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Miscellaneous

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EMIGRATION AND THE LAND

AND EMIGRATION BOARD.

In 1819 a grant of £50,000 for emigration to the Cape of Good Hope was approved of by the House of Commons, but it was not included in the Appropriation Act of the year nor does the The earliest money seem to have been spent. grants for emigration seem to have been £86,760 in 1821, and £15,000 in 1823 for emigrants from the south of Ireland to Canada and the Cape. In 1825 £30,000 was granted for the same object. In 1827 a grant of £20,480 was made generally for emigration from the United Kingdom, which included £10,000 for surveys and inquiries in Canada.

The first appearance of an emigration estab- lishment on the Imperial Votes is in 1834, when £1,457 was provided for seven half-pay lieu- tenants, who were appointed emigration agents at Liverpool, Bristol, Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Limerick, and Greenock, respectively, with a salary of £208 58. each, being £150 and £58 58. the difference between full and half pay. grant was the nucleus of a vote which rapidly grew, reaching at one time £25,000 per annum, and which continued to appear in Class 5, year by year from 1834 to 1877-78 inclusive.

This

The Colonial Land and Emigration Depart- ment was created in 1840. The germ of it is to be found in a Commission appointed in 1831 by Lord Ripon to enquire into the question of emigration, of which Mr. Elliot, afterwards Sir F. Elliot, was secretary. After the close of the Commission of 1831, Mr. Elliot continued as a member of the Colonial Office to conduct the correspondence connected with emigration, and in 1837, on his return from Canada, he was named Agent General for Emigration. In 1840, as above stated, the first Board under its late title was appointed, consisting of Mr. Elliot, Colonel Torrens, and Mr. Edward Villiers. In

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