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Page,
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From or to whom.
Despatch
No., &c.
Date.
Transmits copy of No. 55; observes that the proposal of the Indian Govern- ment in its present form does not commend itself to Mr. Harcourt; suggests that the best method of putting before the emigrant the con- ditions of the life on which he is entering would be to supply him with a summary of the immigration laws of the Colony to which he is pro- ceeding, but that such summary should not be prepared until after the visit of the officer of the Indian Govern- ment whom it is proposed to send to the Colonies.
96
68
India Office
60
To the Governors... Jamaica,
August 10
Transmits copies of Nos. 55 and 59
97
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231. British
Guiana,
194.
Trinidad,
256.
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Ditto
Fiji, 226.
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Subject.
Page.
September 20 Transmita copy of correspondence with the Government of India arising out of the recommendations Of the Sanderson Committee, and submits observations on the questions of pro- vision for settlement or return of emigrants on the expiration of in- dentures.
69
Ditto
September 20
70
To India Office
To the Government Emigration Agent at Calcutta for BritishGuiana and
Forwards copy of a despatch from India containing suggestions on questions of detail connected with indentured emigration to Fiji and the West Indies; favours the withdrawal of the obligation upon employera in Trinidad and British Guiana to
prosecute deserters, and agrees that the law of Trinidad as regards arrest without warrant can hardly be defended.
September 26 Presumes, in reply to No. 66, that the name of the Indian gentleman who
is to accompany Mr. J. McNeill, and also the dates of the proposed visits, will be communicated to the Colonial Office as soon as possible, and adds that, in the meantime, a copy of No. 66 is being communicated to the Colonies concerned.
September 30 Transmite a copy of No. 66
101
108
111
140
111
Jamaica, British Guiana,
August 10
Trinidad,
Fiji,
Conti-
dential,
States that it is undesirable that any $8
August 15
August 15
Colonial Government should commit itself to heavy capital expenditure in regard to indentured emigration in view of the increasing opposition in India to the system, and requests that this should be borne in view in the consideration of all questions con- nected with the future of coolie immi- gration in India and the Colonies.
Transmits copies of Nos. 55, 59, and GI
Transmits a copy of No. 59
71
to Mr. Mursden.
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The Governor
99
62
To Mr. A, Marsden
63
To the Government
Emigration Agent
at Calcutta for
British Guiana,
61
Ditto
€5
Ditto
Confi- dential.
Confi- dential.
August 15
August 16
Encloses a copy of No. 61
GG
India Office
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Government
Emi- gration Agent at Calcutta for British
Guiana.
99
3
September G
August 22 (Rec, Sept. 9.)
Transmits copy of correspondence with Mr. Marsden and requests views upon points raised therein and a detailed estimate of the saving to be expected from a fusion of the Agencies.
99
Agrees with the view expressed in 100
No. 59 and states that the Govern- ment of India has been asked to post- pone alteration of the form of contract until the question has been discussed, and that it is proposed to depute an officer of the Indian Civil Service and a non-official to visit British Guiana, Trinidad, Jamaica, and Fiji as suggested.
Transmits correspondence with the Government of India and the Govern- ment of Bengal respecting a suggested alteration in the manner of remu- nerating recruiters and a proposed limitation of the Agencies' recruiting
area.
Fiji, 244.
September 3 (Rec. Oct. 1.)
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To the Governors... | Jamaica,
October
275:
[1], [3.]
British
Guiana,
218:
Trinidad,
332;
| Fiji, 270.
Transmits copies of a minute and a memorandum by the Agent-General
of Immigration on the subject of No. 55 and on the report of the pro- ceedings of the Indian Legislative Council, and requests that, should the Indian Government decide to iusist on the endorsement on the agreements of the penal clauses of the Immigration Ordinance, the Govern- ment of Fiji may be given an oppor- tunity of considering the alternative of eliminating all penal clauses from the Immigration Ordinances and in- cluding them in general Ordinances. Transmits a copy of No. 66
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The Governor
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Jamaica, September 20
315. (Rec. Oct. 8.)
101
2.391
120
Transmits a copy of a minute from the Protector of Immigrants respecting the higher recruiting fees paid in respect of East Indian labourers re- cruited for Jamaica; draws attention to the disadvantage at which Jamaica is placed in this matter and suggests that the expenses incurred annually should be pooled and an average cost arrived at for each Colony.
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