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(2) substituting some alternative system of remunerating recruiters for the present arrangement of paying them a per caput commission on their recruits,

we beg to refer to the observations of the Secretary of State for the Colonies in paragraphs 4 and 5 of his despatch under reference. We trust that effect may Le given to his wishes, and that no action on either of these two points may be pressed for until the new depôt has shown by one year's practical working to what extent it may be anticipated that the objects which have led to its establishment will be attained.

3. In connection with the proposal to restrict the recruiting area, however, we would request detailed information as to what districts precisely are to be under-

No. 3894-55, Government of India.

stood as being comprised in the Eastern Emigration.

Districts of the United Provinces," referred to in addressed by your Department to the Government of Bengal on the 18th May, 1912, paragraph 2 of the marginally noted letter Were the area in question confined to North and South Behar, and the three divisions of Gorakhpur, Benares, and Faizabad, as suggested in paragraph 77 of the Report of Lord Sanderson's Committee on Emigration, the Colonial Agencies would be deprived of several of their most important sources of supply, such as Bareilly, Cawnpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Agra, Muttra, &c. It will be seen from the enclosed return that the total number of persons registered as intending Colonial emigrants in all districts during the last five years was 67,854, of which no fewer than 28,514, or about 42 per cent., were registered outside the area suggested by the Sanderson Committee. It would certainly be many years before such a heavy deficit could be made good by any stimulation of recruiting in the reduced area that could reason- ably be expected to result from the establishment of the new depôt; and, even if Delhi, Ajmere, and the Central Provinces are eliminated as being inconveniently remote, we should still be faced with a shortage of approximately 34 per cent. of the numbers we have hitherto obtained.

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4. One other point arises in connection with the amalgamation of the Agencies on the lines indicated in the Secretary of State for the Colonies' letter to the Emigra tion Agent for British Guiana of the 19th December last, which forms one of the enclosures to his despatch under reference. It will be observed that he intimated in paragraph 7 of that letter that it had been decided that Mr. Marsden should reside at Faizabad in charge of the new depôt, and, in paragraph 10, that the Madras Agency should be placed under the charge of an Assistant Agent, who would be made responsible to the Emigration Agent at Calcutta. In asking for recon- sideration of this decision, Mr. Gibbes has pointed out as one objection to it that inasmuch as Section 10 (1) of Indian Emigration Act XVII., of 1908, provides that an Emigration Agent" shall be appointed “in each port of embarkation alteration of the existing law would apparently be necessary if an Assistant Agent only were to be appointed to the Madras Agency; and he has also indicated the possibility that the Madras Government may decline to concur in such an appoint- ment on grounds of the inconvenience and delay that might conceivably arise in the transaction of official business if the Agent responsible for the local Agency were resident at Calcutta, 1,000 miles away. It seems to us desirable to ascertain at once, before permanent arrangements are made for giving effect to the amalgamation proposals, whether the Governments of India and Madras are disposed to concur in the allocation of officers to Faizabad and Madras, respectively, as proposed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies; and we request that we may be favoured with definite information on this point at the earliest possible date.

We have, &c.,

R. P. GIBBES,

Government Emigration Agent for British Guiana.

A. MARSDEN,

Government Emigration Agent for

Trinidad, Fiji, Jamaica, and Mauritius.

The Secretary to the Government of India,

Department of Commerce and Industry, Delhi.

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STATEMENT SHOWING EMIGRANTS REGISTERED IN DIFFERENT DISTRICTS FROM THE YEAR 1908 TO 1912 (5 YEARS).

Behar

Province,

gested by the San-

derson Committee.

Districts.

Number Registered.

Tutal.

Darbhanga

718

Gya Patna

449

1,451

Shahabad

770

Saran

175

Other Districts

301

3,864

United Province, &c., and Basti

Oudh,

7,583

Bahraich

1,614

Bara Banki

90

Restricted area as sur-

Beuares

2,138

Frzabad

9,982

Ghazipur

1,314

Gorakhpur

3,727

Gonda

7,058

Jaunpur

570

Mirzapur

56

Rai Bareilly

318

Sultanpur

577

Other Districts

720

35,777

Alipur

2.475

Calcutta

1,336

Burdwan Howrah

97

...

193

4,101

2,122

Allahabad Bareilly

3,363

933

Cawnpur

7,025

Lucknow

3,504

Muttra

1,694

Sitapur

76

area.

Unao

85

19,002

Punjab Rajputana

Delhi

4,361

Ajmere

529

Central Province

Jubalpore

177

Other Districts

43

5,110

67,854

Bengal

United Province, &c., and | Agra

Oudh.

(ANNEXURE D.)

TRINIDAD, FIJI, and Jamaica Agency Staff.

Existing

recruiting

Districts outside the suggested restricted

Names.

Capacity.

Date of First Appoint.

Pre- sent Ago.

Length of Service.

ment.

Present Monthly Salary.

Total

on each

Bemarks,

Head.

Year. Month.

Office Staff. Nocoor Chunder Pal Botoo Krishna Moo-

kerjee.

Mehadeb

Pal.

Chander

Radha Ballar Singh

Lalit Mohan Baan... Lalit Mohan Ghos

Kartic Chunder

Banerjee. Rajendra Nath Chat-

terjee.

Shorthand Typist

and

dence Clerk.

Typist

Despatcher

Chief Cashier Accountant

..

July, 1892

48

20

140 0 0

April, 1898

39

16

90 0 0

Assistant Cashier...

Assistant Account

ant. Registrar

March, 33

13

0

63 0 0

1900. April, 1905

32

8

0

35 0 0

...

May, 1903

34

11

100 0 0

August,

34

I

8

70 0 0

Correspon.

1911.

January, 06

12

3

67 0 0

1901.

September,

24

6

↑

30 0 0

1906.

536

0 0

August,

9

130 0 0

1903.

August,

10

5

8

48 0 0

1907.

Panna Lal Chunder

Feeding Clerk

January,

28

7

3

40 0 0

1906.

Harendra

Mullick.

35391

Hohan

Receiving and Vac- cination Clerk.

May, 1908

26

1

11

30 0 0

248 0 0

Depot Staff. Nogendra Nath De...

Hari Pada Chakra.

butty.

Depot Superinten.

dent. Registering Officer

*

31 2

180

Date of

Pre-

Length of Service.

Names.

Capacity.

First

Appoint- ment.

Best

Age.

Present Monthly Salary.

Total

on each Head.

Year. Month.

Hospital Staff.

Bepin Behari Moo-

kerjee.

Syed Mahomed

Husain.

Depôt Doctor

...

June, 1901 87

11

Compounder

M

May, 1908

4

ཋ-

10

120 0 0

11

38 0 0

1 Office Daftri

1 Office Bearer ...

4 Office Messengers

2 Office Sweepers

13 0 0

9

0 0

41 8 0

Remarks.