IOR/L/PJ/3/1091 No.2

The collection contains the following papers:

• Letter from the Government of India, Home Department, dated 7th January 1863, stating that a Bill was under preparation for the purpose of giving effect to the suggestions contained in previous Despatches relating to emigration from India to British and Foreign Colonies
• Arrival at Calcutta of Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, appointed by Her Majesty to be an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor General of India
• Communication addressed by the Protector of Emigrants at Calcutta to the Government of Bengal, relating to the Report of Dr Pearse on the voyage of the ship Alnwick Castle with Emigrants to Trinidad, and the opinions expressed by him as to the causes of mortality on the Calcutta Emigrant ships
• Notification of the Viceroy, the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, having left Calcutta for the purpose of proceeding to the North Western Provinces and other parts of India; and that Major General Sir Robert Napier had taken his seat as President of the Council of the Governor General of India, and had also assumed the office of Deputy Governor of the Fort and Garrison of Fort William
• Application by James Westland, Assistant Magistrate and Collector of Jessore, for a copy of his Covenant
• Arrangements made for the accommodation of emigrants at Pondicherry while awaiting embarkation
• Correspondence regarding the payment of a fee of 1 rupee for every Emigrant brought before the Collector or other Officer charged with the duty of passing recruits, and the objections raised by the Protector of Emigrants at Madras and the Colonial Emigration Agent to the levy of the fee in the Districts in which Emigrants are recruited, instead of at the Port of embarkation
• Arrival of Mr W Grey in India to take his seat as an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor General of India
• Papers relating to the grant in aid from the Educational Funds to the Christian Colony in Dehra Dun for the erection of a building to be used as both Chapel and School, and for the salary of a Schoolmaster
• Appointment of J A Dawson to be British Consular Agent at the French Settlement of Yanam [Yanaon]
• Report on the case of the Emigrant ship Clasmerden, from Calcutta, with Emigrants for Demerara, which put into Pernambuco [Brazil] on the 24th December 1862 in consequence of apprehensions of mutiny among the Emigrants, with related correspondence
• Papers regarding an enquiry into the causes of the unusually high rate of mortality among the return Emigrants from Mauritius on board the ship Egmont, which arrived at Calcutta on the 29th March 1863. Included in the papers is a copy of the contract between Robert W Morgan, Master of the ship, and A Chasteanneuf, Protector of Immigrants at Mauritius.
• Correspondence relating to the protests of His Excellency T Bontemps, Governor of the French Establishments in India, against the levy of the emigration fee of 1 rupee on account of Emigrants recruited for the French Colonies
• Special Narrative No.1 (Medical) of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, dated 12th May 1863, regarding the engagement of a passage to England for certain insane patients on board the ship Hougomont, with related correspondence. The names of the patients were Thomas Flatt, Joseph Woodward, Alexander McKie, Henry Roose, David Kitchener, Robert John Bonnett, Mary Annie Pearson, Eliza Moirs, Ann Monk, Ann Colgan, Richard Stavers, Alexander Theophilus Haycock, John Scott and Amelia Rutherfurd Carroll. Statements of the cases of the patients are included in the collection, except for Robert John Bonnett. Also mentioned in the correspondence is Miss E Castry, who received passage on the ship Gertrude to Mauritius.
• Special Narrative No.2 (Medical) of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, dated 27th May 1863, reporting the engagement of a passage to England for an insane patient named Mary Ann Codling on board the ship King Arthur. Includes a statement of the patients case.
• Further report on the case of the ship Clasmerden from Calcutta, with Emigrants to Demerara
• Correspondence from the Clerk of the Chief Justice of the High Court at Calcutta, respecting the Estate of Ernst Nosky deceased
• Correspondence regarding the resignation of George Frederick Edmonstone as Lieutenant Governor of the North Western Provinces from the 28th February 1863

The collection includes a copy of the following Public letters received from India:

• No.1 of 1863, dated 7 January 1863
• No.2 of 1863, dated 13 January 1863
• No.5 of 1863, dated 30 January 1863
• No.8 of 1863, dated 5 February 1863
• No.12 of 1863, dated 9 March 1863
• No.14 of 1863, dated 18 March 1863
• No.15 of 1863, dated 18 March 1863
• No.19 of 1863, dated 31 March 1863
• No.20 of 1863, dated 4 April 1863
• No.24 of 1863, dated 21 April 1863
• No.26 of 1863, dated 13 May 1863
• No.27 of 1863, dated 21 May 1863
• No.30 of 1863, dated 4 June 1863
• No.31 of 1863, dated 4 June 1863
• No.33 of 1863, dated 10 June 1863
• No.35 of 1863, dated 20 June 1863
• No.36 of 1863, dated 20 June 1863