Further Papers Respecting East-India Labourers (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1842 Excerpt: ... Letter from Government of India, 4th May, 1839. 27. The statement marginally cited will exhibit to your Honourable Court No. XI. the number of labourers exported from the Tanjore district during the months of August, September, and October last. 28. Your Honourable Court will perceive from the letter and enclosure marginally cited, t that between the 1st August, 1834, and the 31st October, 1838, 12,994 men, 198 women, and 51 children, had been introduced into the colony of the Mauritius. 29. The Right Honourable the Governor in Council at Madras requested to be informed whether it was the intention of the Supreme Government to exempt from postage letters to and from the Indian labourers who had emigrated to the Mauritius, and, if so, under what arrangement the indulgence was to be extended. The same information was required by the Government of Bombay. SO. It was stated to the Governments of Madras and Bombay, in reply, that the letters of emigrant labourers to their families might be sent in a cover to the Secretary in the General Department, whence, if properly addressed, they would be forwarded to the district officers, to be delivered to the emigrants' families as occasion might offer. 31. Your Honourable Court will perceive by the letter from the Colonial Secretary at Mauritius marginally adverted to, -; that, pursuant to the desire expressed in our resolution of 11th July, 1838, a Committee was appointed in that colony, to inquire into the state and condition of the Indian labourers who had Statement shewing the number of Coolies which have been exported from the Negapatam Port in the district of Tanjore, during the months of August, September, and October, 1838: --No. XI. had emigrated thither, and to report upon the several points on which we were Let.