Catalogue description Indian indentured labourers; further despatches about planters' treatment of Indian...

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Details of CO 101/124/19
Reference: CO 101/124/19
Description:

Indian indentured labourers; further despatches about planters' treatment of Indian indentured labourers and whether they can find a qualified person to undertake duties of Immigration Agent; Administrator Baynes states that he has carried out Secretary of State's instructions, 'reprimanded the Immigration Agent severely for his neglect of duty in not enforcing the provisions of the Immigration Act relating to the sanitary care and protection of the Cooly Immigrants'; Immigration Agent's [George Gun Munro] explanation of his conduct; Immigration Agent reports application from proprietors of Belmont for removal of Indian indentured labourers; Attorney General's opinion on the proceedings against the proprietor of Mount Alexander Estate for breach of Immigration Act; further letter from Immigration Agent about legal proceedings. See CO101/123/45, 8358/1866; CO101/124/14, 11853/1866 and CO101/124/17, 35/1867.

Edwin D. Baynes, Administrator of Grenada, forwarded by James Walker, Governor of Windward Islands, Grenada No. 364, Folios 194 - 210.

Date: 1866 Dec 15
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: 524/1867
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Open on Transfer

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