment of an emigration depôt in the United Provinces, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to enclose, for the information of Mr. Secretary Harcourt, copy of a letter from the Government of India on the subject.
It will be seen that, so far as is possible, sympathy and support will be given to the Emigration Agents and their assistants, and that a special form of notification has been drawn up to apply to the cases where approval has to be given to the appointment of an Emigration Agent.
I have, &c.,
(No. 21 of 1913.)
Enclosure in No. 124.
Emigration.
T. W. HOLDERNESS.
Government of India: Department of Commerce and Industry, MY LORD MARQUESS,
Simla, the 1st May, 1913. WITH reference to paragraph 2 of Your Lordship's Confidential despatch, No. 31 (Public), dated the 31st January, 1913, regarding the amalgamation of Emigration Agencies at Calcutta and the establishment of an emigration depôt in the United Provinces under the supervision of a second Emigration Agent, we have the honour to state that the local Governments concerned have been requested to accord all possible sympathy and support to the Emigration Agents and their assistants so far as is consistent with the policy of neutrality always maintained by the Indian Government in regard to overseas emigration.
2. We also enclose a copy of the form of notification which we have directed the Government of Bengal to adopt in future when notifying their approval to the appointment of an Emigration Agent. We understand that this form will secure the alteration which Mr. Marsden suggested to the Colonial Office (vide paragraph 3 of Colonial Office letter No. 22576, dated the 19th December, 1912).
To the Most Honourable
The Marquess of Crewe, K.G.,
We have, &c.,
HARDINGE OF PENSHURST.
GUY FLEETWOOD WILSON. HARCOURT BUTLER. SAIYID ALI IMAM.
W. H. CLARK.
R. H. CRADDOCK.
E. D. MACLAGAN.
His Majesty's Secretary of State for India.
L. HARCOURT.
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