GUIDE TO THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF TASMANIA

Section Four

RECORDS RELATING TO FREE IMMIGRATION

Ian Pearce and Clare Cowling

Hobart Archives Office of Tasmania 1975

ACCESS CONDITIONS

The records described in this Guide are on open access if they are older than 50 years. Access to those records which are less than 50 years old is at the discretion of their creating authority. CONTENTS

Introductory Note

Part A: Immigration 1816 - 1837. Part B: The Board of Immigration. Part C: Immigration 1887 - 1946. Part D: Description of Records, 1816 - 1972. Part E: Description of Records of the Board of Immigration. Part F: Appendices

1. Note on Private Societies. 2. Note on naturalization procedures. 3. Tasmanian Acts of Parliament relating to Immigration. 4. Board of Immigration Regulations. 5. Returns of Assisted Immigration, 1832-1890. 6. Assisted Immigrant Ships, 1832-1887. 7. Abstract showing the ships in which Pensioners arrived in the Colony of Tasmania as guards over convicts, with dates of arrival respectively. 8. Return of Immigrants under the ‘Youths for farm work scheme’. 9. Return of Immigrants under the ‘Household Workers’ scheme. INTRODUCTORY NOTE

This guide to records relating to immigration to Tasmania is divided into two sections. That dealing with the records of the Board of Immigration was originally intended to be issued separately as a guide to a specific record group. At the same time a survey was being made of all records relating to immigration held in the Archives Office of Tasmania. It was therefore decided to combine both projects and issue them as a general description of records relating to immigration.

For this reason there is some disparity between Parts A and C and Part B. Parts A and C are essentially general histories of immigration, whereas Part B is an administrative history of the Board, with particular emphasis on its function as a separate records-creating authority. It is because of this emphasis that the period immediately prior to the inception of the Board of Immigration is included in Part B, as the records produced during this period were taken over and used by the Board itself.

PART A IMMIGRATION 1816 - 1837

IMMIGRATION IN THE EARLY PERIOD OF SETTLEMENT.

Immigration to Tasmania prior to 1820 was discouraged rather than the reverse. Only those persons with letters of recommendation from the Secretary of State were welcomed; some persons were refused permission to land in Van Diemen's Land because they did not have these papers. 1

The first migrant ship to arrive in Van Diemen’s Land, a ship chartered by settlers James, William and Thomas Salmon to bring out their families, was the Adamant, which arrived on 20 September 1816.2 It was followed by the Harriott, with forty-five passengers in 1817, the Caroline in 1820 and the Skelton in the same year. 3

Migration/population figures jumped noticeably after 1820, with the introduction of more viable land regulations.4 During the 1820’s a great many respectable settlers arrived, bringing the letters of recommendation from the Home authorities which entitled them to land. Immigration of persons with capital was encouraged by Lieut.-Governor Arthur, who saw immigration as the servant of transportation. The convict system was based on assignment, and men of capital were needed to maintain it. Land policy in the 1820’s discriminated against the less wealthy settler, as the size of land grants was proportional to the amount of capital held. The need for a letter of recommendation to the Governor and the high cost of travel to Van Diemen’s Land also discouraged the poorer person.

As well as gentlemen farmers, retired military officers on half pay were encouraged to immigrate ‘by holding out to them, in consideration of their services, advantages superior to those enjoyed by ordinary settlers’. 5 These advantages included remission of quit rent, and the waiving of a deposit as security for the land. Instituted in 1826, the scheme also applied to Naval Officers. Retiring officers who intended to emigrate, instead of relinquishing to the Crown one third of the value of their Commission as required by Army Regulations, were permitted to receive the full value of the Commission on condition that they booked a passage on board a vessel proceeding direct to the Colony. 6 After free land grants ceased in 1831 these officers had to buy land, but a sum was remitted from the cost, in their favour, according to rank and service.7

Subsidised immigration was not undertaken by the Colonial Government in the 1820’s. Persons without capital were not encouraged, although individual settlers sometimes paid the passage fare of servants who were indentured to them until the cost of the passage was worked out. 8 The only incidence of large scale subsidised immigration in the 1820’s was that undertaken by the Van Diemen’s Land Company. Formed in 1825 by an Act of Parliament, the Company's purpose in Van Diemen's Land was the raising of fine-woolled sheep. The Company was granted 250 000 acres of land in north-western Tasmania on which to encourage farming by the encouragement of immigrants from England.9 These labourers were brought out at the Company's expense on the condition that they should not for five years after landing become dependent on the colonial finances.10 Each immigrant was indentured to the Company and given an advance on his wages on embarkation to be paid out of the first wages becoming due after arrival. Later, when the Company was desirous of letting a portion of its estates, intending emigrants with a small amount of capital were encouraged to avail themselves of the offer, although no financial assistance was proposed. 11

Some other Companies were set up in the United Kingdom, with local offices in Hobart to encourage immigration, but their activities folded quickly and there is little record of their policies. 12

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References

1. In 1819 Lieut.-Governor Sorell refused permission for a settler to return to Van Diemen’s Land (Sorell-Cimitiere 31 August 1819) Governor Macquarie also refused permission for a person to settle in Van Diemen’s Land because he had taken a dislike to him. (Macquarie- Davey 3 February 1814). See H.R.A. Series III Vol. 2.

2. Statistics of Tasmania. 1816. 3. Hobart Town Gazette 2 December 1820. 4. In 1820 Sorell received a despatch stating that in future,letters requesting land grants need not go to Macquarie, but direct to Sorell, who was to have the power to locate land. This new regulation speeded up the process of land grants. (Under-Secretary Goulburn to Lieut.- Governor Sorell, 24 July 1820) H.R.A. Series III p. 39.

5. Bathurst-Darling 1 October 1826 GO1/3 No. 74. 6. GO1/5 No. 5 Secretary of State-Arthur 23 November 1827. 7. CSO1/562/11422. 8. One such case was that of Peter Brewer GO1/30 No. 30. 9. GO1/5 p.350 Van Diemen's Land Co. Director to Hay, 3 August 1827. 10. Ibid. This condition was imposed by Goderich. 11. VDL70. 12. One such Company was the Scottish-Australia Company, established in 1822 to bring Scottish emigrants to Hobart Town and Sydney. The Company ceased to exist in 1831. Another was the Tasmanian (or Van Diemen’s Land) Joint Stock Company, of which the only record is its prospectus, published in the Hobart Town Gazette, 28 January 1825.

Sources.

1. Historical Records of Australia Series III, is the primary source of material for the period prior to 1820. It records land policy and regulations which are the clue to policies on immigration.

2. Statistics of Tasmania gives free population figures for each year and numbers of land grants. 3. Governors Office inward and outward despatches (GO1 and GO33). These despatches contain information relating to His Majesty’s Government's policies on immigration and the Colonial Government’s reaction.

4. Hobart Town Gazette. This newspaper is almost the only source of passengers and shipping lists for the period of the 1820’s.

5. Van Diemen’s Land Company Records. The most valuable are the despatches (VDL1) which contain general information on indentured immigrants.

GOVERNMENT SPONSORED IMMIGRATION, 1831-1837.

On 28 January 1831, Lieut.-Governor Arthur received a Despatch from the Secretary of State, Viscount Goderich, ordering that no more land be granted to colonists. l The reasons for this order were twofold. Firstly, large tracts of land were being alienated to persons without the means to improve and cultivate. Secondly, the system of indiscriminate land grants had not served one of the 6 purposes for which it had been instituted, namely to relieve the Mother Country of its unemployment problem: ‘No such relief can be possibly afforded by the mere removal of Capitalists . . . it is the emigration of the unemployed British labourers which would be of real and essential service.’

The concept of pauper immigration was not new. In 1823 Earl Bathurst, the Secretary of State, had suggested to Governor Brisbane that a supply of free labourers might be encouraged by His Majesty’s Government, should such a supply be called for. 3 Lack of finance was the primary obstacle to the emigration of the poor.

Goderich suggested that a scheme of assisted immigration be set up to defray the expenses of emigrants who would otherwise undertake the cheaper passage to America. 4 Money was to be raised for this purpose out of the proceeds from land sales or from finance donated by individual colonists desirous of employing non-convict servants. 5

On the 24th of June 1831 an Emigration Commission was set up in London to organize the passage of migrants to Australia. 6 Two schemes were instituted, to work concurrently. The first scheme had as its object the emigration of single females who could be employed as domestic servants by the colonists. Finance was to be raised out of the sale of land. 7 These women were to pay half their fare (approximately £8) and the Colonial Government the other half upon their arrival in Van Diemen’s Land. These women who could not afford to pay the £8 were advanced money in England by the Commissioner on condition that it be repaid from their wages. The Colonial Government was to pay into the Military Chest the equivalent amount of the monies advanced in England. This scheme was known as ‘the Bounty System’.

The second scheme was designed to encourage the emigration of married men with young families, firstly mechanics and then agricultural labourers. This was called the ‘£20 advances’ scheme. An order for payment was presented to the Master of the ship conveying the emigrant; the Master then presented it to the Colonial authorities as his claim against the cost of conveying the emigrant. 9

The proposed method of financing this scheme was the cause of a squabble between Arthur and Goderich. The latter suggested that a tax be levied upon assigned convicts and those holding tickets of leave. 10 Arthur, to whom Van Diemen’s Land was primarily a receptacle for convicts, queried Goderich’s proposal most strongly, complaining that it penalized ‘the slender funds the colonists possess of employing convict labour’. The debate as to finance continued until the advances system was discontinued; in the meantime money from land sales was used to pay for the scheme.

The Bounty System

Single women were badly needed in Van Diemen’s Land, where the disproportion of the sexes was great. 12 The first group of 200 women arrived per the Princess Royal on 6 September 1832. They were lodged on arrival at the female orphan school, and a Ladies Committee was formed to supervise them and to oversee their seeking of employment.. Applications were invited from persons seeking domestic servants, stating what wages were offered and the type of female required. 14 Most of the women found situations, but Arthur was unhappy with this first experiment in large-scale migration, as several bad and dissipated persons had been selected. Arthur wrote bitterly to Hay on this ‘most injudicious measure of associating the depraved characters from the public institutions, and I believe from the streets of London also, with women of good reputation’. 15 The selection had apparently been made by a Charitable Committee whose method was to

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approach various institutions and work houses. Arthur was promised that in future selections would be made, not by the parishes, but by a committee of volunteers ‘composed of some charatable (sic) Gentlemen of the first respectability in London’. The moral character of each applicant was to be most carefully screened. The new system was more successful; new women arrivals by the Strathfieldsay 13 August 1834, and the Sarah 14 February 1835 were of a higher moral tone and more industrious in their habits, particularly those from the latter ship. 17 More female immigrants were brought out per the Amelia Thompson 20 August 1836 and the William Metcalfe 24 January 1837.

£20 Advances Scheme

The £20 advances were, as a general rule, limited to married men. 18 At first only skilled mechanics were encouraged, but in 1834 Goderich decided to include young married agricultural labourers as well as mechanics. 19 Government agents were appointed at Liverpool, Bristol, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Belfast and Greenock to encourage would-be colonists, but Goderich warned Arthur that should the funds set aside by His Majesty’s Government for the encouragement of emigration (approximately £3,000) be exhausted, the Home Government would cease to recommend emigration to Van Diemen’s Land. 20

The £20 advances scheme was in any case running into financial difficulties. Although only small numbers availed themselves of the scheme, 21 the Colonial Government had great difficulty in obtaining a return on the advances. To remove this problem, and to encourage further immigrants, the £20 advance was, in 1835, converted into an unconditional grant, 22 and henceforth the term ‘Bounty migrant’ was applied to all assisted persons. The bounty was extended to younger members of families in 1836, the grant now being £30 for each married couple, £5 for each child aged 2 - 7, £10 for children aged 7 - 15 and £15 for girls aged 15 - 30, travelling with the families. 23

The latter bounty, encouraging young girls to travel to the colonies with families, stemmed from a suggestion made by Glenelg to Franklin in 1836. Glenelg felt that because of the moral dangers of sending out single women without protection, an experiment be made with large scale emigration of families. 24

The William Metcalfe was accordingly outfitted, filled with over 200 persons, and sent to Van Diemen’s Land, arriving on 24 January 1837. The experiment proved a total failure. The families, selected from paupers or parish relief in the United Kingdom, were penniless. Their descent on Van Diemen’s Land so glutted the labour market that most could not find employment, and were thrown back on the Government. 25 The Colonial Government decided to suspend assisted immigration until a better scheme could be adopted, 26 but in the meantime the British Government had already despatched another load of families, per the Bussorah Merchant. Upon its arrival on 12 December 1837 conditions were found to be so appalling that the passengers, most of whom were ill, had to be placed in quarantine at Sorell Creek. 27 The Colonial Government was again faced with the burden of maintaining these pauper immigrants.

Another class of immigrant destined to become a burden on the Colonial Government was the Chelsea pensioner. Chelsea pensioners were retired soldiers who were encouraged to commute their pensions in order to obtain a free passage to the colonies. 28 They received no financial assistance and were not entitled to any special privileges such as land grants or remissions of land purchase price as were retired officers under the scheme begun in 1826.

Pensioners came out to Van Diemen’s Land in the years 1832-3 on the ships Science, Cleopatra, Waterloo, Wellington, Manfield and Adelaide. They were found to be total failures as colonists. Arthur complained that they arrived with very little money, which they spent in the public houses in dissipated and

8. idle living, becoming burdens on the state. He concluded that their former dependence on the pension had prevented them from forming industrious habits, and requested that their immigration be discontinued. 29

In 1837 Lieut.-Governor Franklin suspended assisted immigration to Van Diemen’s Land. Finance had been the primary problem in the Colonial Government's efforts to relieve England of its paupers. As early as 1831 a Committee set up by Arthur to investigate the immigration question had concluded that the Colonial Government was not in a position to finance large scale immigration. 30 Money from land sales was insufficient to finance the various schemes. In May 1832 Arthur wrote to Howick in distress, stating that the Treasury was having difficulty in cashing drafts produced by the £20 advances immigrants, for money held for them in England. 31 The substitution of bounties for the £20 advances.reduced funds still further. Too many immigrants became a burden on the government, particularly after the experiment of family migration. Settlers were unwilling to take whole families into service, while higher wages in New South Wales and South Australia induced many of the jobless to leave the state, leaving the Colonial Government bearing the cost of the passage from England without receiving any benefits. 32

The type of immigrant arriving in Van Diemen’s Land did not measure up to the colonists’ wishes. Both Arthur and Franklin complained about the low moral tone and unsuitability for the type of work required, of the immigrants chosen by the British Government. The Colonial Government had no redress as it could not afford to appoint its own agent in Britain. 33 The arrival of large groups of labourers glutted the market, caused wages to fall and created dissatisfaction among the immigrants themselves. 34

In 1835 Arthur made the first request for the suspension of immigration of labourers, as they could not find work save by displacing convicts in assignment. 3 5 Van Diemen’s Land was first and foremost a convict colony. Arthur’s main dislike of assisted working class immigration was its disruption of the assignment system by the creation of competition with the convicts. 36 Arthur wanted the immigration of persons with capital, whom he saw as prospective employers of convicts, but this type of person had decreased since the cessation of free land grants. 37

By the time Franklin arrived as Governor of Van Diemen’s Land in January 1837 the immigration situation was so unsatisfactory that within a short time of his taking office he decided to suspend assisted immigration entirely, save for perhaps a small number of single female domestics. In his report to His Majesty’s Government Franklin put forward his reasons - lack of finance, and too little demand for labour. 38 Unlike New South Wales, Van Diemen’s Land was limited in the extent of available land and therefore in income from land sales. Franklin therefore requested the suspension of assisted immigration until both finance and population warranted it.

References

1. GO1/13 No. 10. 2. Ibid. Goderich may also have been influenced by the Wakefield theory of systematic colonization, which was supported by the former’s secretary, Lord Howick.

3. GO1/1 No. 21. 4. GO1/13 No. 11.

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5. A Government notice was published suggesting the latter course, and several persons replied signifying their willingness to support the scheme, which was later incorporated in the Government’s bounty system.

6. GO1/13 No. 26 Goderich - Arthur. 7. Ibid. No. 36 Goderich - Arthur. 8. Ibid. Nos. 36 & 41, & GO1/17 No. 42 9. GO1/17 No. 45 Goderich - Arthur 25 March 1831. 10. GO1/13 No. 41. 11. GO33/13 No. 48. 12. In 1830 there were 18 228 men and 6 276 women in Van Diemen’s Land. 13. GO33/11 No. 43. 14. CSO1/528/11502. 15. GO33/12 p. 19 Arthur - Hay 8 October 1832. 16. CSO1/742/16027. 17. GO33/19 p. 270 Arthur - Hay, 26 February 1835. 18. GO3/1 p. 82. 19. GO1/17 No. 45 Goderich - Arthur, 25 March 1834. 20. Ibid. 21. See GO3/1 for the lists of arrivals. Usually only 2-3 families came out on each ship. No special ships were chartered. 22. GO1/18 No. 6 Glenelg - Arthur. 23. Minutes of the Executive Council 11 April 1837 (EC4/4 p. 523). 24. GO1/24 No. 27 Glenelg - Franklin, 19 August 1836. 25. Surgeon’s Report, GO33/26 p. 629. 26. Hobart Town Gazette 21 April 1837 Government Notice No. 66. 27. CSO5/89/2004. 28. GO33/13 No. 30 Arthur - Goderich 22 May 1833. 29. Ibid. Also CSO1/558/12292. 30. Executive Council Minutes, 9 July 1831 (EC4/2 p. 93). 31. GO33/11 p. 5 Arthur - Howich 5 May 1832. 32. Hobart Town Gazette 23 July 1841 Government Notice No. 164. 33. Executive Council Minutes, 5 November 1837 (EC4/5). 34. See the petition of mechanics by various ships, complaining that they were misled as to the real conditions in Tasmania. CSO1/778/16606.

35. GO33/20 No. 84 Arthur - Glenelg 15 October 1835.

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36. Ibid. 37. GO33/13 No. 48 Arthur - Stanley 24 August 1833. 38. GO33/26 p. 708.

Sources

1. Governor’s Office inward and outward despatches (GO1 and GO33). For the period of the 1830’s these despatches often contain the only surviving records of immigrant arrivals, listing names, age, occupation, character and employment of the various immigrants. They also contain valuable information on the policies of the Governments concerned.

2. Despatches received from the Secretary and Under-Secretary of State relating to advances to emigrants, 15 November 1831-12 December 1834 (GO3). This volume lists the £20 advances immigrants, giving details such as native place, age, occupation, names and ages of children.

3. Colonial Secretary’s Office records, Arthur and Franklin periods (CSO1 and CSO5). These records provide valuable supplementary information to that contained in the Governor’s Office despatches.

4. Executive Council Minutes, 1831-1837 (EC4/2-6). These give a detailed account of the conditions which resulted in the various complaints and suggestions put forward by the Governors to the British Government.

5. Hobart Town Gazette. Useful mainly for government notices and lists of immigrant arrivals.

11. PART B. THE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION

Following Franklin’s suspension of free immigration in 1837 1 and the announcement that the convict Assignment System was to be discontinued midway through 1840 the Van Diemen’s Land colonists soon realised that the labour supply was rapidly diminishing.2 On 31 March 1840 the Colonial Times published an editorial headed ‘Public Labour’ deploring the drain of labour to the other Australian colonies. This, according to the Colonial Times, together with the improper appropriation of the Land Fund and the cessation of the Assignment System resulted in a shortage of labour which would have a drastic effect on the colony. The editorial suggested that the colonists hold public meetings to consider what steps could be taken to rectify the situation. It also suggested that an Emigration Association be formed to obtain labour for the colony, to be financed from the Land Fund.

Early in May 1840 a well attended meeting of colonists was held in Hobart to discuss the question. At this meeting resolutions were passed referring to the need for ‘extensive importation of free labour’; the use of the Land Fund for immigration purposes only and the need to continue the Assignment System until enough free labour was available. The meeting also resolved that the Government should form a Standing Committee to consider the labour-immigration question, and a petition was presented to Lieut.Governor Franklin stating these points. 3

Addressing the Legislative Council in August 1840, Franklin stated that the call for labour was an unprecedented one, and the supply was quite inadequate. He had therefore taken it upon himself to institute a Bounty System of immigration following the petition from the Hobart meeting in May 1840. 4

On 15 May 1840 regulations had been published setting out the bounties that would be paid on various classes of immigrants and other conditions which were to be met by those desiring to bring out immigrants. 5 Applications for immigrants were sent to the Colonial Secretary who passed them on to the Agent General for Emigration in London whose duty it was to select suitable immigrants. 6 Franklin claimed that there had already been a large number of applications for immigrants by August 1840. 7

In June 1841 Arthur Davies was appointed Immigration Agent at Hobart and Franklin’s instructions to him were published in July 1841. 8 As well as instructing him in his duties as immigration Agent the type of records he was to keep was set out in considerable detail. These included returns of immigrants arriving with all relevant personal details, gratuities paid to ships’ crews, medical reports on each shipload of immigrants and lists of immigrants for whom the bounty had been refused. He also had to compile an annual statistical report. At the same time a sub-agent was appointed at Launceston.

The above regulations were not, however, favourably received by the Home Government. In a despatch to Franklin, Colonial Secretary Russell wrote that the section relating to the bonding of immigrants was to be annulled and the whole Bounty System was to be discontinued once existing obligations had been fulfilled. 9 This despatch reached Franklin at the end of August 1841 and in September 1841 he asked the Legislative Council to form itself into a committee to consider the whole immigration question. After taking evidence from a number of people the Council delivered its report in November 1841. Despite the attitude of the Home Government they were very clearly in favour of the Bounty System (including the bonding of immigrants) and were willing to vote £60 000 towards immigration costs. 10

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From the time of Davies’ appointment until September 1842, 795 immigrants had arrived at a cost of approximately £12 000 to the Colonial Government. 11

It was not long however before it became obvious that this rate of immigration could not continue. Not only was the Land Fund rapidly running out but the general economic conditions of Van Diemen’s Land and the influx into the labour force of convicts receiving Tickets of Leave under the Probation System lessened the demand for free labour. 12

By February 1843 Franklin stated that ‘the immediate discontinuance of immigration at the expense of the Public Revenue is . . . indispensable’. 13 The Land Fund, which had been taken over by the Commissariat in 1846 was restored to the Colonial Government in 1848 and although the question of using it for immigration was again considered it was decided that the wage differential between the Australian colonies was too great and Van Diemen’s Land would only lose immigrants to the mainland colonies. 14

In 1848 the British Government voted £30 000 to be used for immigration to the penal colonies, primarily to send out the wives and families of convicts. This was quite successful, although the numbers were fairly small.15 Part of this money was used to bring out the families of military pensioners who themselves worked their way out as guards on convict ships but difficulty was experienced in finding land or employment for the men. In 1851 the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission sent out two shiploads of Irish female immigrants. This was paid for by the Home Government and these women had no difficulty in finding employment. 17

The discovery of gold on the mainland had a drastic effect on the labour supply in Van Diemen’s Land as large numbers of men left to try their luck on the goldfields. By mid 1852 the effect of this population loss was beginning to be felt and in his opening speech at the second sitting of the Legislative Council Lieut.-Governor Denison stressed the need for a method of obtaining an adequate labour supply. 18 In June 1852 a Select Committee was formed to look into the immigration question. This Committee made its report in August and after confirming Denison’s remarks about the labour supply recommended that about 2 000 to 3 000 immigrants per year would be an adequate number.

As the use of the bonding scheme had been vetoed by the British Government the Committee recommended that £12 500 be appropriated from General Revenue and used to bring out adult male immigrants. As this would be paid for from Colonial Funds these men could be bonded. The cost of bringing out their wives and families could be met from money provided by the British Government and no bond would apply. The male immigrant’s sponsor would pay £7.10.0 and the Colonial Government would pay the remainder of the passage money. 20 The bond, which was intended to provide security for both the immigrant and his employer, would last three years. On 26 October 1852 regulations were gazetted putting these recommendations into effect.

Although approximately 800 applications were received under these regulations the British Government was not satisfied and in May 1853 refused to accept them. They considered that ‘it would promote by means of public funds an extensive desertion of families in England and proposes to send out British subjects bound irrevocably to particular employers whom they have never seen . . . in entire ignorance of the current rate of wages and of the general advantages open to them in the colony’.

13 The upshot of this was that in January 1854 the Colonial Government issued new regulations governing immigration. These provided for a bounty to be paid to applicants who were to pay either £3 for an adult immigrant or £5 for a family. They would receive a Bounty Ticket which was sent to an agent in the United Kingdom who would select the immigrants. Upon the immigrant's arrival the Immigration Agent would certify that he was a bone fide immigrant and the Bounty Ticket could then be presented to the Treasury where the passage money would be paid at a specified rate (£20 per adult at this time). Blank Bounty Tickets could also be issued to ship's masters and other agents. The bonding system was dropped although the Immigration Agent had to be satisfied that the immigrant would remain in the colony or pay back his passage money (in whole or part) if he left. 22

In September 1854 the Legislative Council passed an Act which provided that immigrants for whom the Government paid the full passage money would either have to repay this money within 14 days of his arrival or become indentured to a ‘competent employer’ for a period of two years. The employer was to pay the Government half the passage money required upon contracting the immigrant, and the balance within one year. The Act provided authorisation for the employer to deduct this sum from the immigrant's wages over the two year period 23 In his report for the half year July - December 1854 the immigration Agent expressed considerable dissatisfaction with this scheme due to the difficulty in finding employment for government sponsored immigrants. He further claimed that there was universal disapproval of the scheme although the Bounty System generally was successful, primarily because the sponsors had some interest in the immigrants, who were generally relatives or friends. 24 In his report for January - June 1855 he repeated these sentiments but by this time the whole question was again under consideration by the Government. 25

In his speech at the opening of the Legislative Council, Governor Fox-Young said that although the Bounty System had proved useful and popular neither the Land Fund nor the General Revenue could afford the cost of continued immigration. Following this a Select Committee was formed in July 1855 ‘to consider . . . a continuance of immigration under the Bounty System and the best plan for raising funds for that purpose . . .’ 26 The Committee, reporting in September, recommended that the Bounty System be retained with an increase in the price of the Bounty Tickets. To overcome the financial difficulties the Committee recommended that an Act be passed authorising the issue of debentures up to £100 000 to be charged against the General Revenue of the colony.

This was to be administered by a board of five Commissioners appointed by the Government with the Colonial Secretary and the Treasurer as ex officio members. The Committee further recommended that debentures for £10 000 be raised to defray costs already incurred. 27

On 21 December 1855 an Act was passed ‘to establish a Board of Immigration Commissioners and to enable such Commissioners to raise Two Hundred Thousand Pounds by debentures chargeable upon the General Revenue of Van Diemen’s Land’. It provided that there should be five Commissioners to enforce the Act, of which the Colonial Secretary and the Colonial Treasurer should be two, the Colonial Secretary being President. Provision was also made for the appointment of a Secretary, clerks, officers and agents of the Board and for the payment of their salaries from the money raised by debentures. 28

The first meeting of the Board was held on 31 December 1855 and on 1 January 1856 they called for tenders to purchase debentures at £100 each. This met with reasonable success and by mid February almost £60 000 worth of tenders had been accepted. 29

14. In March 1856 the Board issued new regulations relating to the Bounty System. These were almost identical with those already in force, except that more attention was paid to the conditions under which the immigrants arrived. As a corollary to this the regulations also provided for gratuities to be paid to the master and officers of immigrant ships if the Immigration Agent was satisfied that the immigrants had been well treated. 30 During the next few years there were no changes in the administration of the Act, other than an alteration in the Bounty rates and by June 1860 a total of 4 814 persons had been brought out under the Bounty System.

In 1859 the Board had approved of immigrants being sent out via Melbourne due to the difficulty some had experienced in obtaining a passage direct from the United Kingdom to Tasmania. The Immigration Agent reported that he had also experienced some trouble in preventing immigrants leaving the colony without first repaying the cost of their passage money and he blamed this on the lack of staff in the Immigration Department. 31

August 1860 saw yet another Select Committee appointed to inquire into the working of the Immigration System and to ascertain whether any changes should be made. This Committee generally approved of the System although there had been some complaints that too many old and invalid immigrants had been introduced. The Committee recommended that more care be taken in the selection of immigrants and the payment of the Bounty on unsuitable persons.32 In 1861 however, the number of immigrants arriving in Tasmania had fallen to 354, a drop of 464 on the previous year’s figure. This decline continued and in 1864 only 118 immigrants had been introduced at the public expense. This had fallen to 53 by 1866. 33

In July 1864 another Select Committee was set up to inquire into the question of immigration. It recommended that small farmers be encouraged as they could make use of the agricultural areas set aside under the Waste Lands Act of 1863, free grants of land being given to immigrants who paid their own passage to Tasmania subject to conditions of residence and cultivation. The Committee further recommended that freeholders from Germany should be especially encouraged as they could afford the cost of the passage and were considered to be industrious farmers. It was also thought that a land grant system would prevent immigrants from using Tasmania as a stepping stone to the mainland colonies. 34

Another Select Committee in 1865 set out more specific conditions for the land grant system. These were:

1. Any man aged from 18 to 36 could select land in 50 acre lots. 2. Land was to be set aside in 50 acre lots which could be selected and reserved alternately. 3. After five years residence, and providing that at least 10 acres was under cultivation, the applicant would be granted 50 acres and would have the option of purchasing the reserved 50 acres adjacent to his land.

4. Two areas of at least 4 000 acres were to be set aside specifically for immigrants from Germany. 5. Agents were to be appointed in Germany and the United Kingdom to select immigrants. 35

In September 1865 the Members of the House of Assembly petitioned the Governor to introduce legislation to bring the above recommendations into force.36 It was not until October 1867 however that the necessary Act was finally passed. Although this Act followed more or less the spirit of the Select Committee's recommendations the actual conditions for the working of the system were altered

15. considerably. The main provision of the Act was that agents appointed in the United Kingdom and Germany would select immigrants and issue them with land order warrants. These warrants had a nominal value of £18 (children under the age of 12 were issued with £9 warrants). Upon the immigrant’s arrival in Tasmania (after paying his own passage) these warrants could be used to purchase land. Immigrants who arrived without having been issued warrants received a certificate entitling them to select thirty acres of land (lesser amounts for wives and children). The scheme was limited to immigrants from Europe and India although in 1874 a further Act allowed immigrants from places other than these to select land. 37

In May 1868 Charles Meredith was appointed to act as the Board’s agent in the United Kingdom (at the same time a clerk was also appointed to ‘arrange and index the papers belonging to the Board . .’). After lengthy negotiations with the Board about the terms of his employment however, Meredith declined the position. In December 1868 Frederick Buck was appointed agent in Germany but the agency in the United Kingdom was still vacant and Buck’s offer to combine the United Kingdom and German agencies was not accepted. In January 1871 the Board finally accepted an offer from the Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation to act as agents for the Board in the United Kingdom. 38

By this time the Board had decided to discontinue the German agency although it was not until February 1872 that Buck finally returned to Tasmania. During his term as agent most of the immigrants from Germany had actually arrived under the Bounty System, which was still operating, rather than under the Land Grant System. Although the Board had hoped that the latter system would be used Buck had found that the cost of the passage to Tasmania was prohibitive. Mainly for this reason the Land Grant System was not particularly successful and only managed to attract about fifteen immigrants per year in the first six years of its operation.

Under the 1874 Immigration Act the immigrants were not actually given the title to their land until they had resided on it for five years, 39 but the number of immigrants arriving was still very small despite the efforts of the Board to publicize Tasmania - only about 700 persons arrived from 1866 to 1882. 40

Yet another Select Committee was set up in August 1882 to inquire into immigration. This Committee recommended that the Land Grant System should be continued and also added that immigrants should be able to claim a portion of their passage money from the Government in proportion to their number of years residence in Tasmania (they could claim it all after five years). They also recommended the continuation of the Bounty System and advocated greater efforts to publicize Tasmania. 41 Following this report an Act was passed in November 1882 which enlarged the Board from five to seven members and provided for the continuation of the Bounty System although it repealed the sections of the earlier Acts relating to the Land Grant System. A sum of £30 000 was also appropriated to cover the cost of immigration for 1883, 1884 and 1885. 42

Under this Act the Board published new regulations which provided that upon payment of a deposit by a sponsor, certificates would be issued to cover the cost of the immigrant’s passage. All immigrants nominated still had to be approved by the Immigration Agent in the United Kingdom and restrictions were also placed on the age and marital status of the immigrants. 43 These new regulations proved quite successful and almost 2 000 immigrants arrived between 1883 and 1885. 44

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In 1885 a further Act was passed appropriating £5000 for the purpose of immigration. This was placed under the control of the Chief Secretary using the regulations already in force but although this Act handed the functions of the Board to the Chief Secretary the Board continued to meet until 1 September 1886. 45 Even then they appeared a little uncertain of their status, judging from a note in the minutes of this meeting to the effect that they did not really know whether or not this was to be their last meeting. 46 They were not, however to meet again. Immigration remained for the time being the responsibility of the Chief Secretary.

References

1. Hobart Town Gazette 23 July 1841. 2. Hobart Town Gazette 17 January 1839. 3. Colonial Times 5 May 1840. 4. Legislative Council Minutes 1840. 5. Hobart Town Gazette 15 May 1840. 6. Hobart Town Gazette 26 June 1840, 23 July 1841. 7. Legislative Council, Minutes 1840. 8. Hobart Town Gazette 25 June 1841, 23 July 1841. 9. GO1/41 p.101. 10. Legislative Council Report 1841; GO33/40 p.1 500. 11. Immigration Agent’s Report 1842. 12. Richmond, B. M. Some Aspects of the History of Transportation and Immigration in Van Diemen’s Land 1824-1855. M. A. Thesis, Uni. of Tas. 1956 p.189.

13. Ibid. p. 193. 14. Ibid. p. 268. 15. Ibid. p. 269, 295. 16. Ibid. p. 270. 17. Ibid. p. 296-7. 18. Legislative Council Minutes 1852. 19. Ibid. 20. Legislative Council 1852, Paper No. 37. 21. Legislative Council 1853, Papers Nos 69, 78. 22. Hobart Town Gazette 24 January 1854. 23. 18 Vic. No. 2. 24. Legislative Council 1854, Paper No. 7. 25. Legislative Council 1855, Paper No. 32.

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26. Legislative Council 1855, Paper No. 55. 27. Ibid. 28. 19 Vic. No. 18. 29. CB7/7, 21 February 1856. 30. Hobart Town Gazette 11 March 1856. 31. Immigration Agent’s Reports 1856-1860. 32. House of Assembly 1860, Paper No. 90. 33. Statistics of Tasmania 1861-1866. 34. House of Assembly 1864, Paper No. 78. 35. House of Assembly 1865, Paper No. 61. 36. House of Assembly 1866, Paper No. 40. 37. 38 Vic. No. 16. 38. CB7/7. 39. 38 Vic. No. 16. 40. Immigration Agent’s Reports 1866-82. 41. House of Assembly 1882, Paper No. 105. 42. 43 Vic No. 40. 43. Hobart Town Gazette 26 December 1882. 44. Immigration Agent’s Reports. 45. 49 Vic. No. 32. 46. CB7/7.

18. PART C IMMIGRATION 1887 - 1946.

With the demise of the Board of Immigration in 1886, assisted immigration to Tasmania ceased, save for that of relatives nominated by persons who had themselves been assisted immigrants. The last three persons to avail themselves of Government assistance arrived in 1890. 1

This was not to say that immigrants were no longer desired, but lack of funds and the obvious wastage of spending money on persons who left as soon as possible for the richer mainland states showed that assisted immigration in its present form was not a feasible proposition. Henceforth encouragement was to be given to persons from Great Britain with a little capital to immigrate on their own resources, and in 1901 an Immigration Committee was set up under the aegis of the Chief Secretary’s Department to advise and assist such immigrants upon their arrival in Tasmania. 2

During the last years of the nineteenth century the attention of the authorities was directed less to the need for a supply of desirable immigrants from Great Britain than to the problem of curbing the undesirable amounts of coloured persons who were entering the country. In 1887, following the example of the eastern states, Tasmania passed a Chinese Immigration Restriction Act, which imposed a poll tax of £10 a head on each Chinese person entering the state. 3 In the following year an Australia-wide conference on coloured immigration was held in Sydney, at which uniform action against undesirable immigrants was decided upon. 4 In 1896 the Chinese Immigration Restriction Act was extended to Afghans, Hindus and Syrians 5. and in 1898 an Immigration Restriction Act was passed which effectively barred any person felt to be unsuitable from entering the states In 1901 the power to control the immigration of coloured persons was taken over by the new Federal Government.

During the early twentieth century the emphasis was on encouraging immigrants of British stock. Anglo- Indians had been encouraged to immigrate from 1867, 7 and by 1891 there were 385 such persons in the state. 8 In 1908 an Agent was appointed in India to encourage retired officers of the military, naval and civil services to immigrate, and in 1912 the Indian Government granted these persons an allowance equal to the cost of the fare to England, to assist their passage to Tasmania.9 Apart from Anglo-Indians, British settlers with capital were actively encouraged, but no financial assistance was offered. By 1910, despite the ‘steady stream of small capitalists’ 10 quoted by the Agent General as setting sail for Tasmania, immigration was at a low ebb. Tasmania was, in fact, losing population by emigration to other states, 11 due to higher wages, better land settlement prospects and more expenditure on encouraging migrants to the mainland states.

The haphazard organization of immigration facilities in Tasmania did not help matters. The Committee of 1901, consisting of the Under Secretary, the Secretary for Lands, and the Secretary for Agriculture, fell into abeyance with a change of Government and was not revived until 1909. 12 The work which it had performed was taken over in 1908 by Immigration Bureaux which were established in that year in Hobart and Launceston, and which worked in conjunction with the Tourist Associations in these cities. Until the re- establishment of the Committee and the setting up of the Tourist Associations active encouragement of immigration was undertaken by a private organization, the Immigration League of Tasmania, which was a branch of the Immigration League of Australia. The League had a representative in London and India, and was also associated with German immigration. 13 Its good work was recognised by the Tasmanian Government, which in 1907 set aside £350 under the Surplus Revenue Act in aid of immigration; 14 the money was distributed among the League’s branches in Hobart, Launceston, Devonport and Burnie. In 1908 the League amalgamated with the Tourist Association. l5

19. On 25 September 1908 the Premier of Tasmania wrote to the other states and to New Zealand asking for a description of their schemes of assisted immigration. 16 A change of Government and improved conditions in the labour market had created a desire to increase the population of Tasmania and the will to finance such an increase. The first necessity was to make land available on easier terms. Free railway passes were already being issued to prospective settlers to view land, but the need was for a system of closer settlement which would attract more immigrants with capital. 17 On 20 February 1911 the Immigration Committee was requested by the Premier to prepare a scheme of immigration, and in the same year a Bill was put through the House of Assembly which removed restrictions upon the purchase of privately owned land for settlement and which provided that one block in every six be reserved for bona fide immigrants. 18 An Immigration Branch of the Department of Agriculture was established and a subcommittee instituted, consisting of the Director of Agriculture, the Chief Clerk of the Lands Department and the Secretary to the Premier, whose function was to collect and disseminate information on Crown and private lands suitable for settlement.

The stage was now set for the recommencement of assisted immigration, and it was the nomination system which was revived. Under this scheme persons resident in Tasmania applied to nominate a relative or friend in the United Kingdom as an assisted immigrant. £500 was set aside in the Estimates for 1911 to finance the scheme. Personal nomination was felt to be the best safeguard against the past problem of an exodus of migrants from the state as soon as possible. Nominators promised to house and employ, or find employment for, their nominees, and it was felt that ties of family or friendship would hold arrivals in the state.20 In 1913 the sum to be used was raised to £1000. 21 The method of finance in 1915 was as follows; of an average fare of £14 the state contributed £9 to a woman’s fare, £6 to a man's and £4.10.0 for each child aged 3-12. No men or married women over 40, or single women over 35, were accepted. The nominator sent to the Immigration Office in Hobart the sums of £5 per female, £8 per male and £2.10.0 per child. Persons from Great Britain and British India were eligible for nomination. 22 As fares rose, so did the amount of assistance.

In 1918 the nomination system was shelved, most of the available passages being taken by returned soldiers. 23 During the seven years of its operation the scheme had enabled approximately 512 persons to immigrate free of charge. In 1919 the scheme was revived, but restricted temporarily to ex-servicemen and women from Britain. These persons received a free passage from the British Government provided they were nominated by a Tasmanian. 24 This variation of the nominated system ceased on 31 December 1921. During the 1920’s nominations were opened to non-British persons of white race, but from 1925 such persons had to be first naturalized in England. 25

After 1920 other schemes of assisted immigration were implemented in addition to the nomination system. Child migration was attempted through the scheme of assisting out ‘boy farm learners’ aged between 14-16 who were selected by the Commonwealth Office in London. £12 was contributed to their passage, and on arrival the boys were sent to various farmers to work for a given period of time as a means of repaying their assisted passage. 26 Seventy-one children arrived under this scheme in 1924, in six parties of twelve. The scheme did not prove successful. Most of the boys came from urban areas and many had been out of work for some time. The Tasmanian Director of Labour and State immigration recommended that no more boys be sent out until a better method of selection was found, 27 and the scheme was shelved.

Suggestions for a scheme of assisting domestics to Tasmania had been made from 1911, but it was not until 1921 that a scheme was instituted. As with the boy farmers, £12 assistance was given and selection undertaken by the Commonwealth Govern ment’s London Office. Householders requesting the services of domestics signed an undertaking to employ them, stating wages and conditions offered. 28

20. Domestics were easily absorbed into the labour force, as only small numbers immigrated. In all, only 175 domestics were assisted to Tasmania in the years 1922-1931, 29 when the scheme lapsed owing to the Commonwealth Government’s desire to cut down on assisted immigration until employment conditions improved after the depression. Small numbers of agricultural labourers were absorbed in the same way as the domestics, under an identical scheme of assisted immigration.

Immigration of retired soldiers had always been encouraged by the Tasmanian Government. In the past, the pensions of these persons were commuted to finance their passage. After World War I, poor economic conditions in Britain, together with the large numbers of unemployed, led the British Government to offer free passages to the dominions to British ex-servicemen and their dependents. 30 Tasmania participated in this Overseas Settlement Scheme in the years 1919-1921, encouraging ex-servicemen with capital who were prepared to go on the land, and tolerating those without assets. 31

The above immigration schemes were common to all the Australian states during the twentieth century. The Tasmanian Government did, however, introduce a scheme on its own initiative to encourage that most desired of all immigrants, the British settler with capital. In 1928 an Advances to British Settlers Act was passed in the Tasmanian Parliament. The Act applied to any British subject of European descent who possessed a permanent income of not less than £250 a year or of liquid assets aggregating not less than £3 000 in value. Such persons, providing they undertook to settle in Tasmania for at least 5 years, would be eligible for loans equalling the passage money of themselves and families to the state. Repayment was to be by half yearly instalments with interest. The scheme was not a success, as most persons availing themselves of the loan were unable to repay the Government, 33 and in 1933 the Act was suspended.

Immigration from 1911-1925 was run by the Immigration Branch of the Agricultural Department, reflecting the Tasmanian Government’s emphasis on the settlement of immigrants on the land. In 1920 the Public Service Commissioner suggested that the Industrial Department would be better qualified for the job, as that Department administered the Labour Bureau and therefore the employment market. 34 The switch did not take place immediately, but the Immigration Office was reorganised and a special Immigration officer appointed, under the control of the Minister for Agriculture.35 Control of immigration was transferred to the Industrial Department in 1925, following the realization that, in the absence of a large scale land settlement scheme, the Industrial Department was better qualified than the Agricultural Department to supervise immigrants on arrival in Tasmania. 36

During the 1920’s and early 30’s two other organizations played useful roles in the encouragement of immigration. One was the Tasmanian Branch of the New Settlers’ League, established in the state in 1921. The League had been created by the Federal authorities, with branches in all states, to assist the various Immigration Departments, and was controlled by a Federal Minister. 37 The Tasmanian division’s headquarters were established in Hobart, with a branch in Launceston. Expenses of the League were shared on a pound for pound basis between the Federal and State Governments. 38 Its objects were to encourage, as long as was consistent with the conditions of Australian labour and the returned A.I.F., the migration of British settlers to protect the national safety of the Commonwealth and the maintenance of White Australia, and to welcome and assist new settlers. 39 The League undertook much valuable work in encouraging potential migrants and helping them on arrival, although its activities were curtailed by the Tasmanian Government's decision to encourage only the nominated system of immigration after 1925.

21. Another useful organisation was the State Development Advisory Board, established at the end of 1923 ‘to ascertain whether this State could take advantage of the financial co-operation offered by the Imperial Government in developing the resources of the Dominions’. 40 Earlier in the year the British Government had declared its willingness to grant the Commonwealth Government loans for development works, with a view to preparing for Empire immigration. 41 The Board was set up as a non-political organization to advise the State Government on all matters relating to the development of the state's resources, with a sub-committee on immigration. It made suggestions on various immigration schemes and reports on migrants’ reception and works undertaken with migrant labour. It was instrumental in setting up the Advances to British Settlers scheme in 1928. The Board became defunct in 1932, when the Commonwealth-United Kingdom migration agreement was cancelled.

From its inception the Federal Government had shown a keen interest in immigration - one of its first acts was to pass an Immigration Restriction Act. In 1906 it set up a Central Office in London to actively encourage British migration, and invited each state to send a representative to this office. Tasmania declined the offer, deeming the Agent General competent to deal with the small number of enquiries received regarding the state. 42

In 1914 the Federal Government offered the states a grant to assist their immigration schemes, on a per capita basis for each immigrant without any qualifications. 43 The onset of war, however, caused the plan to be shelved, and it was not until 1920 that the Federal Government asserted some control over assisted immigration. In this year it assumed full financial responsibility for immigration, overall control in the selection of migrants at the request of the states, and responsibility for the transport of selected migrants. The Agent Generals in London were to act as a consultative committee. A Commonwealth Director of Immigration was appointed, and the Prime Minister’s Department took on the job of administering immigration. 44

Financial responsibility for immigration in effect gave the Commonwealth Government control, although the states maintained full responsibility for migrants on arrival, plus freedom of choice as to the type of immigration schemes undertaken and the numbers of migrants wanted. 45 The Commonwealth Government was able to refuse to carry out the state's orders (as it did during the depression), if the financial situation did not warrant large scale expenditure.

In 1925 the Commonwealth and State Governments entered into a Migration Agreement in which the Commonwealth promised to issue loans to the states to enable land to be made available for settlement, or for the carrying out of public works. For every £1 500 issued to the State, its Government was to provide one farm and assist one migrant family averaging four persons direct to the state from the United Kingdom. 46 This agreement was an extension of the Commonwealth-United Kingdom Agreement, and its main purpose was to develop the state’s resources. The scheme functioned until the depression, when the Commonwealth Government brought to a halt all assisted immigration except for the nomination system. 47 It was not until 1938 that assisted migration was resumed. This time personal nominations were accepted directly by the Commonwealth, as well as through the States. 48

In 1946 the Commonwealth Government took complete control of immigration. With the inception of a policy of assisting out 70 000 immigrants per annum from several European countries, the Commonwealth authorities claimed that one overall control of all aspects of immigration was necessary. Finance and selection were already handled by the Commonwealth. Now employment of immigrants

22. would be handled by the Commonwealth Employment Service, and reception and lodging of new arrivals was also to be the Commonwealth's responsibility. It was also to decide on the allotment of migrants to the various states according to need. 49 In Tasmania, the Tourist Bureau continued the work of publicizing the state and dealing with enquiries, and an advisory Committee, comprising the State Immigration officer, the Industrial Registrar, the Deputy Director of the Commonwealth Employment Service in Tasmania, an Officer of the Department of Post-War Reconstruction and the Commonwealth Migration Officer in Tasmania was set up to maintain a close study of the absorptive capacity of the state to ensure that approved migrants fitted in with employment opportunities offered. 50 Records of immigration were still kept by the Tasmanian Government, but control of immigration policy was at an end.

References

1. Statistics of Tasmania, 1890. 2. PD1/138/55. 3. 51 Vic. No. 9. 4. PD1/33/91. 5. 60 Vic. No. 55. 6. 62 Vic. No. 69. 7. 31 Vic. No. 27. 8. CSD22/44/88. 9. Parliamentary Papers 1912, No. 4 (Agent General’s Report, 1911/12). 10. Parliamentary Papers 1910, No. 4 (Agent General’s Report, 1909/10). 11. Statistics of Tasmania. Tasmania suffered a loss of population by net emigration in the years 1860-1920. 12. PD1/212/55. 13. In 1910, 2 Germans were granted assisted passages by the League see PD1/22/55. Letter from the League to the Premier, 14/5/10. 14. 7 Edward VII No. 2. 15. CSD22/117/88. 16. PD1/204/55. 17. PD1/221/55. 18. 2 Geo V. No. 15. 19. PD1/234/55. 20. Ibid. 21. Estimates, 1912/13. 22. PD1/281/55. 23. PD1/318/55/19/18. 24. SWD4/1 File No. M9/71.

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25. SWD4/2 File No. M9/130. 26. SWD6. 27. PD1/388/55/32/24. 28. PD1/359/55/2/21. 29. PD1/552/55/8/36. See also Appendices for numbers of domestics and farm boys sent to each state. 30. Parliamentary Papers 1921-22, No. 38 (Agent General’s Report for 1920/21). 31. PD1/345/55/15/21. 32. 19 Geo V. No. 33. 33. PD1/507/55/3/33 and PD1/552/55/8/36. 34. PD1/345/55/52/20. 35. PD1/359/55/2/21. 36. SWD5. Also PD1/415/55/1/26. 37. Examiner 21 March 1925. 38. PD1/380/55/3/23. 39. SWD5. 40. CB19/1. 1924. 41. Ibid. 42. PD1/187/55. 43. PD1/281/55/55/14. 44. The reasons given by the Federal Government for taking such a large part in immigration were the need to protect White Australia by populating the country, and to develop industry. See PD1/345/55/52/20 for a full description of the new scheme. 45. e.g. Tasmania instituted its own scheme of aiding British settlers in 1928 without Commonwealth interference. 46. PD1/415/55/8/26. 47. This did not affect Tasmania, which had already opted out of all schemes of assisted immigration except the nomination system. The Advances to British Settlers scheme was a scheme of loans, not of assistance, and as such was not affected by Commonwealth decisions. 48. Reasons given for resumption were the decline in persons of British stock by emigration from Australia, the increase in the numbers of aliens in the country, and the fall in unemployment figures. See PD1/552/55/8/36. 49. PD1/731/55/3/46. 50. Parliamentary Papers, 1947 No. 36. Tourist and Immigration Department Report, 1946/7.

24. Sources

1. Chief Secretary’s Department correspondence (CSD22). Useful for policy statements on immigration and statistical returns. 2. Premier’s Department correspondence (PD1) contains correspondence with overseas companies, the Agent General in London and the Commonwealth Government. Also provides lists of assisted and nominated immigrants. 3. Social Welfare Department correspondence (SWD4-15) contains lists of nominated immigrants and farm learners. Useful mainly for information regarding the organization of immigration facilities. 4. State Development Advisory Board miscellaneous correspondence. (CB19/1). Contains the Board’s suggestions on immigration policy and reports on the behaviour of migrants. 5. Parliamentary Papers. Useful primarily for the Agent General’s annual reports.

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PART D: DESCRIPTION OF RECORDS 1816-1972.

MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL (chronological list)

GOVERNOR’S OFFICE

DESPATCHES RECEIVED FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

29 August 1823 - 28 December 1932.

These despatches are particularly useful for the earliest period of immigration, as they are the main source for the Home Government's policies. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: GO1

DESPATCHES RECEIVED FROM THE SECRETARY AND UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE RELATING TO ADVANCES TO EMIGRANTS.

15 November 1831 - 12 December 1834.

This series deals with ‘£20 advances’ immigrants. Each immigrant, together with his family, was the subject of a despatch from Viscount Goderich or Lord Howick to Lieut.-Governor Arthur. Native place, occupation, age, marital status, and names and ages of families are listed. Indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: GO3

GOVERNOR’S DUPLICATE DESPATCHES RECEIVED BY THE COLONIAL OFFICE

12 February 1825 - 27 December 1855.

These despatches reflect the Colonial Government’s attitudes to immigration, record statistics on the subject, and for the periods of the 1830’s often contain the only records of immigrant arrivals, listing name, age, occupation, character and employment in the colony. These have been indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: GO33.

COLONIAL SECRETARY’S OFFICE

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE c.1924-1855

This record group reflects and in some cases duplicates material held in the Governor’s Office despatches in that policy statements, statistics and some arrivals are recorded. The latter have been indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CSO1 – CSO26

26. PORT OFFICER’S REPORTS OF SHIP’S ARRIVALS AT HOBART.

4 September 1834-6 June 1847.

This series is in part duplicated by lists of arrivals held by the Hobart Marine Board (MB2/39) and the Board of Immigration (CB7/10). Arrivals are recorded on a printed form and give name of ship, master, whence, sailing and arrival dates, state of health, owners, tonnage, guns, port of registry, build, number of crew, cargo and agent. Passengers are divided into cabin and steerage and are listed by name. Indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CSO92

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

3 December 1825 - 4 December 1862

The Executive Council minutes record policy decisions, financial systems and reports of various committees on immigration. Conditions on board specific ships and the dispersal of immigrants on arrival are also mentioned. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: EC4.

MARINE BOARD REPORTS OF SHIP’S ARRIVALS (HOBART) WITH LISTS OF PASSENGERS

24 March 1829-30 June 1948.

As in the Colonial Secretary’s Office records of arrivals (CSO67.1) which it partially duplicates, the above series contains detailed information on ships, but little on passengers. Arrivals are divided into cabin and steerage. Cabin passengers are usually recorded by surname only and steerage passengers by number. Partially indexed. An index to ships is contained at the front of each volume. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: MB2/39.

NOMINAL RETURN OF THE CONVICT GUARD ON THE SHIP FAIRLIE

18 February 1852 .

This item contains a list of men who arrived in Van Diemen’s Land under the military pensioners’ scheme; in return for acting as convict guards the men received a free passage and a small piece of land. The list records their names and the names and ages of their wives and children. Indexed.

Reference: MB2/98.

27. CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT

REGISTER OF SHIPS’ ARRIVALS WITH LISTS OF PASSENGERS

1 January 1830-31 October 1833.

This item records the name of the ship, time of arrival and place of departure, and the names of passengers and number of children. Indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CUS30.

CARGO, PASSENGER AND CREW LISTS, MANIFESTS AND ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS RELATING TO SHIPS’ CLEARANCES.

1841-1881.

This series contains only a few passenger lists, which at times duplicate the Marine Board (MB2/39) and Colonial Secretary’s Office (CSO67.1) shipping lists. Partially indexed. Arranged alphabetically by ship.

Reference: CUS36.

VAN DIEMEN’S LAND COMPANY

DESPATCHES FROM THE COURT OF DIRECTORS TO THE TASMANIAN AGENT

21 September 1825 - 29 December 1830 16 May 1834 - 5 October 1843. 16 January 1845 - 30 December 1910.

This series contains general information on immigrants indentured to the Company. Most useful is the despatch dealing with the arrival of the Caroline in 1828 (VDL1/2/37). Name, native place, occupation, family and yearly wages are recorded. Indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: VDL1.

VARIOUS DOCUMENTS RELATING TO IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING AT THE COMPANY’S PROPERTIES (AND PASSENGER LISTS) n.d.

This item contains the passenger list of the ship Edward, a list of ships carrying Company immigrants, and printed sheets setting out scales of provisions for steerage passengers.

Reference: VDL66.

28 REPORT TO THE DIRECTORS SUBMITTING PROPOSALS FOR THE LETTING OF THE COMPANY’S ESTATES TO EMIGRANTS.

March 1841.

This item contains a report submitting that land might be let to tenants possessed of small capitals. It also contains a map of the area to be leased.

Reference: VDL70.

BOARD OF IMMIGRATION DOCUMENTS RELATING TO POLICY, FINANCE, RECEPTION AND MAINTENANCE OF IMMIGRANTS, WITH COMPREHENSIVE LISTS OF ASSISTED PERSONS.

1840 - 1887.

A detailed description of each item in the Board of Immigration records is contained in Part E. This record group gives a most detailed account of immigrants and their activities upon arriving in the colony. All arrivals have been indexed.

Reference: CB7.

TREASURY IMMIGRATION AGENT’S STATEMENT OF PAYMENTS RECEIVED, AND OF THE AMOUNT OF DIFFERENCE TO BE RETURNED UNDER THE REDUCED SCALE OF PAYMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING ON THE KINGSTON ON 25 AUGUST 1854 AND ON THE MAITLAND ON 16 SEPTEMBER 1854.

This item lists the names of the depositors, who were either the immigrants themselves or their sponsors, the amount paid and the amount owing, and whether a family or an individual was paid for. Connected with the Board of Immigration records relating to repayments. (CB7/22 and CB7/23).

Reference: TRE10.

CHIEF SECRETARY’S DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENCE c. 1855 - 1946.

This record group, continuing on from the Colonial Secretary’s Office, contains policy statements, statistics on immigration, memorials from intending immigrants and correspondence on their establishment in Tasmania. From 1871 lists of immigrants who were naturalized are held. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CSD1 - CSD22.

29. TRANSMISSION REGISTER OF PAPERS REFERRED TO AND FROM THE IMMIGRATION AGENT.

18 December 1856 - 10 August 1859.

This item contains summaries of memos or letters forwarded to the immigration Agent dealing with financial matters such as purchase of tickets and repayment of bounty, with the Agent’s comments. A list of persons purchasing debentures is also recorded. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CSD30

SUPREME COURT OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE AND ASSOCIATED PAPERS SUBSCRIBED TO BY ALIENS TO WHOM LETTERS OF DENIZATION WERE GRANTED

25 April 1835 - 18 October 1877. 1886 1899 - 1904.

This item contains copies of oaths of allegiance, which naturalized immigrants had to swear within a month of being granted citizenship papers. There are also some covering letters and a few letters of denization. Alphabetical arrangement by name of applicant.

Reference: SC218

REGISTRAR’S MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO THE GRANTING OF LETTERS OF DENIZATION AND CERTIFICATES OF NATURALIZATION.

1836 1870 - 1880.

This item contains a few letters relating to individual immigrant aliens who wished to take the oath of allegiance. Alphabetical arrangement by name of applicant.

Reference: SC219.

COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT - TRADE AND CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT PASSENGER LISTS. INWARD (HOBART)

1903 - 1921 1923 - 1938 1946 - 1951.

This series records the names of passengers, whether cabin or steerage, age, occupation and nationality. It is duplicated by, but contains more information than, the Marine Board records of arrivals (MB 2/39). Chronological arrangement.

Reference:COM8/3

30. QUARTERLY RETURNS TO THE GOVERNMENT STATISTICIAN OF THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ARRIVING AT AND DEPARTING FROM TASMANIA, FROM AND TO PARTICULAR STATES.

March-June 1903.

Statistics were compiled with regard to Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. They record the number of males, females and children, with general totals. Chronological arrangement. Reference: COM8/6

PREMIER’S DEPARTMENT GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE

1883 - 1946.

This series contains statistics, policy decisions, agreements between the State and the Commonwealth on immigration, and applications from individuals for information or assisted passages. Chronological order.

Reference: PD1

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT - IMMIGRATION AND INTELLIGENCE BRANCH REGISTERS OF GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE.

1909 - 1911.

The Registers contain summaries of enquiries sent to the Immigration and Intelligence Branch of the Agricultural Department. The majority are from individuals requesting information on land, climate, employment, etc.

Reference: AD1

UNREGISTERED CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE SETTLEMENT OF IMMIGRANTS

August 1911 - August 1913.

This item contains letters from the Agent General for Tasmania introducing immigrants to the Immigration Officer, who in turn submitted them to the immigration Board. Information on the functions of the Board is also contained in this series.

Reference: AD6

STATE DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY BOARD MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE RECORDS AND ASSOCIATED PAPERS

1923 -1928.

Created in 1923 as a non-political organization to advise the Government as to the best way of developing the State’s resources, the Board made many recommendations and reports to the Government on immigration. This series contains the Board’s correspondence with the Government. An index to correspondence is contained at the front of the papers.

Reference: CB19/1

31. SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENCE OF THE IMMIGRATION OFFICE CONCERNING THE NOMINATION AND ARRIVAL AND SETTLEMENT OF MIGRANTS.

1920-1943.

This series contains nomination forms, applications for nomination, medical certificates, applications for aid or repatriation and general information on passage money and immigration schemes. Shipping lists are also to be found, recording the ship and date of arrival of immigrants, name, age, date of birth, marital status, religion, birth place, original address and occupation and relationship to nominees. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: SWD4.

CORRESPONDENCE RECORDS OF THE DIRECTOR OF LABOUR AND STATE IMMIGRATION ON THE RE-ORGANIZATION OF THE IMMIGRATION OFFICE AND ADMINISTRATION OF IMMIGRANTS. c 1923 - 1925.

This series deals primarily with correspondence concerning the transfer of the Immigration Department from the Agriculture Department to the Industrial Department, and the consequent re-organization of the various immigration offices. It also contains correspondence between the Director of Immigration and the New Settlers League, which assisted the Immigration Department.

Reference: SWD5

CORRESPONDENCE RECORDS CONCERNING, AND REPORTS OF, A CONFERENCE OF COMMONWEALTH AND STATE IMMIGRATION OFFICERS.

October 1924.

This Conference, held in Melbourne on 6th October 1924, was primarily concerned with policy regarding the collection of passage money loans. Decisions were made as to finance and the type of persons to be assisted.

Reference: SWD6

CORRESPONDENCE RECORDS AND OTHER PAPERS CONCERNING THE APPRENTICESHIPS OF BOY MIGRANTS.

1925.

This item contains lists of persons requiring boy migrants under the farm learners scheme, lists of boys arriving and to whom they were assigned.

Reference: SWD7.

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CORRESPONDENCE RECORDS OF THE DIRECTOR OF LABOUR AND STATE IMMIGRATION WITH THE IMMIGRATION OFFICER

January 1925 - December 1926.

This series contains memos on finance, migrants’ luggage and arrivals, recording ship and date of arrivals, and sometimes age, marital status, occupation and type of assistance received. An index is contained at the front of the item.

Reference: SWD8

MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE RECORDS AND RETURNS OF EXPECTED ARRIVALS

1928 - 1930.

This item contains returns of arrivals in Launceston, with addresses and dates of arrival, and recommendations for free rail passes.

Reference: SWD9

ACCOUNTS FORWARDED BY THE MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT OFFICE, LONDON, TO THE DIRECTOR OF LABOUR AND STATE IMMIGRATION, CONCERNING THE PAYMENT OF PASSAGE MONEY.

1927 - 1932.

This item records the names of migrants and the ships on which they embarked, together with the number of fares and the amount due to be paid.

Reference: SWD10

COMMONWEALTH MIGRATION STATISTICS

October 1924 - October 1928.

This item records statistics on the number of men and women immigrants, countries of origin, nationality or race, and number of departures. Statistics are given on all states.

Reference: SWD11

BOARDING OFFICERS' REPORTS TO THE DIRECTOR OF LABOUR AND STATE IMMIGRATION.

November 1929 - August 1932.

This item lists the number of migrants by various ships, date of sailing and arrival, type of assistance received and amount of luggage.

Reference: SWD12

IMMIGRATION OFFICERS’ REPORTS ON THE RESUMPTION OF STATE IMMIGRATION. 1936 - 1938.

This item records a number of suggestions on the type of person to be encouraged upon the resumption of migration, which had been severely curtailed during the depression. Various schemes are listed, together with notes on their past success or failure.

Reference: SWD13

33. RETURNS FROM THE IMMIGRATION OFFICE TO THE COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRATION OFFICE OF NOMINATIONS, IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION.

June 1924 - July 1935.

This item records monthly returns of nominations, with the name and address of the nominator and the name, age, address, marital status and occupation of the nominee. Also included are monthly returns showing the numbers in each class of occupation, sex, dependents and type of assistance.

Reference: SWD14

FORMS OF NOMINATION OF PERSONS TO MIGRATE TO TASMANIA ON ASSISTED PASSAGES.

15 January 1912 - 31 March 1921.

This item contains copies of character references and nomination forms, which record name, address, and occupation of the nominator, and name, address, occupation and age of the nominee, plus their relationship to each other.

Reference: SWD15

CASE FILES OF CHILD MIGRANTS c. 1940 - c. 1960.

These files contain nomination forms of persons wishing to sponsor child immigrants. They record the name, date of birth, native place and trade or occupation of the nominee and the name, address of and comments on the nominator.

Reference: SWD66.

16. PREMIER'S AND CHIEF SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE

1947 - 1960.

This series records policy decisions as to finance and immigration schemes, correspondence with the Commonwealth Government regarding immigration, statistics on migration and letters from individuals requesting information or seeking nominations for relatives and friends. Chronological order.

Reference: PCS1

PRINTED MATERIAL

1. Statistics of Tasmania 1804 - 1957

Useful for statistics on population increases, assisted and non-assisted immigration, nationalities of immigrants and government expenses regarding assisted immigration.

34. 2. Hobart Town Gazette 1819 - 1972 (Tasmanian Government Gazette from 1907).

Useful for records of arrivals in the early period of settlement and for government notices regarding immigration policy.

3. Journals and Papers of Parliament. 1852 - 1962

Record reports of the various immigration agents, committees and boards, immigration regulations and reports on individual immigrant ships.

4. Acts of Parliament, 1827 - 1934.

See Appendix 3 for a list of Acts relating to immigration.

MICROFILM

Records of the British Colonial Office relating to emigration to Australia. 1831 - 1894.

Reference: CO384/35, 38-39, 41-48, 50, 53-55, 63-65, 70-71.

CO385/3-5, 7, 11-30.

CO386/1-2, 10-12, 19-20, 58-72, 77-187.

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PART E. DESCRIPTION OF RECORDS OF THE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION.

APPLICATIONS BY HORACE ROWCROFT FOR THE POSITION OF EMIGRATION AGENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

4 October 1853 - 25 February 1856.

This series consists of letters written by Rowcroft applying for the position of Emigration Agent and letters to Rowcroft testifying to his suitability for the position. There are also some forms printed by Rowcroft soliciting testimonials. The testimonials themselves comprise about 90 per cent of this series. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/1

CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SECRETARY, COLONIAL LAND AND EMIGRATION OFFICE.

8 May 1855 - 19 May 1865.

This series consists of letters to the Colonial Secretary from Stephen Walcott, Secretary of the Colonial Land and Emigration Office in London. They were forwarded to the Immigration Agent by the Colonial Secretary.

The main purpose of these letters was to transmit lists of immigrants who were the wives and families of convicts in Tasmania and whose passage was being paid by the British Government.

The only details listed are the names and age of the immigrants, the name of the convict and the ships on which the immigrants were sailing. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/2

MISCELLANEOUS INWARD CORRESPONDENCE

February 1856 - October 1884.

This series consists of miscellaneous letters and other documents received by the Immigration Agent. These include a report on the St Andrews Immigration Society, warrants signed by the Governor relating to the issue of debentures, and lists relating to Land Order warrants issued by the Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/3

REPORT ON THE IMMIGRANT SHIP TRADE WIND

22 May 1858.

The Trade Wind arrived in the Derwent in February 1858 from Gravesend. The passengers were placed in quarantine and made a number of complaints about the general state of health on the ship and the behaviour of the master and crew.

These complaints were investigated by the Immigration Agent who concluded that they were justified and made this report to the Board.

Reference: CB7/43

36. TENDERS FOR DEBENTURES

21 May 1856 - 2 January 1857.

This series consists of tenders addressed to the immigration Board for debentures of £100 each issued by the Board under the Act of Parliament 19 Victoria No. 18. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/4

LETTERBOOKS OF THE SECRETARY AND IMMIGRATION AGENT

23 January 1856 - 5 March 1883.

This series of letterbooks is incomplete but those which have survived can be divided into three categories.

The first, from 1856 - 63 contains copies of letters signed by either the Secretary or the President of the Immigration Board. These deal mainly with policy decisions made by the Board or matters which have been laid before the Board and seldom relate to the daily running of the Immigration Department.

The second group covering the period 1859 - 62 contains copies of letters signed by the Immigration Agent only. These relate almost entirely to the running of the Immigration Department and especially to the issue of Bounty Tickets.

By 1867 the offices of Immigration Agent and Secretary to the Board were combined and the letterbooks for 1867 - 83 contain letters signed by the Agent, the Secretary and the President. These letters cover all matters relating to immigration in Tasmania as far as it concerned the Board. Chronological arrangement. The volume 1859 - 62 is indexed but this is a nominal index only.

Reference: CB7/5

TRANSMISSION REGISTER OF CORRESPONDENCE

11 March 1856-27 February 1867.

These volumes are registers of letters written by the Immigration Agent to both private persons and Government Departments including the Immigration Board itself.

They list the date on which the letter was written, how it was sent (i.e. post, messenger, etc.) to whom it was addressed and a brief but quite informative summary of the contents of the letter.

These registers contain details of many letters written by the Immigration Agent which are not entered in the letterbooks. They also provide the only record of letters written during the period for which the letterbooks are missing. Chronological arrangement but no registration numbers.

Reference: CB7/6

MINUTES OF THE BOARD

31 December 1855 - 1 September 1886.

The Immigration Board held meetings at various intervals during this period, their early meetings being once a month although later (c.1875) meetings were held as often as twice a week. In the 1880’s they held fortnightly meetings. The minutes are fairly comprehensive and provide a detailed description of the Board’s activities.

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In the first few meetings the main concern of the Board as expressed by the minutes was the acceptance of tenders for debentures. In the 1850’s and early 1860’s the Board dealt with applications for Bounty Tickets, drafting of regulations, conditions on the immigrant ships and the staffing of the Immigration Department. In the late 1860’s the decisions on individual applications for Bounty Tickets were made by the immigration Agent while the Board concerned itself more with general policy and the type of immigrants wanted. Under the land order system, the Board considered only irregular applications but lists of people receiving land orders appear regularly in the minutes.

The minutes of the 1870’s and 1880’s contain fairly full accounts of the Board’s dealings with the Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation in London. They also concern the appointment of immigration Agents overseas and the publication of Immigrants’ Guides and Handbooks. Chronological arrangement but no index.

Reference: CB7/7

RETURN OF BOUNTY PAYMENTS REFUSED

24 August 1841 - 10 January 1843.

Under the regulations of 14 May 1840, the classes of immigrants for whom the bounty would be paid were set down in detail. This series lists the names of people for whom the bounty payment was requested but refused as the immigrant did not conform to any of the classes laid down in the regulations.

The information given is - name of immigrant, ship, date of arrival and the reason why the bounty was refused. The bulk of this series consists of immigrants arriving on two ships, the Royal Saxon in 1842 and the Royal Sovereign in 1843 but for these people the reason for non-payment of the bounty is not given. (It was in fact later paid. See GO1/54 p. 68). Indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/8

REGISTER OF ARRIVALS UNDER THE 1841 BOUNTY SYSTEM

5 May 1841 - 3 November 1843.

The Immigration Agent was instructed to make lists of all Bounty immigrants arriving under the May 1840 regulations.

This volume dates roughly from Arthur Davies’ appointment as Immigration Agent although a note by him states that some Bounty immigrants had arrived before this record was begun.

The following information is recorded - the date of the immigrant’s arrival; the date of the Bounty application and the applicant’s name and address; the name, age, trade, marital status and family of the immigrant and the amount payable to the applicant and the ship's officers. In many cases, the name of the officers and owner of the ship are also listed. Indexed. Chronological arrangement (by the date of the ship’s arrival).

Reference: CB7/9

38. NOMINAL REGISTER OF IMMIGRANTS OF THE WORKING CLASS

26 July 1841 - 18 March 1844. Part of one volume (CB7/8)

Under the regulations published in the Hobart Town Gazette for 23 July 1841, the Immigration Agent was required to compile lists of all immigrants who arrived without any assistance from the Government. These were to be as complete as possible.

A note by the Immigration Agent at the beginning of the list states that ‘these persons names are taken from the ‘Steerage Passenger’ column of the Customs House Returns of arrivals - all the names in the column are inserted unless I have reason to believe the parties are not of the Working Classes.’

This series gives the following information - the names of the immigrants, the date of their arrival, the vessel on which they arrived and whence they had come. The majority of those arriving were from the other Australian colonies, especially Sydney and Melbourne. Indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/10

CERTIFICATES OF FINAL DEPARTURE

1851 - 65.

Under the conditions laid down in the tenders for ships to carry immigrants a Certificate of Final Departure of the ship from England had to be supplied to the Land and Emigration Commissioners in London before payment of part of the passage money was made.

These Certificates listed the names and age of the immigrants on the ship and were used to calculate the passage money to be paid. They were signed by the ship’s master and surgeon and the Commissioners’agent at the port of departure. A duplicate copy appears to have been carried on the ship. This series, however, only contains Certificates for twelve ships over a period of fourteen years and appears to have found its way into the Board’s records more by accident than design. Indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/11

DESCRIPTIVE LISTS OF IMMIGRANTS

August 1851 - August 1867. July 1883 - March 1889.

This series consists of descriptive lists of immigrants arriving in Hobart and Launceston. From 1851 to 1867 each volume contains a number of ‘books’ and each ‘book’ lists the immigrants arriving on usually one, but sometimes more, ships. These lists were apparently compiled after the ship’s arrival. The first two volumes of this series contain lists of immigrants who arrived prior to the regulations of January 1854 while the remainder list immigrants arriving under the 1854 regulations and later amendments.

Each ‘book’ (except the first seven) in the volumes covering the period 1851-67 contains a roughly alphabetical list of immigrants and gives the following additional information about each - marital status, age

39. religion, education, native place, trade, sponsor, amount of bounty and a remarks column which contains miscellaneous information about the immigrant including assessments of the immigrant’s character. There are also summaries of the number of immigrants, births and deaths, trades, native countries and religion. The names of ships’ officers and other officials such as matron and schoolmaster who received payment from immigration funds are also listed.

The two volumes for 1883 - 89 do not contain summaries of the names of the ships’ officers and the remarks column often includes the name and address of the immigrant's employer and the wages paid.

Arrangement is roughly chronological except for the first two volumes in which the ‘books’ are arranged in a random fashion. The names of the immigrants not listed in the first seven `books' appear in series CB7/13. Indexed.

Reference: CB7/12

EMPLOYMENT REGISTER

3 September 1851 - 1 November 1854.

Although the Immigration Agent was instructed (in 1841) to keep records of the employment of all immigrants this is the only volume which has survived if indeed others were ever compiled. The series is a record of each immigrant’s employment and gives the following information about the immigrant - name, age, marital status, religion, education, native place, trade, name and address of employer, wages and term of employment.

This series appears to have been compiled from CB7/16 as a final record of employment, although the dates overlap for only one year. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/13

REGISTER OF PERSONS RATIONED AT, AND DISCHARGED FROM THE IMMIGRATION DEPOT, HOBART.

6 December 1852 - 4 October 1854.

This volume is a daily record of persons living at the Immigration Depot who received rations from the Immigration Board.

Until April 1853, the list is numerical only, but after this date the names of the immigrants and the ship on which they arrived are given. The scale of rations is also listed. Immigrants discharged from the Depot are also listed but except for a few instances there is no record of where they went after they left the Depot. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/14

LISTS OF IMMIGRANTS DESPATCHED FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM

1853 - 54.

These lists duplicate the Certificates of Final Departure (CB7/11) but were intended to be carried on the immigrant ship to Van Diemen’s Land as a record of the immigrants on board. They give the same

40. information as the Certificates of Final Departure and are also signed by the ship’s master and surgeon and the Emigration commissioner’s agent at the port of departure. Indexed. Chronological arrangement, but incomplete for the period covered.

Reference: CB7/15

REGISTER OF THE HIRING AND DISPOSAL OF IMMIGRANTS

July 1853 - January 1862.

These volumes contain alphabetical lists of immigrants who arrived between 1853 and 1862. They were compiled when the immigrant arrived and list the immigrant's name, age, marital status and trade.

As each immigrant obtained employment or left the immigration Depot for any other reason the following additional details were recorded - employer, where and when employed, wages, term of employment and whether he was rationed by the employer. The record is usually signed by the employer.

Each volume consists of loose sheets which have later been bound together. They appear to have been used to compile a final employment record (CB7/13) but as that series (CB7/13) ends halfway through the volume, the Immigration Agent apparently decided that this series (CB7/16) provided an adequate record of the immigrant’s employment.

Each shipload of immigrants is listed together but these are not bound in any particular order.

Reference: CB7/16

DESCRIPTIVE LISTS OF IMMIGRANTS CIRCULATED TO VARIOUS POSTS

1854 - 56.

This series is a printed list of immigrants divided into two sections - those arriving under the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioner’s Indenture System, and those arriving under the Bounty Regulations of January 1854.

These lists were sent to various posts in Van Diemen’s Land and at least one post in England to be used as a check on any immigrants who attempted to leave the colony before they had fulfilled the terms of their agreement.

The following information is listed-name, ship, marital status, age, religion, literacy, native place and amount of money due. In the section relating to the Indenture System immigrants, any money paid by immigrants leaving is given and also their destination. Indexed. Alphabetical arrangement.

Reference: CB7/17

PAYMENTS MADE BY IMMIGRANTS LEAVING THE COLONY

1854 - 58. Part of one volume (CB7/19)

This series lists payments made by immigrants who were leaving Van Diemen’s Land before they had fulfilled the necessary conditions of residence in the colony. It covers immigrants under the Bounty and Indenture systems for both Hobart and Launceston. The information given is-name of immigrant, ship on which he arrived, the amount and date paid and the immigrant's destination. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/44

41. MISCELLANEOUS NOMINAL LISTS

1854 - 84.

The miscellaneous lists of immigrants making up this series do not appear to have any common origin, some of them apparently having been compiled in England, some on the immigrant ship itself, and others in Hobart and Launceston Immigration Depots.

Because of this the information recorded varies considerably although in most cases the immigrant’s name, age, marital status, native place and trade are listed. Indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/18

PAYMENTS RECEIVED UNDER THE INDENTURE SYSTEM

1854 - 1858.

This series is a register of payments made by immigrants and the employers of immigrants arriving under the Indenture system which was introduced by Act of Parliament in September 1854. It lists immigrants arriving at both Hobart and Launceston, each ship being listed separately. The information given is as follows - name of ship, date and port of arrival, date on which payment was made, amount paid, name of immigrant and name of employer (if the employer made the payment). Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/19

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING

December 1856 - August 1858.

This volume lists immigrants under the Bounty System arriving at both Hobart and Launceston.

In most respects, this list duplicates the relevant period in CB7/12 but the arrangement is alphabetical.

The information given is as follows - name of the immigrant, ship and date of arrival, age, marital status, children, religion, education, native place and applicant’s name.

It also differs from CB7/12 in that a physical description is given of all immigrants arriving at Hobart but not for those arriving at Launceston. Arrangement is roughly alphabetical (i.e. chronological within each letter).

Reference: CB7/20

LISTS OF IMMIGRANTS RATIONED

January 1857 - August 1858.

This series is a monthly return of immigrants who were supplied with rations at the Immigration Depot in Hobart.

The information contained in these lists is - immigrant’s name, the date and ship of arrival, the number of days the immigrants received rations, the name of the person to whom they were finally discharged, and the

42. date on which they were discharged. The total number of rations supplied is also listed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/21.

LISTS OF CONVICTS’ RELATIVES

June 1859 - August 1864. Part of one volume (CB7/21)

This series lists immigrants who were the relatives (usually members of the immediate family) of convicts.

The information given is as follows - immigrant’s name, age, marital status, children, sponsor and relationship to the convict. The name and address of the immigrant’s husband, wife etc. is often listed. Indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/22

LISTS OF IMMIGRANTS VIA MELBOURNE

January 1867 - January 1884.

These two volumes list Bounty immigrants who arrived in Melbourne and then proceeded to Tasmania on a second ship.

The information given is similar to that in other arrival lists (i.e. name, age, marital status etc.).

In addition the following details are listed-the name of ship from England to Melbourne and from Melbourne to Tasmania and the port and date of departure in England. Each entry is certified by the Immigration Agent at Hobart or Launceston.

Arrangement is roughly chronological although as the lists were compiled in Hobart with Launceston entries added, there are some discrepancies. Indexed.

Reference: CB7/23

REGISTER OF LAND APPLICATIONS.

September 1868 - September 1887.

This series is a register of applications for Land Order Certificates under the Act of Parliament 31 Victoria No. 26.

These were issued to immigrants who paid their own passage but had not been issued with Land Order Warrants.

The following details are listed - name of the applicant, number of acres authorised, date of authorisation and references to the authorisation in the letter books and minutes of the Board. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/24

43. REGISTER OF LAND ORDER WARRANTS ISSUED

March 1870 - September 1884.

This volume registers the issue of Land Order Warrants. Some of the earlier ones were issued by the Immigration Agent and the Tasmanian Main Line Railway Company but the bulk of them were issued by the Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation in London.

The following information is listed - immigrant’s name, native place (often in considerable detail), age, date of issue of the warrant, passage money paid, number of acres, and the number of the warrant. Indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/25.

REGISTER OF FEES PAID TO AND LAND ORDER WARRANTS ISSUED BY THE EMIGRANT AND COLONISTS AID CORPORATION.

May 1873 - May 1886.

This series begins as a register of fees paid by the Immigration Board to the Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation for issuing Land Order Warrants to immigrants. From May 1873 to March 1882 the following information is listed-name of immigrant, number of warrant, date of issue, date of Land Order Certificates, number of acres, amount of fees and date of payment authority.

From March 1882 onwards fees were no longer paid on individual warrants as a lump sum of £150 was paid. This series then becomes a straightforward register of Land Order Warrants issued and lists only the warrant number and name although sometimes the date of issue is given.

This latter part duplicates and then continues the previous series (CB7/25). Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/26.

INDEX TO REGISTER OF FEES PAID TO AND LAND ORDER WARRANTS ISSUED BY THE EMIGRANT AND COLONISTS AID CORPORATION

May 1873 - c. May 1886.

This series indexes the register of fees paid to and Land Order Warrants issued by the Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation.

It lists the immigrant's name and gives a reference to the warrant number.

Reference: CB7/27.

LISTS OF IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING FROM GERMANY

August 1870 - May 1872.

This series lists immigrants arriving from Germany although it is doubtful if it is a complete record of all the immigrants sent out by Frederick Buck.

The information given is - name of immigrant, age, marital status, children, religion, education, native place and trade. There is also a remarks column which usually gives the immigrant’s employer and wages.

44. The ship and date of arrival is listed as is the port of departure, although only three ships are listed. Indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/28.

REGISTER OF BLANK BOUNTY TICKETS ISSUED.

May 1854 - August 1857.

This is a register of blank Bounty Tickets issued to applicants for immigrants from Europe under the Regulations of January 1854. There is no indication of whether the tickets were actually used.

The following information is listed-date of issue, to whom issued (applicant), for what purpose (immigrants from Germany, Wales etc.) and the number of family and single tickets issued. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/29

REGISTERS OF APPLICATIONS FOR IMMIGRANTS FROM EUROPE

February 1854 - June 1887. Part of one volume (CB7/29).

This series is a register of application for immigrants from Europe showing payments made on Bounty Tickets.

The following information is given-name and address of applicant, date of ticket issue (at Hobart and Launceston), whether the immigrant is a relation or a servant, and the date of payments on the ticket. From 1867 onwards the immigrant’s name is also listed and the date and ship of arrival. There are monthly summaries of tickets issued. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/30.

REGISTER OF ACCOUNTS PASSED FOR PAYMENT.

May 1861 - October 1866. Part of one volume (CB7/5/3)

This series registers accounts passed by the Immigration Agent for payment by the Immigration Board.

These accounts are mainly for repayments on unused Bounty Tickets, hospital expenses for immigrants, and travelling expenses.

The information given is - date, creditor’s name, amount owing and a quite detailed summary of how the expenses were incurred. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/31

LISTS OF IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING

1841 - 1843.

This series is a list of immigrants arriving under the Bounty and General systems with quarterly and annual abstracts.

45. From September 1841 to November 1842 the name of the immigrant is not given-they are listed as either male or female immigrants - but from November 1842 each immigrant is named. Before this date, only Bounty System immigrants are listed but after this immigrants arriving under both systems are listed. Other information given is trade, applicant’s religion, native place, education and wages received. There are quarterly and annual abstracts of these lists for 1841 and 1842. Indexed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/32.

REGISTER OF HEALTH CERTIFICATES ISSUED.

May 1841 - November 1843. Part of one volume (CB7/8).

This series is a register of the issue of health certificates for ships bringing Bounty immigrants to Van Diemen’s Land. They were issued by the Immigration Agent upon the ship’s arrival.

The following information is listed - name of ship, date of arrival, number of immigrants carried, port of departure and arrival and state of health. This last item is often expanded and the report on the immigrants’ health is quite detailed. Births and deaths on board are also listed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/33.

LISTS OF SHIPS CARRYING BOUNTY IMMIGRANTS.

1854 - 1856. Part of one volume (CB7/19).

This series is a list of ships carrying Bounty immigrants under the regulations of January 1854. Although the list is arranged chronologically, it appears to have been compiled as an index to part of series CB7/12.

The information listed is - name of ship, port and date of arrival and a reference to the ‘book’ number (see CB 7/12 in which the immigrants are listed)

Reference: CB7/34.

MESS LIST OF IMMIGRANTS AT THE IMMIGRATION DEPOT, HOBART.

December 1842 - January 1843.

This series is a mess list of immigrants staying at the Immigration Depot in Hobart. The name of the immigrant is listed (although in some cases only the head of the family is given), the number of the mess and the number of daily rations issued. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/35.

PROVISIONS REGISTER

December 1842 - March 1843. Part of one volume (CB7/35)

This series is a daily register of provisions received into the Immigration Depot in Hobart. The daily amounts of each different type of food received is listed and other items such as soap and candles are also included. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/36.

46. RATION LIST FOR MALE IMMIGRANTS

October 1843 - May 1844. Part of one volume (CB7/35).

This series lists rations issued to male immigrants at the Immigration Depot in Hobart.The list does not give the immigrant’s name but gives the numbers of men rationed in different age groups. The amount of rations issued are also listed. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/37.

REGISTER OF LIGHTS AND FIRES

January 1857 - October 1858. Part of one volume (CB7/21).

This series is a register of Lights and Fires in the Immigration Depot, Hobart. It provides a daily record of the number of fires lit and lights burning in each room of the Immigration Depot. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/38.

DAILY RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS.

July 1842 - June 1844. Part of one volume (CB7/35)

This series is a daily journal of proceedings in the Immigration Depot in Hobart. It gives a quite detailed picture of the activities of the Depot and records such information as the discharge of immigrants who obtained employment, visitors to the Depot, arrival of new immigrants, behaviour of the immigrants and other miscellaneous details. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/39.

REGISTER OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE

January 1853 - October 1857.

This register gives an extremely detailed description of each account showing where it had originated. This often includes copies of relevant letters. The information given is - date, description of account and amount owing. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/40.

SALARY BOOK.

May 1853 - December 1858.

This series lists fixed and provisional salaries paid to the Immigration Board’s staff at Hobart and Launceston. Entries are made monthly. The following information is given - officer’s name, fixed annual salary, period employed, amount paid per month and provisional salary (i.e. probable increments). After March 1857 no distinction is made between fixed and provisional salaries. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/41.

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REGISTER OF CONTINGENT ACCOUNTS PASSED FOR PAYMENT.

October 1882 - November 1887. Part of one volume (CB7/24)

This series lists contingent accounts such as salaries, advertising, refunds, stores etc. passed to the Treasury for payment. The information given is - name of creditor, amount owing, date received, reason for expenditure and date sent to the Treasury. Chronological arrangement.

Reference: CB7/42.

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PART F. APPENDICES.

APPENDIX 1. NOTE ON PRIVATE SOCIETIES.

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a great many societies were established in Tasmania and Great Britain to encourage and/or sponsor desirable immigrants. Some of these obtained Government grants and worked through the Government sponsored systems of immigration. Below is a list of the more prominent societies.

1. The Scottish - Australia Company.

Established in 1822 to bring Scottish emigrants to Hobart Town and Sydney. Its first immigrant ship, the Greenock, arrived in 1824.1 The Company was disbanded in 1831.

2. The Launceston Immigration Aid Society.

Established in 1840 by the gentlemen of Launceston to relieve the labour shortage by sending an agent to England to send out farm servants under the indenture system. 2

3. The Saint Andrews Immigration Society.

Formed in 1841; in 1853 a special branch was created ‘to procure from Scotland the most useful labour sought for by employers in general’. The Society worked through the Government bounty system, purchasing blank bounty tickets which were sent to a special agent in Scotland. The Society received a Government grant in 1855.4

4. The Highland and Island Emigration Society.

Received a grant of £3 000 in 1853 from the Van Diemen’s Land Government to aid it in assisting immigrants from the Scottish highlands and. islands to the colony:5 The same method of selection was used as that of the St Andrews Society - blank bounty tickets purchased from the Government to be used by the Scottish agent.

5. The Hobart Town Immigration Society.

Established in 1854 ‘under the pressure of the want of labour, and universally felt necessity to counteract the objectionable character of the emigration then carried on by the Emigration Commissioners’. 6 Bounty tickets were purchased from the Government to assist working class immigrants. The Society was dissolved upon the establishment of the Board of Immigration in 1856.

6. Family Colonization Society.

Established in London in 1855 by an association of gentlemen who devoted their time to emigration to benefit the colonies. Blank bounty tickets were used to assist domestics to Tasmania. 7

7. The Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation.

This Society, established in London in 1871, had as its aim ‘the improvement in the condition of the industrial classes by emigration, combined with the acquisition of profit’. 8 The Society acted as the emigration agent for Tasmania in London for 15 years.

49. 8. The Immigration League of Tasmania.

The League was a branch of the immigration League of Australia, and worked independently until its amalgamation with the Tourist Bureau in 1907.9 Its funds were raised by public subscription, and in 1907 it received a Government grant. 10 It had agents in London and India and was associated with German migration.

References

1. Hobart Town Gazette 20 February 1824. 2. CSO5/247/6450. 3. CSO24/255/10495. 4. CSD1/40/535. 5. CSD1/24/8064. 6. CSD1/48/624. 7. CSD1/130/4771. 8. CSD7/40/702. 9. CSD22/129/88. 10. 7 Edward VII No. 2.

APPENDIX 2. NOTE ON NATURALIZATION PROCEDURES.

The first Naturalization Act was passed by the Colonial Government in 1834 to encourage the immigration of respectable foreigners. The Act enabled the Lieutenant-Governor to grant letters of denization to respectable aliens who had either resided in the colony for seven years, or who held a letter of recommendation from the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Naturalized persons were to enjoy all the privileges of British subjects save that of election to the Executive and Legislative Councils. Successful applicants had to swear an oath of allegiance to the local commissioners of the Supreme Court within a month of receiving the letters of denization. l

In 1861 a new Naturalization Act was passed. This Act gave naturalized persons full citizenship rights. Applicants were required to submit memorials to the Governor stating age, profession or trade and duration of residence in the Colony. An oath of allegiance was again to be sworn before the Supreme Court within a month of naturalization. 2

The years for which naturalization figures survive, 1875 - 1903, record 951 persons as being naturalized, with the highest number for any one year being 151 in 1903.3 The majority of persons naturalized were Chinese. 4 In 1904 the Commonwealth Government took control of naturalization.

References

1. 5 Gul IV No. 4. Copies of oaths of allegiance were deposited with the Supreme Court. See SC218 and SC219 for some surviving copies. CSO1 also contains applications for, and letters of, denization. 2. 25 Vic No. 2. SC218 and SC219 contain copies of oaths of allegiance and some naturalization papers and applications.

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3. Statistics of Tasmania, 1875 - 1903. 4. The Chief Secretary’s Department correspondence records contain petitions and certificates of naturalization. The petitions record information such as place and date of birth, occupation, marital status, family and the length of residence in the colony.

APPENDIX 3. TASMANIAN ACTS OF PARLIAMENT RELATING TO IMMIGRATION

1. 5 Gul IV, No. 4: An Act for enabling the Lieutenant-Governor to grant letters of Denization in certain cases, 4 September, 1834. 2. 18 Vic. No. 2: An Act to regulate the binding out of Assisted Emigrants and for other purposes connected therewith. 15 September 1854. (The Assisted Emigrants Act, 1854). 3. 19 Vic. No. 18: An Act to establish a Board of Immigration Commissioners; and to enable such Commissioners to raise two hundred thousand pounds by debentures chargeable upon the General Revenue of Van Diemen’s Land. 22 December 1855. (The Immigration Act, 1855). 4. 25 Vic. No. 2: An Act for the Naturalization of Aliens. 30 November 1861. (The Alien Act, 1861). 5. 31 Vic. No. 26: An Act to amend The Immigration Act, 1855, 11 October 1867. (The Immigration Act, 1867). 6. 31 Vic. No. 27: An Act to enable the Governor to reserve land for settlement by persons coming from India to Tasmania. 11 October, 1867. 7. 38 Vic. No. 16: An Act to amend The Immigration Act 1867. 18 September 1874. (The Immigration Act, 1874). 8. 46 Vic. No. 40: An Act to further amend The Immigration Act, 1855.6 November, 1882. 9. 49 Vic. No. 4: An Act to regulate the Conveyance of Passengers to Tasmania. 7 September, 1885. (The Passengers Act, 1885). 10. 49 Vic No. 31: An Act to further amend The Immigration Act, 1855. 5 December, 1885. (The Immigration Act, 1885). 11. 49 Vic No. 32: An Act to further amend The Immigration Act, 1855. 5 December, 1885. (The Immigration Appropriation Act, 1885). 12. 51 Vic No. 9: An Act to regulate and restrict Chinese Immigration. 7 November, 1887. (The Chinese- Immigration Act, 1887). 13. 60 Vic. No. 55: An Act to apply and extend the provisions of The Chinese Immigration Act 1887, to certain other coloured races. 26 November, 1896. (The Coloured Races Immigration Act, 1896). 14. 62 Vic. No. 69: An Act to place certain restrictions on Immigration, 29 October, 1898. (The Immigration Restriction Act, 1898). 15. 2 Geo V. No. 15: An Act to further amend The Closer Settlement Act, 1906. 2 December 1911. (The Closer Settlement Act 1911).

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16. 16 Geo V. No. 88: An Act to authorise the Government of the State to enter into an Agreement with the Government of the Commonwealth with respect to the Migration of Persons from the United Kingdom to the State, and the borrowing by the State from the Commonwealth of Moneys to be expended by the State in connection with the Settlement of such Persons in the State. 23 April 1926 (The Migration Agreement Act 1926). 17. 19 Geo V. No. 33: An Act to encourage the Settlement of British Subjects in Tasmania and to authorise the Treasurer to advance certain Sums of Money for that purpose. 22 December 1928 (The Advances to British Settlers Act, 1928). 18. 20 Geo V. No. 64: An Act to amend the Advances to British Settlers Act, 1928. 24 December 1929 (The Advances to British Settlers Act, 1929). 19. 20 Geo V. No. 6: An Act to amend the Migration Agreement Act, 1926, and to notify an Agreement Supplemental to the Commonwealth and State Agreement Authorised thereby. 25 July 1929 (The Migration Agreement Act, 1929). 20. 25 Geo V. No. 16: An Act to amend the Passengers Act, 1885. 2 November 1934 (The Passengers Act, 1934).

APPENDIX 4. BOARD OF IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS.

GOVERNMENT NOTICE No. 96 Colonial Secretary’s Office, 14 May, 1840.

The Lieutenant-Governor, being desirous of giving immediate effect to the intention communicated to the Deputation of Gentlemen who presented the Address to His Excellency on the 8th instant, has approved of the following arrangements for bringing out Emigrants from Great Britain or Ireland to this Colony:

1st. That the sum of £40 be paid towards defraying the passage of a man and his wife (and children under three years of age), provided the ages of the married couple do not exceed, on embarkation, 35 years respectively.

2nd. That the sum of £19 be paid towards defraying the passage of each male Emigrant above 18 years of age, and not exceeding 3 5 years, on arrival.

3rd. That the sum of £18 be paid towards defraying the passage of each female domestic above the age of 17 years, and not exceeding 35 years, on arrival.

4th. That the sum of £7 be paid for the passage of each child from 3 to 10 years of age, and of £12 for lads between the ages of 10 and 18 and females between 10 and 17 respectively, for whose parents, or parent the rate of Bounty specified in Article No.1 may be allowed.

5th. That there be allowed to the Master of each Vessel bringing out Emigrants under the terms of this Notice a gratuity of 7s., to the first mate 3s., and to the second mate 1s. 6d., for each person above one year of age, provided their conduct to such Emigrants during the voyage prove satisfactory to the Lieutenant- Governor.

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6th. That parties applying for servants, under the terms of this Notice be required, before receiving the Bounty, to enter into an engagement to maintain them for the term of the agreement hereinafter alluded to unless parted with by mutual consent, or discharged by due course of law.

7th. That persons requiring servants, under the Bounties thus offered be allowed to choose their own Ships; but it is recommended that ‘regular traders’ to and from the ports of Hobart Town and Launceston be selected.

8th. That no Emigrant brought out under the foregoing regulations be engaged for a less period than three years, under a written agreement, according to a form hereafter to be published, and to date from the day such agreement is entered into, in Great Britain or Ireland.

9th. That these respective Bounties be allowed for Emigrants of the following description only; viz. Agricultural Labourers, Shepherds, Masons, Bricklayers, Blacksmiths, Wheelwrights, Shipwrights, and all other descriptions of Mechanics, and male and female Domestic Servants.

10th. That all applications from persons requiring Servants, or Mechanics, or Labourers, be according to the subjoined form (A), and addressed to the Colonial Secretary; and no application can be attended to unless the particulars prescribed in the form are fully inserted.

11th. That all Emigrants arriving under the Bounty be immediately landed on arrival, and maintained at the expense of the persons sending for them.

12th. These Bounties to be paid from the Colonial Treasury on arrival of the Emigrants, upon the Lieutenant- Governor being satisfied that they are of the proper age, and not ineligible from bodily infirmity.

13th. The foregoing Regulations are not to extend to the wives, husbands, or children of Convicts.

By His Excellency’s Command,

M. FORSTER.

N.B. A Form of Agreement to be entered into, as referred to in the above Notice, will be published in a future gazette.

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A.

Notification of Intention to bring out Servants under the Terms specified in the Government Notice, No. 96 dated 14th May, 1840.

Name of Agent at Description of Hobart Town or Name and Male or Female, Name of Agent in Servant, From what Port to Launceston who Address of Party and Number of Great Britain or Mechanic, or be embarked will receive the applying each. Ireland. Labourer. Emigrants applied for on arrival.

I, …………………………………………………………………………………………..do hereby bind myself to abide by the Regulations published in the Hobart Town Gazette, on the subject of Bounties for Emigrants, under date 14th May, 1840, and No. 96.

(Signed)

54. GOVERNMENT NOTICE

No. 171

Colonial Secretary’s Office, 22nd July 1841.

The Lieutenant-Governor has directed the following instructions to the Immigration Agent to be published for general information.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN MONTAGU

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF THE IMMIGRATION AGENT

The two systems under which Immigrants may be expected to arrive in this Colony are the Bounty System, and the system under the immediate direction of the Colonization Commissioners in England.

Bounty System

The Regulations of the Bounty System are laid down in the Government Notice of the 14th May, 1840, and by these the Immigration Agent will be governed. The applications, however, from persons requiring Servants which are therein directed to be addressed to the Colonial Secretary, are now to be sent in to the Agent, who will adopt, with respect to them, the same course as has been pursued by the Colonial Secretary.

Upon the arrival of a ship having Immigrants under the Bounty System, the Agent will proceed on board and ascertain on whose application they have been sent out. He will then place himself in communication with the applicants or their agents; and, with as little delay as possible, send in a return to the Colony Secretary, stating the name, age, trade or calling, of each immigrant, whether he or she be married or single - if married, the number of children (if any), the date of arrival in the Colony, the name of the applicant, the date of the application, and the amount of Bounty payable under the regulations. The Certificate of the Health Officer to be appended to the return as to the state of health of each Immigrant. The Agent will also send in a return of the sums to which the Masters and Mates of the vessel may be entitled. It will be particularly his duty to ascertain the conduct of the Immigrants during the passage, the quality and quantity of the provisions which they have received, together with their general treatment, reporting on each of these particulars to the Colonial Secretary for His Excellency’s information.

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RETURN of Immigrants arrived from to

Married Unmarried Children Adults Adults Name of Date of Date of Name of Name of Trade or Amount of Ship Arrival Application Applicant Immigrants Calling Bounty Payable Males Males Males Males Males 3 to 10 10 3 to (males) 10 to 18 18 to 10 17 to 10 Females Females Females Below 3 (Females) (Females)

I certify that this is a correct Return, and that the Applicants herein named are entitled to the Amounts placed after their Names respectively.

A. B. Immigration Agent

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Immigrants by Vessels chartered by the Government

1st. On the arrival of one of these vessels, the Agent will immediately proceed on board, accompanied by the Health Officer, taking care to ascertain before boarding that no disease prevails on board which will subject the ship to quarantine. In the event of such disease existing, the Agent will obtain as much information as he can without breaking through the Quarantine Regulations as to the state of the Immigrants and their immediate wants, and will, without loss of time, make a report accordingly to the Colonial Secretary, from whom he will receive further instructions.

2nd. On arriving on board, the Agent will ascertain the state of the Immigrants, their number, health, and description, with the deaths and births which may have occurred during the voyage, and other particulars respecting which he may think it right to require information. He will also ascertain what supplies of fresh meat may be required, sending in at once a requisition for such as appear to him to be necessary for the Lieutenant-Governor’s approval.

3rd. As soon as possible after arrival of the ship, the Agent will have a general muster of the Immigrants, and ascertain the name, age, native place, religion, education, and trade of each. He will receive the testimonials which each may have, to be deposited in his office. He will ascertain whether the Immigrants have been regularly employed during the passage, what general arrangements have been observed, whether any school has been established, and (if so) with what success, whether Divine Worship has been regularly performed on the Sunday, the nature of the accommodation, the fitness of the vessel for the conveyance of the Immigrants, the conduct of the immigrants, the quality and quantity of the provisions which they have received, and their general treatment.

4th. After mustering the Immigrants, the Agent will take the necessary steps for disembarking them, publishing, as soon as possible, a list in the Gazette, giving the name, age and calling of each, for the information of persons requiring their services. A copy of such list to be posted in his office.

5th. The Immigrants will be allowed rations for one month from the Government; and all who are desirous to avail themselves of this allowance must proceed on their disembarkation direct to the House provided for their accommodation by the Government. Looking, however, to the demand for labour and for domestic servants which now exists, His Excellency does not contemplate that any one of them will have occasion to remain for so long a period in the Establishment. No Immigrant is to be allowed to remain after having refused an offered engagement of which the Agent may approve.

6th. A weekly list of those engaged, and of those that remain disengaged, is to be published in the Gazette by the Agent.

7th. The Agent will make a report respecting each Ship as soon as possible to the Lieutenant-Governor through the Colonial Secretary, affording information upon all the points referred to in paragraph 3; and, as all the Immigrants have been disposed of, he will send in a return, giving the names of their employers, the services for which they have been respectively engaged, and the rate of wages they are to receive.

8th. It will be the duty of the Agent to keep records in his office of the arrival of every Immigrant, the service which he or she may have entered, and of the other particulars respecting the party which he has reported officially.

57. 9th. He will keep a register also of all the persons for whom the Bounty may have been refused, and, as far as he can, of all other Immigrants who may arrive without assistance from the Government. With the view of enabling the Agent to comply with the latter part of this instruction, His Excellency has directed that the Officers of Customs should send in to him the reports of the arrival and departures of vessels.

10th. The Agent will report quarterly the extent of the demand that may continue to exist for labour, and the class of Immigrants that may more particularly be required.

11th. He will make, at the expiration of each half-year, a return of the Immigrants who have arrived, with a statement of the amount paid in Bounties, and of the total expense of any vessels that may have arrived chartered by the Government; the Immigrants in this return being ranged under the heads of their several occupations. He will also be required to make, at the end of each year, a full report, setting forth the number of Immigrants who may have arrived during the past year, their general character, the average rate of wages which has been obtained by them in their respective occupations, the amount and nature of the labour still required by the Colonists, and affording generally information upon every point of importance in connection with the subject, either to the Colonists themselves or to the Mother Country.

12th. The Immigration Agent will issue the necessary instructions to the Sub-Agent at Launceston, so that the same rules may be observed with regard to Immigrants there as in Hobart Town. The Sub-Agent will send in all his returns and reports to the Immigration Agent, who is to be regarded as the Head of the Department.

JOHN MONTAGU

Colonial Secretary’s Office, 22nd July 1841.

GOVERNMENT NOTICE

No. 110

Colonial Secretary’s Office, 22nd October 1852.

The Lieutenant-Governor has directed the following instructions to the Immigration Agents, and to those persons who may desire to avail themselves of the proposed Regulations, to be published for general information.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. S. CHAPMAN.

INSTRUCTIONS and Regulations for the Guidance of the Immigration Agents, and of those Persons who may desire to introduce Mechanics and Labourers into the Colony under the same.

1. All persons who are, or may be, desirous of introducing any mechanics, labourers, or other male servants into the Colony, under the Regulations hereinafter set forth, must apply to the Immigration Agent at Hobart Town or Launceston, and furnish such Agent with a written description of the class of the Immigrants (that is, whether mechanics, labourers, or otherwise) sought to be introduced.

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2. Every person so applying shall pay to such Agent the sum of Three Pounds Fifteen Shillings in money, in respect of every such male Immigrant proposed to be introduced, together with his promissory note for a like sum of Three Pounds Fifteen Shillings, payable to the Colonial Treasurer of the Colony on the arrival of such Immigrant.

3. Upon such payment in money, and upon the signing of such promissory note, the Immigration Agent, to whom application shall have been made, shall deliver to the applicant an Emigration Ticket, in the form set forth in Schedule A, in respect of every such payment so made and every such Immigrant so intended to be introduced.

4. The holder of such Emigration Ticket shall be at liberty to select through any private Agent in the United Kingdom, any mechanic, labourer, domestic or other male servant as to the applicant may seem fit.

5. Upon making such selection, the Agent of the applicant, upon presenting his Emigration Ticket (having first duly executed the Certificate at the back thereof) at the Office of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, and upon furnishing such Commissioners with the name, description, and place of abode of the person so selected, shall be entitled to claim, and shall receive, for the person so selected a free passage to this Colony in the earliest available ship; and, if the number of persons for whom a free passage is claimed under and by virtue of such Emigration Tickets be sufficient, His Excellency is prepared to recommend that a ship be specially chartered for their conveyance.

6. Every intending male Emigrant who may be desirous of availing himself of the conditionally free passage contemplated by these Regulations, will be required, prior to embarkation, to sign a promissory note for the sum of Seven Pounds, Ten Shillings, payable on demand to his intending employer in the Colony. Payment of this promissory note will not be required so long as the Immigrant shall continue in his service in the Colony. On completion of one year’s service, one third (Two Pounds Ten Shillings) of the said note will be written off,-the Immigrant being then liable to the payment of Five Pounds only. On completion of two year’s service, another third (Two Pounds Ten Shillings) will be written off,the Immigrant then being liable to the payment of Two Pounds Ten Shillings only. On completion of three years’ service the said Promissory Note will be cancelled, or will become null and void. Provided that if the employer shall wrongfully, and without just cause, dismiss any mechanic, labourer, or other male servant introduced under these Regulations before the expiration of this term of service, such employer shall not be entitled to recover the amount of the said Promissory Note or any part thereof.

7. Intending Emigrants will be required to enter into an agreement in writing with the Agent of their proposed employer in the Colony. In this agreement must be set forth in clear and distinct language, the term of service, not exceeding three years, for which such intending Emigrant agrees to hire himself, together with the rate of wages agreed upon. The agreement shall also recite the promissory note mentioned in the sixth Regulation, and the conditions upon which it is given.

8. Any Settler, who shall, by himself or his own private Agent, after having obtained his Emigration Ticket in the manner set forth in the second and third Regulations, bring or convey into the Colony a mechanic, labourer, or other male Immigrant under indenture or agreement to serve the said Settler, and who shall produce such indenture or agreement, so as to prove to the satisfaction of the Immigration Agent at Hobart Town or Launceston that such indenture or agreement has been entered into bona fide by and between the Agent of such Settler and such mechanic, labourer, or other male Immigrant, and who shall produce proof to the satisfaction of such Immigration Agent that such mechanic, labourer, or other immigrant mentioned in such indenture or agreement has arrived in the Colony, such Settler, on the production of his Emigration Ticket shall

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receive the Government Bounty; that is to say, the difference between the whole cost of passage for the time being from the port or place at which such Immigrant shall have embarked to Hobart Town or Launceston and the sum of Seven Pounds Ten Shillings; he, the said Settler, first duly paying his said promissory note for Three Pounds Fifteen Shillings mentioned in the second Regulation, unless the said promissory note shall have been already satisfied.

His Excellency desires it to be further notified, that funds will be immediately placed at the disposal of Her Majesty’s Land and Emigration Commissioners to an extent equal, at least, to the vote of the Legislative Council, and as much more as will constitute the available balance of the Land Fund, for the purpose of defraying the cost of the passages of the wives and children of the intending Emigrants under the foregoing Regulations: but as the fund is limited, it must be understood that the Government cannot pledge itself to defray the whole cost of the passages of families however numerous they may be. Discretion must, therefore, be given to the Land and Emigration Commissioners as to the mode of appropriating such monies: but His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor is prepared to recommend that it be expended in such a manner as to give to each Immigrant a fair share of the advantages offered, in accordance with the spirit of the Report of the Legislative Council.

H. S. CHAPMAN

Colonial Secretary’s Office, 22nd October, 1852.

SCHEDULE A

No. No. Hobart Town, 185 £. s. I do hereby certify that I have this day received from Received ...... 3 15 ………………………….……the sum of Three Pounds Fifteen Promissory Note .. .. 3 15 Shillings, together with his Promissory Note for the like sum of Three Pounds Fifteen Shillings, under the Immigration £.7 10 Regulations of 1852.

Certificate for the passage of a The said…………………upon presenting this Certificate at Male Emigrant. the Office of the Land and Emigration Commissioners in Applicant. Park-street, Westminster, will be entitled to claim a free passage to Van Diemen’s Land for one male Emigrant. Immigration Agent

Immigration Agent. (At the back)

I hereby certify that……………………………… , carpenter, [or other description as the case may be] has this day signed a Promissory Note for Seven Pounds Ten Shillings, in compliance with the Regulation of the Government of Van Diemen’s Land dated the 22nd October 1852, No. 6, under which a free passage is now claimed for the said

Agent of……………………………………………… of Van Diemen’s Land

The ………………..…. day of ……………..185 .

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GOVERNMENT NOTICE

No. 11

Colonial Secretary’s Office, 23rd January 1854.

The Lieutenant-Governor, having approved of the following Regulations for the promotion of Immigration to Van Diemen's Land, directs that they be published for general information; and that all former notices and regulations on the same subject be from this date revoked and cancelled, except in so far as may be necessary to give effect to applications already received and acted upon.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. CHAMP

BOUNTY REGULATIONS for the Introduction of Mechanics, Labourers, and Domestic or other Servants into Van Diemen’s Land from any Port of Europe.

1. Applications and payment to be made to the Immigration Agent.] - Persons who may desire to avail themselves of these Regulations must apply in writing (Form No. 1) to the Immigration Agent at Hobart Town or Launceston, describing the Immigrants intended to be introduced, and stating whether they are to be mechanics, labourers, domestic or other servants, and whether male or female, single or with families; and shall pay to him the sum of £3 in respect of every single immigrant of the age of fourteen years and upwards, and £5 in respect of every family.

2. Bounty Tickets to be issued transferable to Masters of Vessels.] - The Immigration Agent, on receiving such applications and payments, and being satisfied that the applicants intend to employ in the Colony the Immigrants proposed to be introduced, will deliver to the applicants Bounty Tickets in duplicate in the form set forth in Schedules A and B for the payment of the whole passage-money of the Immigrant or Immigrants applied for, at the rate fixed for the time being in the manner herein declared by Regulation 7; and the passage-money set forth in every such Bounty Ticket shall, under the condition laid down in Regulation 3, be payable at the Colonial Treasury on the arrival of the immigrants, either to the applicant himself, or to the master of the vessel in which they may be brought to Van Diemen’s Land, should such Bounty Ticket have been endorsed over by the applicant in the form specified on the Ticket.

3. Condition on which Bounty Tickets will be payable.] - The Immigration Agent at Hobart Town or Launceston must be satisfied that the immigrant or Immigrants in respect of whom the Bounty is claimed have arrived in the Colony under agreement not to leave Van Diemen’s Land within four years after arrival; or otherwise before leaving that Colony to make to the Immigration Agent at Hobart Town repayment towards his or her passage-money, at the rate of one-fourth of such passage-money for every year wanting to complete four years’ residence, and a proportionate sum for every part of a year, which engagement shall be executed on the Bounty Ticket in the form thereon set forth. On being satisfied that this condition has been duly performed, the Immigration Agent will certify in writing on the Bounty Ticket the arrival (or death on the voyage) of such immigrant or Immigrants, and the amount of their passage-money, which will then be payable upon presentation of the ticket at the Colonial Treasury, provided that every such Bounty Ticket shall be presented for payment within eighteen months from the date thereof. Applicants for Bounty Tickets will also be supplied at the same time with blank Forms of Agreement, by which their Agents may contract with Immigrants for their services for such period after arrival in the Colony as may be agreed on; and for the repayment during each service of the £3 or £5, as the case may be, paid by such applicants to the Government.

61. 4. Promotion of the Immigration of the Relatives and Friends of persons in the Working Classes residing in Van Diemen's Land.] - In order to promote the Immigration and settlement in Van Diemen’s Land of the relatives and friends of persons in the working classes residing in that Colony, it is hereby provided that, on application and payment being made by such persons, in the manner set forth in Regulation 1, for the introduction of friends or relatives in the working classes, the Immigration Agent, on being satisfied that the Immigrants applied for are of that description, and coming out to live by labour, will, in the manner specified in Regulation 2, deliver to the applicants Bounty Tickets to which the foregoing conditions shall apply.

5. Payments may be returned.] - Persons having sent to Europe for Immigrants under these Regulations, on showing reasonable cause for having failed to introduce them, may, by application at the Immigration Office from which the Bounty Tickets were issued, and on returning the tickets, obtain repayment of the money advanced by them.

6. Blank Bounty Tickets transmitted to Agents &c. in the United Kingdom or elsewhere to provide Passages for Emigrants selected by them.] - Blank Bounty Tickets in the form set forth in Schedules C and D will be transmitted to such Committees, Agents, or other persons in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, as may be considered by the Colonial Government likely to advance the interests of Van Diemen's Land by sending out suitable Emigrants. Such Committees, Agents, or other persons will insert in the Tickets the names of Emigrants, who will thus obtain a free passage at the rate fixed for the time being by the Government of the Colony, in the manner herein declared by Regulation 7; subject to the condition laid down above in Regulation 3, and to an engagement to be executed on the Bounty Ticket in the form thereon set forth to repay to the Immigration Agent at Hobart Town £3 for a single Immigrant, and £5 for a family, as part of the expenses of their introduction.

7. Rates of passage-money which will be paid on Bounty Tickets.] - The rate at which the Government of Van Diemen’s Land will pay for the passages of immigrants from the United Kingdom, from other parts of Europe, or other countries or places from which it may at any future time be considered advantageous to encourage Immigration, will be fixed from time to time prospectively, and notified in the Hobart Town Gazette and newspapers, so as to give sufficient and timely notice on the subject; and the rate payable for the time being will be inserted in each Bounty Ticket when issued.

The passage-money will be fixed with reference to the ages of the Immigrants at the time of embarkation, at a certain rate per statute adult of fourteen years of age or upwards, one half of which will be paid for children of three years and under fourteen years, and one quarter thereof for children under three years old. In the case of the death of an Emigrant during the voyage, one half of the rates so fixed will be paid.

8. Persons introducing Immigrants must provide for them on arrival.] - Persons who introduce Immigrants under these Regulations must provide for their reception on arrival.

Should it be found necessary to receive any such Immigrants into a Government establishment, a charge of two shillings a day, or part of a day, for each individual will be made against the introducer.

W. CHAMP

62. FORM No. 1

APPLICATION for the Introduction of Immigrants of the Labouring Classes

(Place and Date)

Sir, I am desirous of introducing into Van Diemen’s Land, under the Bounty Immigration Regulations of 24 January 1854, the under-mentioned Immigrants. [Here state the description of Immigrants, whether mechanics, labourers, domestic or other servants whether male or fernale, single or with families and whether to be employed by the Applicant or introduced as his relatives or friends, - in the latter case state the relationship, &c.] And I herewith enclose the sum of £ …….. [The payment required for each married couple including their sons and daughters, or for each married man or woman, or widower or widow, including his or her sons and daughters, is £5. The payment for each single man or woman applied for is £3.]

Sir, Your obedient Servant, Name ...... Occupation...... Address......

To the Immigration Agent at

SCHEDULE A

EMIGRATION from Europe to Van Diemen’s Land, under the Bounty Regulations of Van Diemen’s Land, dated 24th January 1854.

FAMILY BOUNTY TICKET

To be presented for payment at the Colonial Treasury, Hobart Town, within eighteen months from the date thereof.

Rate of passage-money payable on this Bounty Ticket.

For Emigrants from For Emigrants Description of Emigrant the United Kingdom from other parts of Europe £. s. d. £. s. d.

For each adult who may be at the time of embarkation fourteen years of age or upwards.

63. For each child of three years and under fourteen years......

For each child under three years In the event of the death of an Emigrant on the voyage, one half of the above rates will be paid.

No. Port of 185

I hereby certify that A. B., the applicant for this Bounty Ticket has paid to me the sum of Five Pounds in respect of the following Emigrants of the working class proposed to be introduced into Van Diemen’s Land from Europe by the said applicant; viz. - one married couple and their sons and daughters, or one married man or married woman, or widower or widow, with his or her sons and daughters.

Upon proof being given to the satisfaction of the Immigration Agent at Hobart Town or Launceston that the Emigrants in respect of whom the Bounty is claimed under this Ticket, have arrived in Van Diemen’s Land, or have died on the voyage thither, and provided it shall appear that the engagement printed upon the back of this Bounty Ticket has been executed by every Emigrant of the age of fourteen years or upwards, then the Immigration Agent will Certify upon this Ticket to the arrival or death on the voyage of the Emigrants and to the amount of passage-money payable; which amount will then be paid upon presentation of this Bounty Ticket at the Colonial Treasury within eighteen months after the date thereof (and not afterwards), either to the above-named applicant himself, or to the Commander of any vessel to whom this Ticket may be endorsed over by the said applicant (in the form given below), and by whom the Emigrants may be brought to Van Diemen’s Land.

The applicant will be at liberty to introduce a single adult male or female Emigrant under this Bounty Ticket instead of a family, subject to the above condition in which case payment will be made of the passage-money of one adult at the rate above specified, but no return of deposit will be made.

C. D.

Immigration Agent at

I hereby endorse over this Bounty Ticket to the Commander of any vessel in which the Emigrants therein described may be brought from Europe to Van Diemen’s Land.

Dated 185

E. F.

Applicant.

I hereby certify that the following Emigrants have arrived in Van Diemen’s Land under this Bounty Ticket, or have died on the voyage from Europe thither; and that the passage-money below stated is payable to A. B.

64.

£ s. d.

Brown, John, age 42, passage-money ...... “ , Mary, …...39 “ ………………………….. “ , James ……12 “ ………………………….. “ , Ellen …..10, died on voyage .………………………….

Total….£

Dated 185.

C. D. Immigration Agent at

ENGAGEMENT [On the back of the Bounty Ticket.]

Each of the undersigned, Emigrants to the Colony of Van Diemen’s Land under the Bounty Regulations of Van Diemen’s Land, dated 24th January 1854, in consideration of a passage to the said Colony being provided for him [or her] , hereby agrees not to leave the said Colony for the period of four years after his [or her] arrival there, without having previously paid to the immigration Agent at Hobart Town one-fourth of the cost of his [or her] said passage for every year wanting to complete four years’ residence in the Colony, and a proportionate sum for every part of a year.

[To be signed by all Emigrants who may at the time of embarkation be fourteen years of age or upwards.]

SCHEDULE B

BOUNTY TICKET for a Single Immigrant, similar to

Schedule A.

SCHEDULE C

EMIGRATION from Europe to Van Diemen’s Land under the Bounty Regulations of Van Diemen’s Land, dated 24th January, 1854.

FAMILY BOUNTY TICKET, to be filled up in Europe. To be presented for payment at the Colonial Treasury, Hobart Town, within eighteen months from the date thereof.

65. Rate of Passage-money payable on this Bounty Ticket.

For Emigrants from For Emigrants Description of Emigrant the United Kingdom from other parts of Europe £. s. d. £. s. d.

For each adult who may be at the time of embarkation fourteen years of age or upwards…………………

For each child of three years and under fourteen years

For each child under three years

In the event of the death of an Emigrant on the voyage, one-half of the above rates will be paid.

No. Port of 185

Whereas by the Immigration Regulations of Van Diemen’s Land, dated 24th January, 1854, it is declared that Bounty Tickets in blank will be forwarded to such Committees, Agents, or other persons as may be approved by the Colonial Government, in order that Emigrants selected by such Committees or persons may obtain a free passage to Van Diemen’s Land by the insertion of their names in such Bounty Tickets: I hereby certify that authority has been given by the Colonial Government to E. D. to insert in this Bounty Ticket the names of one married couple and their sons and daughters, or one married man or married woman, or widower or widow, with his or her sons and daughters, being Emigrants of the working class, such insertion being duly signed in the form following:-

DESCRIPTION of Emigrants selected for a Free Passage.

Morgan, Charles, age 34, Agricultural Labourer, “ , Charlotte, age 30, Laundress, wife of the above “ , James, age 7} “ , Mary, age 5 } children of the above

I hereby certify that the above-named [four] persons are nominated by me for a free passage to Van Diemen’s Land under this Bounty Ticket.

J. B. Secretary to Committee, Agent, &c. [as the case may be]

Upon proof being given to the satisfaction of the Immigration Agent at Hobart Town or Launceston that the Emigrants in respect of whom the Bounty is claimed under this Ticket have arrived in Van Diemen’s Land, or have died on the voyage thither; and provided it shall appear that the Promissory Note and the engagement which are printed upon the back of this Bounty Ticket, have been executed by the Emigrants to whom they apply, then the Immigration Agent will certify upon this Ticket to the arrival or death on the voyage of the Emigrants, and the amount of passage-money payable, which amount will then be paid upon presentation of this Bounty Ticket

66. at the Colonial Treasury within eighteen months after the date thereof (and not afterwards) to the Commander of any vessel to whom this Ticket may be endorsed over (in the form given below) by the Committee, Agent, or other person above-named as authorised to nominate Emigrants for passages, and by whom the Emigrants may be brought to Van Diemen’s Land.

C. D. Immigration Agent at

I hereby endorse over this Bounty Ticket to the Commander of the (Barque Magnus Troil), or to the Commander of any vessel in which the Emigrants therein described may be brought from Europe to Van Diemen’s Land.

Dated

J. B. Secretary to Committee, Agent, &c. [as the case may be.]

I hereby certify that the following Emigrants have arrived in Van Diemen’s Land under this Bounty Ticket, or have died on the voyage from Europe thither; and that the passage-money below stated is payable to A. B.

£. s. d.

Morgan, Charles, age 34, passage-money ...... “ , Charlotte, age 20, “ ...... “ , James, age 7, “ …...... “ , Mary, age 5, ” ……………………....

Total £

Dated

C. D.

Immigration Agent at

[On back of the Ticket]

PROMISSORY NOTE

£5 0 0

Six months after the date of my arrival in the Colony of Van Diemen’s Land I promise to pay to the Immigration Agent at Hobart Town the sum of Five Pounds on account of a Passage to that Colony provided for myself and family under the Bounty Regulations of Van Diemen’s Land, dated 24 January 1854.

[To be signed by the father or other head of the family emigrating.]

67. ENGAGEMENT

As in Schedule A.

[To be signed by all Emigrants under fourteen years of age or upwards, whether parents or otherwise.]

SCHEDULE D BOUNTY TICKET for a Single Emigrant, similar to Schedule C

BOARD OF IMMIGRATION Notice No. 1

1st March, 1856.

The Board of Immigration having approved of the following Regulations for the promotion of Immigration to Tasmania, they are published for general information; the former Regulations on the same subject, dated 24th January, 1854, being from this date revoked and cancelled, except in so far as may be necessary to give effect to applications already received and acted upon.

W. CHAMP, President P. FRASER H. BUTLER T. D. CHAPMAN A. McNAUGHTAN

BOUNTY REGULATIONS for the Introduction of Mechanics, Labourers, and Domestic or other Servants into Tasmania from any Part of Europe.

1. Application and payment to be made to the immigration Agent.] - Persons who may desire to avail themselves of these Regulations must apply in writing to the Immigration Agent at Hobart Town or Launceston, in accordance with Form No. 1, stating the particulars therein required, and making the payments there specified, viz., - the sum of £3 in respect of every single Immigrant of the age of fourteen years and upwards, and £5 in respect of every family.

2. Bounty Tickets to be issued transferable to Masters, Owners, or Agents of Vessels, but to no other persons.] - The Immigration Agent, on receiving such applications and payments, and being satisfied that the applicants intend to employ in the Colony the Immigrants proposed to be introduced, will deliver to the applicants Bounty Tickets in the form set forth in Schedules A and B, for the payment of the whole passage-money of the immigrants applied for, at the rate fixed for the time being in the manner herein declared by Regulation 7; and the passage-money set forth in every such Bounty Ticket shall, under the conditions laid down in Regulation 3, be payable at the Colonial Treasury on the arrival of the Immigrants, either to the applicant himself, or to the master, owner, or agent of the vessel in which they may be brought to Hobart Town or Launceston, as specified in the Bounty Ticket, should such Bounty Ticket have been endorsed over by the applicant in the form specified on the Ticket.

68. 3. Conditions on which Bounty Tickets will be payable.] - The Immigration Agent at Hobart Town or Launceston must be satisfied that the Emigrants named or described in the Bounty Ticket when issued have been sent for to Europe subsequently to the date of the Bounty Ticket, and have been conveyed to Hobart Town or Launceston as required in the Ticket, or have died on the voyage thither, and also that the engagement printed on the back of the Bounty Ticket, (by which the Emigrant agrees not to leave Tasmania within four years after arrival, or otherwise before leaving that Colony to make to the Immigration Agent at Hobart Town repayment towards his or her passage-money at the rate of one-fourth of such passagemoney for every year wanting to complete four years residence, and a proportionate sum for every part of a year), shall have been duly executed by every Emigrant of the age of fourteen years or upwards.

The following conditions regarding the Emigrants must also have been observed to the satisfaction of the Board of Immigration of the Colony; viz. -

The Emigrants shall have been during the voyage treated as bona fide steerage or intermediate passengers. During the voyage, and while in any port, the Emigrants shall have been provisioned and supplied with medical comforts and water according to the scale and quality required for the time being to be observed for Emigrants in ships chartered by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, including fresh provisions and vegetables. Ten clear running days, reckoning from noon after the arrival of the ship at the usual place of disembarkation in the Colony, shall have been allowed, if required, for the disembarkation of the Emigrants; during which time they shall have been accommodated in the same manner as during the voyage, and provisioned and allowed water and medical comforts as above required. And further, with regard to ships required by the Passengers Act, 1855, to carry a Medical Practitioner, the following rules shall have been observed; viz.-they shall be of the first class, and from the time of arrival in Tasmania, and during the above-mentioned ten days, such directions shall have been observed as may have been given to the Master on the part of the Colonial Government regarding the place of anchorage of the ship, the admission of persons on board, and arrangements for the management, hiring, or otherwise disposing of the Emigrants. Emigrants from the United Kingdom shall not have been introduced by the. way of any of the Australian Colonies. Whether the ship be divided into compartments and fitted with enclosed berths or not, the single women shall have been during the voyage berthed in the after part of the ship in a compartment divided off from the space appropriated to the other passengers by a substantial and well-secured bulkhead. There shall have been separate hospitals for males and females, at all times clear and ready for use. The Medical Practitioner shall have been required to keep a journal similar to that required for the time being in ships chartered by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners.

When the number of single women without natural protectors equals or exceeds five, a Matron shall have been appointed to take charge of them subject to the directions of the Master, and liable to be removed by him for misconduct or incapacity; and in the care and superintendence of the single women the rules contained in the instructions issued for the time being for Matrons of ships chartered by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners shall, as far as possible, have been observed. The Emigrants shall have been landed as directed by the Colonial Government, with their baggage, at the expense of the ship.

These conditions having been observed, then the Immigration Agent will certify upon the Ticket the arrival or death on the voyage of the Emigrant, and the amount of passage-money payable, which amount will then be paid upon the presentation of the Bounty Ticket at the Colonial Treasury within eighteen months after the date thereof (and not afterwards) either to the applicant himself, or to the Master, Owner, or Agent of any vessel, as provided in Regulation 2.

69. The applicant will be at liberty to introduce a single adult male or female Emigrant under this Bounty Ticket instead of a family, subject to the above conditions; in which case the bounty will be paid for one adult, but no return of deposit will be made.

With regard to the Blank Bounty Tickets referred to in Rule 6, the following condition must also have been observed; viz.

The Emigrants on account of whom the bounty is claimed shall have been bona fide selected by the Committee, Agent, or other person named in the Ticket as authorised for that purpose, or under his or their directions, and there shall have been no substitution or alteration of persons, names, or descriptions.

4. Promotion of the Immigration of the Relatives or Friends of Persons in the Labouring Classes residing in Tasmania.] - To promote the immigration and settlement in Tasmania of the relatives or friends of persons in the working classes residing in that Colony, and bona fide of the labouring classes, it is hereby provided that, on application and payment being made by such persons, in the manner set forth in Regulation 1, for the introduction of relatives or friends in the labouring classes, the Immigration Agent, on being satisfied that the Emigrants applied for are of that description, and coming out to live by labour, will, in the manner specified in Regulation 2, deliver to the applicants Bounty Tickets to which the foregoing conditions shall apply.

5. Payments may be returned.] - Persons having sent to Europe for Immigrants under these Regulations, on showing reasonable cause for having failed to introduce them, may, by application at the Immigration Office from which the Bounty Tickets were issued, and on returning the tickets, obtain repayment of the money advanced by them.

6. Blank Bounty Tickets transmitted to Agents &c., in the United Kingdom or elsewhere to provide Passages for Emigrants selected by them.] - Blank Bounty Tickets in the form set forth in Schedules C and D will be transmitted to such Committees, Agents, or other persons in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, as may be considered by the Board of Immigration likely to advance the interests of Tasmania by sending out suitable Emigrants. Such Committees, Agents, or other persons will insert in the Tickets the names of the Emigrants, who will thus obtain a free passage at the rate fixed for the time being by the Board of Immigration of the Colony, in the manner herein declared by Regulation 7; subject to the conditions laid down above in Regulation 3, and to an engagement to be executed on the Bounty Ticket in the form thereon set forth to repay to the Emigration Agent at Hobart Town £3 for a single Immigrant, and £5 for a family, as part of the expense of their introduction.

7. Rates of Passage-money which will be paid on Bounty Tickets.] - The rate at which the Government of Tasmania will pay for the passages of immigrants from the United Kingdom, from other parts of Europe, or other countries or places from which it may at any future time be considered advantageous to encourage Immigration, will be fixed from time to time prospectively, and notified in the Hobart Town Gazette and newspapers, so as to give sufficient and timely notice on the subject; and the rate payable for the time being will be inserted in each Bounty Ticket when issued.

The passage-money will be fixed with reference to the ages of the Emigrants at the time of embarkation, at a certain rate for each person of twelve years of age or upwards, one half of which will be paid for children of three years and under twelve years, and one quarter thereof for children under three years old. In the case of the death of an Emigrant during the voyage, one half of the rates so fixed will be paid.

70. 8. Persons introducing Immigrants must provide for them on arrival.] - Persons who introduce Immigrants under these Regulations must provide for their reception on arrival.

Should any such Immigrants be received into a Government establishment, a charge of two shillings a day, or part of a day, for each individual will be made against the introducer.

9. Gratuities.] - Gratuities will be allowed to Officers and others on board Emigrant ships as follows; provided the Board of Immigration of the Colony shall be satisfied with the conduct of the persons claiming them toward the Emigrants, and the manner in which the duties have been performed, and in particular as regards the proper superintendence and protection of the single women; viz. -

₤ s. d.

The Commander on each Immigrant landed alive ...... 0 2 6 The Medical Officer, ditto ...... 0 2 6 The First Mate, ditt ...... 0 1 0 The Second Mate, ditto ...... 0 1 0 The person who serves out the provisions, &c ...... 0 1 0 The Matron:- For single women without natural protectors, in 2 0 0 number 5 and not exceeding 1 ...... Ditto, above 10 and not exceeding 2...... 3 0 0 Ditto, above 20 and not exceeding 50 ...... 5 0 0 When above 50, 2s. each on the whole number. The Cook, for souls landed alive each ...... 0 0 6 Hospital Assistants, one male and one female, for every soul landed 0 0 6 alive each ...... Any person who may have been appointed by the Master to act as Teacher during the voyage, - for each child above the age of four years and under twelve years, and for each person above that age who may have regularly attended 0 5 0 School ......

71. FORM No. 1

APPLICATION for the Introduction of Immigrants of the Labouring Classes.

(Place and Date) Sir, I am desirous of introducing into Tasmania, under the Bounty Immigration Regulations of March 1, 1856, the under-mentioned Emigrants, which Emigrants are to be conveyed to the Port of [state whether Hobart Town or Launceston.]

I hereby promise that, if any Bounty Ticket issued in my name, in consequence of this Application, shall be sold or transferred (except to the Master, Owner, or Agents of a ship as provided by the Bounty Regulations) or made use of to introduce any Emigrant by or on account of any other person than myself; or if any Emigrant shall be introduced under any such Bounty Ticket not of the description and not for the purposes herein stated, I will (independently of any penalty which may be legally provided in such cases) repay, upon demand, to the immigration Agent or Acting Immigration Agent at Hobart Town any money which may have been paid from the Public Funds of Tasmania upon any such Bounty Ticket. Also, that I will, in like manner, repay any excess of Bounty which may have been paid in consequence of any misrepresentation of the age of any Emigrant introduced under any such Bounty Ticket; and generally in like manner any payment which may have been made by the said Government in consequence of any misrepresentation or mis-statement in this Application, or which may be made by any person acting on my behalf, or by the said Emigrants or any of them. Also, to repay in like manner any Bounty which may be paid upon any Bounty Ticket issued in consequence of this Application for any Emigrant who may have gone to Europe from Tasmania, or any of the Australian Colonies, within four years previous to the date on which such Bounty Ticket may be issued.

And I herewith enclose the sum of £ I remain, Sir, Your obedient Servant.

Name - Occupation - Address -

To the Immigration Agent at

DIRECTIONS

State whether the Emigrants are to be employed in this Colony by the Applicant or introduced as his relatives or friends.

If the Emigrants are to be introduced as the relatives or friends of persons in the working class, state here as far as possible the sex, name, age, trade or occupation, address, relationship to the Applicant, the manner in which the Emigrants are to be employed, and any other particulars requisite for a satisfactory description of each individual.

72. If to be introduced as servants, the trade or calling of the Emigrants must be stated, also whether male or female, and single or with families, and, as far as possible, the name and address of the agent or other person in Europe by means of whom the Emigrants are to be sent out, and who may be referred to; and it is to be distinctly stated that the Emigrants will be introduced for the purpose of being employed by the Applicant in the Colony.

The payment required for each married couple, including their unmarried sons and daughters, or for each married man or woman, or widower or widow, including his or her unmarried sons and daughters, is £5. The payment for each single man or woman applied for is £3. No other relatives can be included in a family. Persons cannot be considered a family unless accompanying the parents, or one of them, or unless named or described in the Bounty Ticket when issued, but must otherwise each be paid for as a single man or woman.

Observe - When the Bounty Ticket is obtained, the Applicant must be careful, before sending it to Europe to endorse it over to the Master, Owner, or Agents of the ship bringing out the Emigrants, by signing his name to the form which will be found printed near the end of the Bounty Ticket, in order to enable such persons to receive the Bounty, as otherwise the Emigrants may not be able to obtain a passage.

PASSAGES

Persons requiring passages to Tasmania from the United Kingdom are recommended to apply to Messrs John Jaffray & Co., Great St. Helen’s, London; or to Messrs James Baines & Co., No. 6, Cook-street, Liverpool, the owners of the Black Ball Line of the Australian Packets, who grant Passages for the amount of the Bounty without additional charge. Such persons must not leave home till they receive a written reply stating the day they are to be on board with their baggage.

SCHEDULE A

EMIGRATION from Europe to Tasmania of Mechanics, Domestic Servants, and Labourers, under the Bounty Regulations of Tasmania, dated 1st March 1856.

FAMILY BOUNTY TICKET

(Not transferable)

Under which may be introduced, subject to the terms herein stated, one married couple and their unmarried sons and daughters, or one married man or married woman, or widower or widow, with his or her unmarried sons and daughters; or, instead of a family, one single adult male or female Emigrant, - all such persons being in accordance with the description below entered. Persons cannot be considered a family unless accompanying the parents or one of them, excepting such as may be named or described in this Bounty Ticket when issued. To be presented for Payment at the Colonial Treasury, Hobart Town, within eighteen months from the date thereof.

73. Rate of Passage-money payable on this Bounty Ticket.

Description of For Emigrants For Emigrants Emigrant. for the United from other parts Kingdom. of Europe.

£ s. d. £ s. d.

For each person who may be at the time of embarkation twelve years of age or upwards ......

For each child of three years and under twelve years ......

For each child under three years ......

In the event of the death of an Emigrant on the voyage, one-half of the above rates will be paid.

No. Hobart Town, 185

I hereby certify that A. B., the applicant for this Bounty Ticket, has paid to me the sum of Five Pounds in respect of the following Emigrants of the working class proposed to be introduced into Tasmania from Europe by the said applicant; and to be landed at the Port of [insert ‘Hobart Town’ or ‘Launceston.’]

Description of the Emigrants, to be inserted by the Immigration Agent at the time the Ticket is issued, as far as possible, and in which no alteration is to be made.

The Immigration Agent at Hobart Town or Launceston must be satisfied that the Emigrants abovenamed or described have been sent for subsequently to the date of this Ticket, and have arrived in Tasmania, having been conveyed to the Port above mentioned, or have died on the voyage thither, and that the Engagements printed upon the back of this Bounty Ticket have been executed by every Emigrant of the age of twelve years or upwards. The following Conditions must also have been observed regarding the Emigrants in respect of whom the Bounty is claimed, to the satisfaction of the Board of Immigration of the Colony: viz, -

CONDITIONS

The Emigrants shall have been during the voyage treated as bona fide Steerage or Intermediate Passengers.

During the voyage, and while in any Port, the Emigrants shall have been provisioned and supplied with medical comforts and water, according to the scale and quality required for the time being to be observed for Emigrants in ships chartered by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, including fresh provisions and vegetables.

Ten clear running days, reckoning from noon after the arrival of the ship at the usual place of disembarkation in the Colony, shall have been allowed (if required) for the disembarkation of the Emigrants, during which time they shall have been accommodated in the same manner as during the voyage, and provisioned and allowed water and medical comforts as above required.

74. And further, with regard to ships required by the Passengers Act, 1855, to carry a Medical Practitioner, the following Rules shall have been observed:- They shall be of the first class, and from the time of arrival in Tasmania, and during the abovementioned ten days, such directions shall be observed as may be given to the Master on the part of the Colonial Government regarding the place of anchorage of the ship, the admission of persons on board, and arrangements for the management, hiring, or otherwise disposing of the Emigrants.

Emigrants from the United Kingdom shall not have been introduced by the way of any of the Australian Colonies.

Whether the Ship be divided into compartments and fitted with enclosed berths or not, the single women shall have been during the voyage berthed in the after part of the Ship, in a compartment divided off from the space appropriated to the other Passengers by a substantial and well-secured Bulk-head.

There shall have been separate Hospitals for males and females, at all times clear and ready for use.

The Medical Practitioner shall have been required to keep a journal similar to that required for the time being in Ships chartered by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners.

When the number of single women on board without natural protectors equals or exceeds Five, a Matron shall have been appointed to take charge of them, subject to the directions of the Master, and liable to be removed by him for misconduct or incapacity; and, in the care and superintendence of the single women, the rules contained in the instructions issued for the time being for Matrons of Ships chartered by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners shall, as far as possible, have been observed.

The Emigrants shall have been landed as directed by the Colonial Government, with their baggage, at the expense of the Ship.

These Conditions having been observed, the immigration Agent will certify upon this Ticket to the arrival or death on the voyage of the Emigrants, and to the amount of passage-money payable; which amount will then be paid upon presentation of this Bounty Ticket at the Colonial Treasury within eighteen months after the date thereof (and not afterwards), either to the abovenamed applicant himself, or to the Master, Owner, or Agents of any vessel to whom this Ticket may be endorsed over by the said applicant (in the form given below), and in which vessel the Emigrants may be brought to the Port abovenamed.

The applicant will be at liberty to introduce a single adult male or female Emigrant under this Bounty Ticket instead of a family, subject to the above conditions, in which case payment will be made of the passage-money of one adult at the rate above specified, but no return of deposit will be made.

Immigration Agent

I hereby endorse over this Bounty Ticket to the [here insert ‘Commander’, ‘Owner’, or ‘Agents’, as may be desired] of any vessel in which the Emigrants herein above described may be brought from Europe to Tasmania.

Dated 185

Signature of Applicant.

75. CAUTION - This Endorsation must be signed before the Ticket is sent to the United Kingdom in order to enable Shipowners to grant a Passage to the Emigrants.

I hereby certify that the following Emigrants have arrived at , under this Bounty Ticket, or have died on the voyage from Europe thither; and that the passage - money below stated is payable to [Commander, Owner, or Agents].

Name Age £ s. d.

Total ..

Dated

Immigration Agent

[On the back of the Bounty Ticket.]

ENGAGEMENT

Each of the undersigned Emigrants to the Colony of Tasmania under the Bounty Regulations of Tasmania, dated 1st March 1836, in consideration of a passage to the said Colony being provided for him [or her] and for his [or her] children under twelve years of age (if any), hereby agrees not to leave the said Colony for the period of four years after his [or her] arrival there, without having previously paid to the Immigration Agent at Hobart Town one-fourth of the cost of his [or her] said passage, and the passage of his [or her] children under twelve years of age (if any) for every year wanting to complete four years' residence in the Colony, and a proportionate sum for every part of a year; and also agrees to conform, during the passage and while in port (with his or her children) to all or any of the rules and regulations directed to be observed for the time being in Emigrant Ships chartered by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, if required to do so by the Master or Medical Officer of the Ship in which the said passage or passages may be provided.

(To be signed by all Emigrants who may at the time of embarkation be twelve years of age and upwards.)

CAUTIONS AND ADDITIONAL DIRECTIONS

The sale or transfer of a Bounty Ticket, the alteration of names, substitution of persons, or any fraud or misrepresentation regarding Emigrants introduced under it, or regarding the purpose of their introduction, will render the person to whom the Ticket is issued liable to repay any money which may be paid from the Public Funds of Tasmania upon such Ticket, and also to a Penalty not exceeding £50.

Relatives or friends of persons in the working class in Tasmania are recommended to provide themselves with satisfactory certificates that they are the persons they are represented to be, and that any particulars stated regarding them are correct.

76. Persons sending Bounty Tickets to Europe should be careful to sign the form of endorsation (given on the other side) to the Master, Owner, or Agents of the Ship bringing out the Emigrants, in order to enable such persons to receive the Bounty, as otherwise the Emigrants may not be able to obtain a passage.

Masters of vessels should be careful to have the Bounty Tickets for Emigrants ready to produce to the Immigration Agent, together with the Emigrants on board immediately after arrival. Masters should also be careful that no Emigrants under Bounty Tickets leave the vessel after arrival before they have been inspected by the immigration Agent or his Deputy. The neglect of these precautions may occasion much inconvenience, as well as delay and difficulty, in obtaining payment of the Bounty.

Persons requiring passages to Tasmania from the United Kingdom are recommended to apply to Messrs John Jaffray & Co., Great St. Helen's, London; or to Messrs James Baines & Co., No. 6, Cook-street, Liverpool, owners of the Black Ball line of Australian Packets, who grant passages for the amount of the Bounty without additional charge.

Such persons must not leave home till they receive a written reply stating the day they are to be on board with their baggage.

GRATUITIES

The following Gratuities will be allowed for Vessels required by the Passenger Act to carry a Medical Practitioner, provided the Board of Immigration in the Colony shall be satisfied with the conduct of the persons claiming them towards the Emigrants, and the manner in which the duties have been performed; and in particular as regards the proper superintendence and protection of the single women by the Master, Medical Officer, and Matron.

The duties are to be performed, if required, until the expiration of the ten days after arrival, during which the Emigrants are to be maintained on board.

£. s. d.

The Master on each Immigrant landed alive ...... 0 2 6 The Medical Officer, ditto ditto ...... 0 2 6 The First Mate, ditto ditto ...... 0 1 0 The Second Mate, ditto ditto ...... 0 1 0 The Person who serves out the Provisions...... 0 1 0 The Matron:- For single women without natural protectors, - In number 5 and not exceeding 10 ...... 2 0 0 Above 10 and not exceeding 20 ...... 3 0 0 Above 20 and not exceeding 50...... 5 0 0 When above 50, 2s. each on the whole number. The Cook, for each person landed alive ...... 0 0 6 Hospital Assistants, one male and one female each, for every soul 0 0 6 landed alive ...... Any person who may have been appointed by the Master to act as, - Teacher during the voyage, for each child above the age of four years and under twelve years; and for each person above that age, which person may have regularly attended School ...... 0 5 0

77. SCHEDULE B

BOUNTY TICKET for a Single Immigrant, similar to

Schedule A

SCHEDULE C

EMIGRATION from Europe to Tasmania of Mechanics, Labourers, and Domestic Servants under the Bounty Regulations of Tasmania, dated 1st March 1856.

FAMILY BOUNTY TICKET, to be filled up in Europe

(Not transferable)

To be presented for Payment at the Colonial Treasury, Hobart Town, within Eighteen Months from the Date thereof.

Rates of Passage-money payable on this Bounty Ticket.

For Emigrants for the For Emigrants from Description of United Kingdom. other parts of Europe. Emigrant. £ s. d. £ s. d.

For each person who may be at the time of embarkation 12 years of age or upwards ......

For each child of three years and under 12 years ......

For each child under three years ......

In the event of the death of an Emigrant on the voyage, one-half of the above rates will be paid.

No. Hobart Town 185

Whereas by the Immigration Regulations of Tasmania, dated 1st March 1856, it is declared that Bounty Tickets in Blank will be forwarded to such Committees, Agents, or other persons as may be approved by the Board of Immigration of the Colony, in order that Emigrants selected by such Committees or persons may obtain a free passage to Tasmania by the insertion of their names and descriptions in such Bounty Tickets: I hereby certify that authority has been given by the Board of Immigration of the Colony to…………………...to insert in this Bounty Ticket the names of one married couple and their unmarried sons and daughters, or one married man or married woman, or widower or widow, with his or her unmarried sons and daughters, being Emigrants of the labouring class, such insertion being duly signed in the form following:-

78. DESCRIPTION of Emigrants selected for a Free Passage

Name Age Trade or Occupation

[To be inserted by the person herein named and no other]

I hereby certify that the abovenamed and described [insert number] persons are nominated by me for a free passage to Tasmania under this Bounty Ticket to be conveyed to the Port of [insert Hobart Town or Launceston.]

Signature Secretary to Committee, Agent, &c. [as the case may be] .

The Immigration Agent at Hobart Town or Launceston must be satisfied that the Emigrants above-named and described have arrived in Tasmania, having been conveyed to the Port abovementioned, or have died on the voyage thither; and that the Promissory Note and Engagement, printed upon the back of this Bounty Ticket, have been executed by the Emigrants to whom they apply. The following Conditions must also have been observed regarding the Emigrants in respect of whom the Bounty is claimed, to the satisfaction of the Board of Immigration of the Colony; viz.-

CONDITIONS

The Emigrants on account of whom the Bounty is claimed shall have been bona fide selected by the Committee, Agent, or other person abovenamed as authorised for that purpose, or under his or their directions, and there shall have been no substitution or alteration of persons, names, or descriptions.

The Emigrants shall have been during the voyage treated as bona fide steerage or intermediate passengers.

During the voyage, and while in any Port, the Emigrants shall have been provisioned and supplied with Medical comforts, and water, according to the scale and quality required for the time being to be observed for Emigrants in ships chartered by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, including fresh provisions and vegetables. Ten clear running days, reckoning from noon after the arrival of the ship at the usual place of disembarkation in the Colony, shall have been allowed (if required) for the disembarkation of the Emigrants, during which time they shall have been accommodated in the same manner as during the voyage, and provisioned and allowed water and medical comforts as above required.

And farther, with regard to ships required by the Passengers Act, 1855, to carry a Medical Practitioner the following rules shall have been observed:-

They shall be of the first class, and, from the time of arrival in Tasmania, and during the above-mentioned ten days, such directions shall be observed as may be given to the Commander on the part of the Colonial Government, regarding the place of anchorage of the ship, the admission of persons on board, and arrangements for the management, hiring, or otherwise disposing of the Emigrants.

Emigrants from the United Kingdom shall not have been introduced by the way of any of the Australian Colonies.

79. Whether the ship be divided into compartments and fitted with enclosed berths or not, the single women shall have been during the voyage berthed in the after part of the ship, in a compartment divided off from the space appropriated to the other passengers by a substantial and well-secured bulk-head.

There shall have been separate hospitals for males and females, at all times clear and ready for use.

The Medical Practitioner shall have been required to keep a journal similar to that required for the time being ships chartered by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners.

When the number of single women on board without natural protectors equals or exceeds five, a matron shall have been appointed to take charge of them, subject to the directions of the Master, and liable to be removed by him for misconduct or incapacity, and, in the care and superintendence of the single women, the rules contained in the instructions issued for the time being for matrons of ships chartered by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners shall, as far as possible have been observed.

The Emigrants shall have been landed as directed by the Colonial Government with their baggage at the expense of the ship.

These conditions having been observed, the Immigration Agent will certify upon this Ticket to the arrival or death on the voyage of the Emigrants, and the amount of passage-money payable, which amount will then be paid upon presentation of this Bounty Ticket at the Colonial Treasury within eighteen months after the date thereof (and not afterwards) to the Master, Owner, or Agents of any vessel to whom this Ticket may be endorsed over (in the form given below) by the Committee, Agent, or other person above-named as authorised to nominate Emigrants for passages, and in which vessel the Emigrants may be brought to the port abovenamed.

Immigration Agent.

I hereby endorse over this Bounty Ticket to the [here insert Commander, Owner, or Agents as may be desired] of the ……………………or to the [here insert Commander, Owner, or Agents as may be desired] of any vessel in which the immigrants herein described may be brought from Europe to Tasmania.

Dated Signature

Secretary to Committee, Agent, &c., [as the case may be.]

I hereby certify that the following Emigrants have arrived at ……………………………………………. under this Bounty Ticket, or have died on the voyage from Europe thither; and that the passage-money below stated is payable to [Commander, Owner, or Agents.]

Name Age £. s. d.

Total .. £ .

Dated

Immigration Agent.

80. Persons requiring passages to Tasmania from the United Kingdom are recommended to apply to Messrs John Jaffray and Co., Great St. Helen’s, London; or to Messrs James Baines and Co., No. 6, Cookstreet, Liverpool, owners of the `Black Ball' line of Australian Packets.

[On Back of Ticket]

PROMISSORY NOTE

£5 0 0

On demand after my arrival in the Colony of Tasmania I promise to pay to the Immigration Agent at Hobart Town the sum of Five Pounds on account of a Passage to that Colony provided for myself and family under the Bounty Regulations of Tasmania, dated 1st March 1856.

[To be signed by the Father or other head of the family emigrating.]

ENGAGEMENT

[As in Schedule A]

CAUTION AND ADDITIONAL DIRECTIONS

Masters of vessels should be careful to have the Bounty Tickets for Emigrants ready to produce to the Immigration Agent, together with the Emigrants on board immediately after arrival. Masters should be careful that no Emigrants under Bounty Tickets leave the vessel after arrival before they have been inspected by the immigration Agent or his Deputy. The neglect of these precautions may occasion much inconvenience as well as delay and difficulty in obtaining payment of the Bounty.

GRATUITIES

[As in Schedule A]

SCHEDULE D

BOUNTY TICKET for a Single Immigrant, similar to Schedule C.

W. CHAMP, President. P. FRASER. H. BUTLER. T. D. CHAPMAN. A. McNAUGHTAN.

81. AN ACT to amend The Immigration Act, 1855

[11 October 1867]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. The Act of Council of the 19th Victoria, No. 18, may be cited as The Immigration Act, 1855, Short title and this Act may be cited as The Immigration Act, 1867.

2. It shall be lawful for the Board of Immigration to appoint Agents for the purposes of this Act. Appointment of Agents for Emmigration.

3. Such Agents shall make all necessary arrangements and provision for the selection of Agents’ duty in Emigrants, and shall furnish information and issue all notices, and do things relating to Emigration o respect of the Tasmania that the Board of Immigration from time to time direct in pursuance of this Act. selection and conveyance of Emigrants.

4. Every such Agent shall issue to each Emigrant whom he approves as suitable, and who has not Agents to issue Land previously resided in the Colony, and who proceeds direct from Europe to Tasmania, and who pays the Order Warrants. full cost of the passage of himself or any other person being a member of his own family, and approved as aforesaid, a Land Order Warrant, which shall specify the names and ages, as well of the person to whom it is issued, as also of the Emigrant or respective Emigrants on account of the payment of whose passage money the same is issued.

5. Such Land Order Warrant shall entitle the holder thereof to receive, immediately on his arrival Value of Land Order in the Colony, one Land Order in respect of each person named therein as the Emigrant or Emigrants Warrants. whose passage-money has been paid in full by the person to whom such Order was issued as aforesaid; and all such Land Orders shall be of the respective nominal values of Eighteen Pounds for each Emigrant of the age of Fifteen years or upwards, and Nine Pounds for each Emigrant child between the ages of Twelve months and Fifteen years, according to the ages respectively specified in such Land Order Warrants as aforesaid.

6. Every such Land Order shall be available to its full nominal value, and be received in payment Land Orders by the Commissioner of Crown Lands for or on account of the purchase money for any Waste Lands available as payment sold at any Government sale, or selected for purchase under The Waste Lands Act, 1863. for land.

7. Any person arriving in the Colony with the intention of settling therein, fromEurope or India, Issue of certicates to whose passage-money to the Colony is paid by himself as a cabin or intermediate passenger, and who persons not receiving has not previously received or accepted a Land Order as hereinbefore provided, shall, at any time Land Orders. within Twelve months after his arrival in the Colony be entitled to demand from the Board of Immigration, and shall thereupon receive, a certificate authorising such person to select Thirty acres of land; and in case such person arrives under the circumstances aforesaid with a family, then such person shall be entitled to a further certificate authorising him to select twenty acres within twelve

82. months after the arrival of his wife (if any), and also a further certificate authorising him to select ten acres in respect of each child within twelve months after the arrival of such child in Tasmania, such selections to be made within twelve months after the date of such certificates; and every such certificate shall be received in payment by the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the purchase money of any Waste Lands selected by virtue of such certificate for purchase under the Nineteenth Section of To be available as The Waste Lands Act, 1863. payment for land.

8. No person who pays the purchase money for any Waste Lands of the Crown by virtue of any Five years residence such Land Order, or who selects land under any such certificate as aforesaid, shall be entitled to claim before Grant. a Grant from the Crown of the land so paid for or selected until he has resided for five years in Tasmania: Provided that, in case he should die before he has resided for five years in Tasmania, his heir-at-law or devisee, as the case may be, shall be forthwith entitled to a Grant of the said land: And provided further, that in case any such person ceases to reside in Tasmania before the expiration of five years after his arrival, the land so purchased by virtue of any such Land Order or selected under any such certificate shall revert to the Crown and become Waste Land.

9. This Act and The Immigration Act, 1855, shall be read and construed together as one and the Acts to be read same Act. together.

IMMIGRATION OFFICE 11th May 1868.

The Immigration Commissioners have agreed to appoint an Agent to carry out the provisions of the Act of Parliament, 31st Victoria, No. 26, at the following rate of remuneration; namely, - Salary £250 per annum, and an allowance at the rate of £1 for each Immigrant landed in the Colony of the age of 18 years and upwards, and 10s. for each child under 18 years of age.

The Commissioners have also approved of the following allowances in connection with this appointment: - £ For Offices, actual rent not to exceed per annum ...... 100 For a Clerk...... 50 For Advertising actual cost not exceeding ...... 200 For Travelling Expenses, actual amount not exceeding...... 150 For Postages and Petty Expenses, not exceeding ...... 25

The Agent to pay his own passage-money, and his salary to commence from the date of his embarkation for England.

Persons desirous of being appointed Emigration Agent are requested to apply by letter, addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Immigration, on or before Tuesday, the 26th instant.

RICHARD DRY, President.

83. With reference to the above notice, the Immigration Commissioners desire to notify that, under the provisions of the Act of Parliament, 31st Victoria, No. 26, the Agent appointed is authorised to issue to each Immigrant proceeding direct from Europe to Tasmania of whom he may approve, and who pays the cost of his own passage and that of the members of his family, a Land Order Warrant, which will entitle the Emigrant upon his arrival to a Land Order of the nominal value of eighteen pounds for each Immigrant named in the Warrant of the age of fifteen years and upwards, and nine pounds for each child so named between the ages of twelve months and fifteen years.

These Land Orders will be available as payment on account of the Purchase Money for any waste lands of the Crown sold at any Government Sale, or selected for purchase under The Waste Lands Act, 1863.

The Agent will be directed to restrict the issue of Land Order Warrants to such Emigrants only as may appear to him likely to prove themselves self-supporting and industrious Colonists.

The Commissioners are especially desirous to induce young and healthy Farming Men to avail themselves of the advantages offered by the Act; and the Agent will be instructed to afford all Emigrants to whom he may issue a Warrant every assistance in his power in the selection of ships, and in making arrangements for their embarkation.

B. TRAVERS SOLLY, Secretary.

TASMANIA

BOARD OF IMMIGRATION OFFICE

Hobart, 23rd December, 1882.

The following Regulations made by the Board of Immigration under the provisions of the Act of Parliament 46 Viet. No. 40, and approved by the Governor in Council are published for general information.

Forms of Application for ‘Passage Certificates’ can be obtained upon application to the Immigration Agent in Hobart or Launceston, also from the Wardens of Rural Municipalities, and Police or Stipendiary Magistrates, and the Emigration Agent in London.

Wm. MOORE, President.

1. To meet the public convenience, persons resident in the Colony who may desire to introduce immigrants in accordance with these Regulations shall be entitled to nominate such Immigrants, and to deposit the necessary sum or sums in trust with the Agent for immigration, at the Immigration Office, Hobart or Launceston, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., and, in the country districts, with the Wardens of Rural Municipalities, or Police or Stipendiary Magistrates, or other authorised person, as the case may be, during the usual office hours: provided that no person shall, without the consent of the Board, be entitled to nominate more Emigrants within any one year than shall be equivalent to twenty Statute Adults. All applications for Passage Certificates on account of such nominated Emigrants to be forthwith forwarded by the person receiving the same, in Launceston or any country district, to the Immigration Agent, Hobart. Such nominations will be subject, however, to the approval of the Emigration Agent in England, and the rules of selection prescribed by these Regulations as in cases where no such nominations have been made.

84. 2. In the event of any person or persons nominated in the Colony for a passage declining to emigrate, or not being able to comply with the conditions required by these Regulations, or in case the amount deposited shall exceed that required for the number of Immigrants actually introduced, the amount deposited, or the amount in excess, as the case may be, will be returned to the depositor upon the receipt in the Colony of the Emigration Agent’s report recommending its repayment. But if any attempt at fraud or concealment be made by the depositor or by the nominee under the certificate the deposit will be forfeited.

3. The selection of Emigrants shall be limited to such adult persons as can pay towards the cost of their passage to the Colony, or for whom has been paid in the Colony, the following sums respectively -

Adult males ...... £5 for each person. Adult females ...... £3 for each person. Married couples ...... £6 Children, accompanied by their parents or parent, under 3 years of age, free.

Children between the ages of 3 and 12, half the amount payable by adults. Provided that the amount to be deposited on account of themselves and their children under 12 years of age shall not exceed £12. All children above the age of 12 years at the time of embarkation to be deemed ‘Adults’.

4. All Emigrants shall be selected by (or, if nominated in this Colony, shall be subject to the approval of) the Emigration Agent, or by such persons as he may appoint for the purpose, under instructions from the Board of Immigration, provided such instructions shall not be contrary to these Regulations.

5. All Emigrants must be of sound mental and bodily health, and of good moral character, and shall consist either of married persons not exceeding 45 years of age (with or without children), or of unmarried men and women not exceeding 40 years of age, except under special circumstances approved by the Board; and shall be selected from the classes of agriculturists, mechanics, skilled and other labourers and domestic servants with a special view to the industrial requirements of the Colony, and the fluctuations affecting those requirements as reported from the Colony from time to time. Should the age of any intending Emigrant exceed the limits herein prescribed, the sum payable on his or her account shall be £15.

6. The person introducing any nominated Immigrant under a Passage Certificate issued by the Board of Immigration who shall be found upon arrival not to be in accordance with the description given in the application shall be liable to repay to the Immigration Agent, on demand, any money which may have been paid from Public Funds on account of such Immigrant.

7. The ‘Engagement’ set out in the Passage Certificate must be signed by the Emigrant (for himself and family), agreeing not to leave Tasmania within four years after arrival without having previously paid to the Immigration Agent at Hobart or Launceston one-fourth of the whole cost of the passage-money for every year wanting to complete four years residence in the Colony, and a proportionate sum for every part of a year. And if any Emigrant attempts to leave Tasmania contrary to such ‘Engagement’ he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £50, which may be recovered in a summary way in the mode prescribed by The Magistrates Summary Procedure Act.

85.

8. The proportion of unmarried men shall not exceed twenty-five per cent of the whole number of adult Emigrants.

9. A proportion of the Emigrants, not exceeding fifteen per cent of the whole, may be natives of European countries other than Great Britain and Ireland, who shall answer to the physical, moral, and industrial descriptions embodied in these Regulations.

10. The Emigrants must be brought out in ships chartered for that purpose by the Emigration Agent on behalf of Tasmania, or by such other means as may be approved of by him, and under such Regulations as he may make and prescribe for their moral and sanitary condition during the passage; subject to the approval of the Board of Immigration.

11. All deposits of money on account of the passages of Emigrants, except as provided for in section fourteen, shall be paid to the Emigration Agent in London, and shall be accounted for by him on behalf of the Government of Tasmania.

12. No money paid by persons non-residents in Tasmania on account of any passage or passages will be returned should the person or persons making such payment not avail himself or themselves of the passage or passages so provided; but the Emigration Agent, in cases where circumstances satisfactorily explained may prevent embarkation on the ship first arranged for, may authorise a passage or passages by a succeeding ship.

13. Immigrants by chartered ships shall be entitled to remain on board and will be provisioned at the ship's expense for seven clear days after the ship drops anchor in the port of arrival.

14. Every person authorised to receive deposits under these Regulations shall immediately on the receipt thereof remit the amount to the Agent for Immigration at Hobart, with a statement of the number and description of Immigrants whom the depositor wishes to introduce.

15. Forms of application, and all information for the guidance of depositors, can be obtained from the Wardens of Rural Municipalities or Police or Stipendiary Magistrates in the country districts, at the office of the Agent for Immigration in Hobart and Launceston, or in England from the Emigration Agent.

16. The passage certificate must be forwarded by the depositor to the nominee, who in every case must produce it within twelve months from the date thereof to the Emigration Agent in London.

17. A Quarterly Report shall be prepared under the instructions of the Board of Immigration, giving an account of the state of trade, of farming, mining, industrial operations, and domestic employment, including rates of wages, etc., and of the progress of the Colony generally; and copies of all such Reports shall be regularly transmitted to the Emigration Agent in London, in January, April, July, and October of each year for his information and guidance and for distribution amongst suitable districts in Great Britain.

18. Persons resident in the Colony who introduce Immigrants under these Regulations, otherwise than by chartered ships, must provide for their reception immediately on their arrival.

Should any such nominated Immigrants be received into an Immigration Depot, a charge of two shillings a day, or part of a day, for each individual will be made against the introducer.

19. Pending the arrival of the Emigration Agent in England, the Emigrant and Colonists’ Aid Corporation, 79'/2, Gracechurch-street, London, E.C., are empowered to act in all respects as the Agents of the Board as regards Emigrants nominated by persons in the Colony in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing Regulations.

20. These Regulations shall take effect on and after the 1st January, 1883.

86.

APPENDIX 5. RETURN OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS 1832-90

This list was compiled from shipping lists (1832-1843, 1856) and from Statistics of Tasmania (1851-1855, 1857-90).

YEAR NUMBER 1832 663 1833 787 1834 276 1835 493 1836 574 1837 554 1841 247 1842 1485 1843 3 093 1851 418 1852 220 1853 1 831 1854 4 172 1855 5 471 1856 963 1857 2 512 1858 479 1859 721 1860 820 1861 358 1862 583 1863 170 1864 118 1865 92 1866 53 1867 56 1868 56 1869 28 1870 342 1871 9 1872 199 1873 28

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YEAR NUMBER 1874 18 1875 16 1876 48 1877 7 1878 44 1879 56 1880 52 1881 59 1882 141 1883 598 1884 949 1885 582 1886 168 1887 183 1888 32 1889 19 1890 3

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APPENDIX 6. ASSISTED IMMIGRANT SHIPS 1832 - 1889.

Port of Departure Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Immigrants

1832: Jan. 18 Clyde Liverpool Hobart 38 May 30 Ann Jameson Leith via Cape Hobart 14 Apr. 9 Adventure Liverpool via Cape Hobart 29 Jun. 18 Rubicon London Hobart 15 Jul. 9 Marianne Sydney Hobart 11 Jul. 15 Norval Cork Hobart 24 Aug. 5 Waterloo Liverpool Hobart 5 Aug. 16 Wellington Liverpool Hobart 15 Sep. 6 Princess Royal London Hobart 200 Aug. 23 Mansfield London Hobart 41 Sep. 9 Mary London Hobart 14 Sep. 24 Sophia Sydney Hobart 12 Sep. 31 Minerva Leith Hobart 23 Oct. 6 Mountaineer Sydney Hobart 10 Oct. 14 Sarab Liverpool Hobart 19 Nov. 7 Lavinia Liverpool Hobart 19 Nov. 12 Mail Liverpool Hobart 19 Nov. 12 North Briton Leith Hobart 21 Nov. 12 Thomas Laurie London Hobart 17 Nov. 30 John Craig London Hobart 58 Dec. 6 Edward Lombe London via Cape Hobart 42 Dec. 7 Duckenfield London Hobart 12 Dec. 13 Palambam London Hobart 6 1833: Jan 30 Sir Thomas Munro The Downs Hobart 2

89.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1833: Feb. 12 Gulnare London Hobart 9 Mar. 1 Protector London Hobart 2 Mar. 2 Ellen London Hobart 6 Mar. 8 William Liverpool Hobart 19 Mar. 11 Chili London Launceston 5 Mar. 30 Enchantress London Hobart 7 Apr. 24 Henry Porcher London Hobart 29 Apr. 26 Macclesfield Liverpool Hobart 12 Mar. 1 Chili London Launceston 5 Mar. 30 Enchantress London Hobart 7 Apr. 24 Henry Porcher London Hobart 29 Apr. 26 Macclesfield Liverpool Hobart 12 Apr. 27 George Hibbert Gravesend Hobart 5 Jun. 26 Strathfieldsay Dublin Hobart 285 Jun. 26 Warrior London Hobart 21 Aug. 11 Thomas Leith Hobart 13 Aug. 12 Mary Ann Plymouth Hobart 8 Aug. 16 Curler London Hobart 12 Aug. 25 Cabotia Liverpool Hobart 33 Aug. 25 Sir John Rae Reid London Hobart 19 Sep. 9 Indiana London Hobart 15 Sep. 18 Locheil Leith Hobart 15 Sep. 30 Ann London Hobart 16 Sep. 30 Mary Catherine Liverpool Hobart 3 Oct. 9 Edward Colston Liverpool Hobart 22 Oct. 14 Drummore Leith Hobart 2 Oct. 23 Lady Last Liverpool Hobart 108 Oct. 23 Lonach London Hobart 2 Nov. 3 Eliza Dublin Hobart 49 Nov. 5 .Scotia Leith Hobart 6 Nov. 14 Wave London Hobart 5 1834: Jan. 3 Princess Victoria Liverpool Hobart 3 Feb. 18 Othello Liverpool Hobart 5 Aug. 15 Strathfieldsay Gravesend Hobart 238 Dec. 26 Cabotia Liverpool Hobart 30

90.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1835: Jan. 16 Royal Saxon Liverpool Hobart 11 Feb. 1 Thomas Harrison London & Hobart 3 Liverpool Feb. 15 Sarah Th Lizard Hobart 243 Apr. 18 Bachelor Liverpool Hobart 3 Nov. 20 Brothers London Hobart 4 Nov. 20 Charles Kerr London Launceston 229 1836: Feb. 3 Boadicea London Launceston 265 Aug. 20 Amelia Thompson London Launceston 309 1837: Jan. 5 Fairlie London Hobart 30 Jan. 24 William Metcalfe London Hobart 289 Dec. 12 Bussorah Merchant Cork Hobart 235 1841: Apr. 3 Adelaide London Launceston 1 May 5 Essex London Launceston 9 Jun. 25 Winwick London Hobart 22 Aug. 1 Countess Minto Leith Hobart 4 Aug. 11 Vestal London Launceston 2 Aug. 20 Ina London Launceston 2 Aug. 24 Arabian Bristol Launceston 67 Aug. 30 Andromeda London Launceston 45 Aug. 31 George Leith Hobart 14 Oct. 12 Tasmania London Hobart 54 Nov. 10 Glenbervie London Hobart 5 Nov. 17 Derwent London Hobart 14 Nov. 18 Noormahul London Launceston 1 Nov. 22 Calcutta London Hobart 1 Dec. 5 Psyche Bristol Launceston 4 1842: Jan. 6 Mary Hay London Launceston 9 Jan. 19 Henry London Launceston 7 Jan. 26 Prince of Orange Leith Hobart 13

91.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1842: Jan. 28 Sydney London Hobart 14 Mar. 31 Arab London Launceston 282 Apr. 6 Indian London Launceston 40 Apr. 23 Canada London Hobart 1 May 8 Corsair London Launceston 48 Jul. 4 Orleana London Hobart 266 Jul. 16 Tintern London Hobart 2 Jul. 21 Jane Blain London Hobart 34 Sep. 24 Apoline London via Hobart 222 Plymouth Oct. 5 Bolivar London Launceston 204 Oct. 27 Mona London Launceston 1 Nov. 9 Adelaide London Launceston 15 Nov. 9 Derwent London Hobart 10 Nov. 20 Vindictive China Hobart 7 Nov. 22 Royal Saxon London via Cork Launceston 73 Nov. 23 Calcutta London Hobart 3 Nov. 28 Sir Charles Napier Plymouth Hobart 220 Dec. 3 Munro Leith Hobart 11 Dec. 22 Auriga London Hobart 3 1843: Jan. 6 Tasmania London Hobart 4 Jan. 10 Royal Sovereign London via Cork Launceston 48 Jan. 28 King William London via Hobart 267 Plymouth Feb. 9 Elizabeth and Jane London Launceston 53 Mar. 27 Agostina London Launceston 2 Apr. 4 Brankemoor London via Cork Launceston 45 Apr. 10 John Renwick London Hobart 2

92.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1843: Jun. 23 Rajah Leith Hobart 5 Sep. 21 Psyche London Hobart 3 Oct. 16 Mandarin London Hobart 51 Nov. 3 Henry London Launceston 6 1851: Aug. 28 Beulah Plymouth Hobart 812 Oct. 3 Australasia The Downs Hobart 41 Nov. 2 Calcutta Plymouth Hobart 714 1852: Dec. 5 Australasia Plymouth Hobart 221 1853: Jan. 10 Louisa Plymouth Hobart 208 Jan. 20 Derwentwater London Hobart 26 Mar. 1 Midlothian Kingston Hobart 12 Mar. 6 Northumberland Liverpool Launceston 274 Apr. 27 Panama Liverpool Hobart 298 May 6 Mohammed Shah [burnt; to Hobart per Ellen] London Hobart 21 May 6 Eucalyptus Melbourne Hobart 17 May 12 Creole Melbourne Hobart 9 May 13 Flying Squirrel Melbourne Hobart 1 May 15 Thomas and Joseph Crisps London Launceston 7 May 22 Harriett Nathan Melbourne Hobart 12 May 28 Emma Prescott Melbourne Hobart 8 Jun. 13 Pryde Melbourne Hobart 10 Jun. 21 Circassian Melbourne Hobart 5 Jun. 22 Creole Melbourne Hobart 30 Jul. 1 Eucalyptus Melbourne Hobart 13 Jul. 7 Flying Squirrel Melbourne Hobart 32 Jul. 17 Tasmania Melbourne Hobart 6 Jul. 17 Coromandel Southhampton Hobart 344 Jul. 25 Harriett Nathan Melbourne Hobart 55

93.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1853: Jul. 25 Emma Prescott Melbourne Hobart 18 Jul. 31 Circassian Melbourne Hobart 9 Aug. 1 Euphemia Melbourne Hobart 39 Aug. 4 Creole Melbourne Hobart 30 Aug. 13 Pilot Melbourne Hobart 8 Aug. 14 Pryde Melbourne Hobart 26 Aug. 21 Eucalyptus Port Albert Hobart 43 Aug. 24 Sword Fish Melbourne Hobart 16 Aug. 31 Margaret Thompson Melbourne Hobart 16 Sep. 11 Emma Prescott Melbourne Hobart 7 Sep. 13 Harriett Nathan Melbourne Hobart 12 Sep. 15 Circassian Melbourne Hobart 14 Sep. 28 Euphemia Melbourne Hobart 3 Sep. 28 Creole Melbourne Hobart 20 Oct. 9 Eucalyptus Melbourne Hobart 12 Oct. 16 Sword Fish Melbourne Hobart 5 Oct. 20 Fortitude London Hobart 13 Oct. 22 Margaret Thompson Melbourne Hobart 3 Nov. 1 Emma Prescott Melbourne Hobart 6 Nov. 8 Creole Melbourne Hobart 24 Nov. 9 Harriett Nathan Melbourne Hobart 4 Nov. 11 Wellington London Hobart 14 Nov. 27 Eucalyptus Melbourne Hobart 11 Nov. 27 Euphemia Melbourne Hobart 5 Dec. 3 Sword Fish Melbourne Hobart 17 Dec. 14 Creole Melbourne Hobart 33 Dec. 17 Emma Prescott Melbourne Hobart 32 Dec. 23 Harriett Nathan Melbourne Hobart 13

94.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1854: Jan. 1 Eucalyptus Melbourne Hobart 3 Jan. 15 Euphemia Melbourne Hobart 12 Jan. 23 Sword Fish Melbourne Hobart 8 Feb. 1 Sir Allan McNab Liverpool Hobart 298 Feb. 14 Emma Prescott Melbourne Hobart 23 Feb. 20 Creole Melbourne Hobart 17 Feb. 23 Fingal London Launceston 4 Mar. 3 Eucalyptus Melbourne Hobart 42 Mar. 11 Pryde Melbourne Hobart 10 Mar. 18 Picard Melbourne Hobart 6 Mar. 27 Ann Bridson London Hobart 12 Apr. 5 Emma Prescott Melbourne Hobart 18 Apr. 18 Creole Melbourne Hobart 26 Apr. 18 Eucalyptus Melbourne Hobart 21 Apr. 29 Tasmania Melbourne Hobart 18 May 13 Tasmania Malbourne Hobart 46 May 25 Constance Melbourne Launceston 4 Jun. 9 Emma Prescott Melbourne Hobart 16 Jun. 17 Creole Melbourne Hobart 11 Jun. 17 Eucalyptus Melbourne Hobart 3 Jun. 24 Tasmania Melbourne Hobart 38 Jul. 4 Themis [from Melbourne per Lady Bird] Liverpool Launceston 1 Jul. 6 Picard Melbourne Hobart 7 Jul. 25 Llewellyn London Launceston 5 July 8 Tasmania Melbourne Hobart 27 Jul. 19 Star in the East [Black Swan from Melbourne] - Launceston 24 Jul. 22 Tasmania Melbourne Hobart 32 Jul. 25 Northumberland Southhampton Hobart 180

95.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1854: Jul. 27 Balmoral London Melbourne 25 Jul. 31 Creole Melbourne Hobart 22 Jul. 31 Emma Prescott Melbourne Hobart 11 Aug. 5 Tasmania Melbourne Hobart 20 Aug. 6 Eucalyptus Melbourne Hobart 22 Aug. 19 Tasmania Melbourne Hobart 54 Aug. 21 Juno London Launceston 24 Aug. 24 Prince of Wales London Launceston 12 Aug. 26 City of Hobart Melbourne Hobart 38 Aug. 26 Kingston Southampton Hobart 341 Aug. 26 Baltimore London Hobart 9 Sep. 2 Tasmania Melbourne Hobart 27 Sep. 10 Emma Prescott Melbourne Hobart 10 Sep. 12 City of Hobart Melbourne Hobart 34 Sep. 16 Creole Melbourne Hobart 13 Sep. 16 Banca London Launceston 2 Sep. 16 Maitland Plymouth Hobart 304 Sep. 19 Picard Melbourne Hobart 13 Sep. 19 Eucalyptus Melbourne Hobart 5 Sep. 23 City of Hobart Melbourne Hobart 18 Sep. 27 Reindeer Melbourne Hobart 15 Sep. 29 Caroline Middleton Liverpool Hobart 371 Sep. 30 Tasmania Melbourne Hobart 33 Oct. 7 Mousam Melbourne Hobart 11 Oct. 7 City of Hobart Melbourne Hobart 23 Oct. 20 Merlington London Launceston 136 Oct. 22 Creole Melbourne Hobart 19 Oct. 27 Colombus Plymouth Hobart 182 Oct. 30 Mooltan Southampton Hobart 257 Nov. 1 Eucalyptus Melbourne Hobart 16

96.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1854: Nov. 5 Wellington London Hobart 15 Nov. 20 Clasmerden [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 8 Nov. 22 Honduras London Hobart 1 Nov. 26 Derwentwater Plyouth Hobart 13 Dec. 3 Lima Falmouth Hobart 7 Dec. 6 Duchess of Northumberland Plymouth Hobart 256 Dec. 6 Antipodes London Hobart 7 Dec. 21 Mary Goddard London Hobart 2 Dec. 23 Mobile [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Dec. 23 Constance [City of Hobart from Melbourne] - Hobart 2 Dec. 24 Sterlingshire London Launceston 8 Dec. 25 William Hammond Plymouth Hobart 257 Dec. 25 Southern Cross London Hobart 5 1855: Jan. 3 Australasia The Downs Hobart 192 Jan. 5 Earl of Chester London Hobart 23 Feb. 3 Flora McDonald Liverpool Launceston 186 Feb. 13 Wanderer London & The Hobart 185 Downs Feb. 14 Duke of Lancaster London Hobart 2 Feb. 15 Fortitude Plymouth Hobart 147 Feb. 17 Shalimar [Lady Bird from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 4 Jul. 28 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] - Hobart 3 Feb. 19 James Baines [ Indian Queen from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 322 [Ocean Chief from Melbourne] Feb. 19 Indian Queen [Picked up James Baines immigrants in London via Hobart 193 Melbourne] Melbourne Feb. 19 Chatham London Hobart 147 Feb. 24 Fingal London Launceston 25 Mar. 23 Lightning England via Launceston 33 Melbourne

97.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1855: Mar. 25 Ocean Chief [picked up James Baines immigrants in Liverpool Hobart 129 Melbourne] Mar. 27 Raleigh Southampton Launceston 176 Mar. 31 Whirlwind London Launceston 255 Apr. 7 Commodore Perry Liverpool Launceston 429 Apr. 9 Eagle England via Launceston 5 Melbourne Apr. 23 Zeepard London Hobart 24 Apr. 26 Rienzi [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Dublin Hobart 3 Apr. 29 Annie Wilson Via Melbourne Launceston 4 May 9 Resolution London Launceston 1 May 18 Boomerang[ From Melbourne per City of Hobart] Liverpool Hobart 75 May 24 [From Melbourne per Clarence] - Launceston 22 May 24 Lewe van Nyenstein Hamburg Hobart 122 May 24 Mermaid [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 34 Jun. 6 Queen Victoria London Launceston 52 Jun. 7 Blanche Moore [Lady Bird from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 18 Jun. 14 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] - Hobart 4 Jun. 10 Katherine Sharer London Hobart 26 Jun. 25 Iceni London Launceston 8 Jun. 28 Augustus Cowes Hobart 12 Jun. 28 Montmorency Liverpool Launceston 86 Jun. 30 Marco Polo [City of Hobart from Melbourne Liverpool Hobart 57 Jul. 6 [Black Swan from Melbourne] - Launceston 5 Jul. 23 America Liverpool Hobart 246 Jul. 24 White Star[Lady Bird from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 12 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] - Hobart 132 Aug. 5 Senior London Hobart 6 Aug. 19 Miles Barton [Lady Bird from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 7

98.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1855: Aug. 19 Startled Faun [Lady Bird from Melbourne] England via Launceston 8` Sydney & Melbourne Aug. 21 [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 68 Aug. 26 Wilhelmsburg Hamburg Hobart 476 Aug. 27 Heather Bell London Hobart 15 Aug. 27 Storm Cloud Glasgow Launceston 352 Aug. 28 Henry Reid London Launceston 1 Sep. 3 Donald McKay [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 31 & Sep. 6 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] - Hobart 120 Sep. 28 Champion of the Seas [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 46 & Oct. 5 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] - Hobart 1 Oct. 9 Ben Nevis [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 51 & Oct. 20 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] - Hobart 12 Oct. 14 Conway Liverpool Hobart 296 Oct. 20 Shalimar [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 3 Oct. 29 James Baines [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 30 & Nov. 2 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] - Hobart 57 Nov. 2 San Francisco Hamburg Hobart 42 Nov. 14 Sussex [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] London Launceston 8 Nov. 17 Sea Nymph London Hobart 14 Nov. 23 Anglesey [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 Nov. 25 Arnon London Launceston 1 Nov. 26 Wellington London Hobart 4 Nov. 29 Lightning [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 20 Nov. 30 Emma [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 2

99.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1855: Dec. 2 Vice-Admiral Gobius London Hobart 18 Dec. 4 John Bell Greenock Hobart 207 Dec. 8 Red Jacket [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 6 Dec. 13 Derwentwater London Hobart 3 Dec. 31 Schomberg [Maid of Yarra from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 15 & Jan. 4 [Lady Bird from Melbourne] Launceston 26 &. Jan. 5 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 27 1856: Jan. 22 Indian Queen Liverpool via Hobart 59 Melbourne Jan. 5 [Also Lady Bird from Melbourne] Launceston 24 Jan. 5 Gipsy Bride [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 7 Jan. 17 Sultana [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 3 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 2 Jan. 19 La Hogue [Tasmania from Sydney] London Hobart 2 Jan. 28 Ocean Chief [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 30 & Feb. 2 [Lady Bird from Melbourne] Launceston 14 Feb. 13 Mermaid [Fenella from Melbourne] - Launceston 40 & Feb. 18 [Ant from Melbourne] Hobart 3 Feb. 14 Mercia London Hobart 3 Feb. 26 Marco Polo [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 8 & Feb. 29 [Maid of the Yarra from Melbourne] Launceston 3 Apr. 7 Earl of Sefton [Fenella from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 33 Apr. 23 Irene London Hobart 6 Jun. 6 Champion of the Seas [City of Hobart from Liverpool Hobart 2 Melbourne]

100.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1856: Jun. 7 [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Launceston 5 & Jun. 20 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Jul. 5 James Baines [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 4 Jul. 6 Shalimar [Ant from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 Sep. 5 Cleo Liverpool Hobart 6 Nov. 7 Eagle [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Dec. 2 Sir W. F. Williams Liverpool Hobart 336 Dec. 29 Woodcote London Hobart 62 Dec. 30 Alice Walton Liverpool Launceston 294 1857: Jan. 27 Neumublen Hamburg Hobart 3 Jan. 27 Great Tasmania Liverpool Hobart 522 Feb. 1 Ambrosine London Launceston 62 Mar. 17 Mercia London Hobart 53 Apr. 1 Broomielaw Glasgow Launceston 264 Jun. 1 Frotune Liverpool Launceston 121 Jul. 1 Prompt Liverpool Hobart 156 Jul. 21 Forest Monarch Glasgow Launceston 144 Jul. 25 Oriental London Hobart 67 Aug. 18 Sir W. F. Williams Liverpool Hobart 145 Aug. 28 Southern Eagle Liverpool Launceston 229 Sep. 13 Antipodes London Hobart 1 Oct. 3 Affiance London Launceston 4 Oct. 12 D. F. Weber Senior Hamburge Hobart 24 Oct. 31 Persian Liverpool Hobart 194 1858: Jan. 4 Aurora Australis London Hobart 68 Jan. 8 Pirate London Launceston 6 Feb. 22 Trade Wind London Hobart 292 Aug. 18 Constance [Oberon Hobart-Launceston] Gravesend via The Hobart 192 Downs Sep. 13 Antipodes London Hobart 3 Nov. 16 Champion of the Seas [Royal Shepherd from Liverpool Launceston 2 Melbourne] Nov. 26 Eastern City [City of Hobart from Melbourne] - Hobart 2

101.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1859: Jan. 1 Aurora Australis London Hobart 1 Jan. 14 Florence Nightingale [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 3 Mar. 25 Indus London Hobart 3 May 20 Marco Polo Liverpool via Hobart 3 Melbourne Jun. 26 Broadwater London Hobart 10 Jul. 24 Suffolk London Launceston 1 Aug. 5 Peter Maxwell [Melbourne July 22] Liverpool Melbourne 11 Aug. 6 Primula London Hobart 1 Aug. 12 Vater Smydt [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Aug. 12 Sir William Ayre [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool London 1 Aug. 31 Morning Light [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 14 & Sep. 7 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 43 Sep. 9 Oriental London Hobart 139 Oct. 3 Argonaut [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 15 Oct. 5 Heather Bell London Hobart 1 Oct. 7 Saldanha [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 3 Oct. 7 Ida [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 7 Oct. 21 Zambesia [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Oct. 23 Isles of the South London Hobart 10 Oct. 29 Harmonides [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 4 & Nov. 4 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 8 Nov. 12 Sussex [Black Swan from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Nov. 12 Champion of the Seas [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 7 Nov. 18 David G. Fleming [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 32 Nov. 26 Broomielaw Glasgow Launceston 225 Nov. 28 Antipodes London Launceston 3

102.

Port of Departure Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Immigrants

1859: Dec. 1 Ocean Chief [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 8 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 8 Dec. 1 Greyhound [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 9 Dec. 2 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 5 Dec. 4 Percy London Hobart 16 Dec. 21 Hooghly London Hobart 131 1860: Jan. 16 Hilton [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] - Launceston 14 Feb. 11 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 26 Jan. 25 Southampton [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] - Launceston 3 Jan. 25 White Star [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 6 & Feb. 11 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 4 Jan. 25 King of Algeria [ Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 13 & Feb. 11 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 6 Feb. 7 Dawn of Hope [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 28 & Feb. 11 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 2 Feb. 7 Marco Polo [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 9 & Feb. 11 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 4 Feb. 26 Eagle [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Mar. 16 Bheejapore [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] - Launceston 1 Apr. 12 British Trident [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 & Apr. 21 [North Star from Melbourne] Hobart 2 Apr. 24 Indiana Glasgow Launceston 234 Apr. 30 Red Jacket [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 4 May 7 Empire of Peace [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 16 May 7 Gipsy Bride [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 May 8 [Montezuma from Melbourne] Hobart 1

103.

Port of Departure Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Immigrants

1860: Jun. 22 S. Curling [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Jun. 25 Hope [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 9 & Jul. 6 [City of Hobart] Hobart 8 Jul. 6 Sussex [City of Hobart from Melbourne] London Hobart 5 Jul. 6 Young America [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 2 Aug. 17 Suffolk [City of' Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 2 Aug. 17 Commodore Perry [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 3 & Aug. 20 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 9 Aug. 17 Great Tasmania [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 4 & Aug. 20 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 2 Sep. 4 Queen of India [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Sep. 4 Champion of the Seas [Royal Shepherd from Liverpool Launceston 10 Melbourne] & Sep. 14 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 2 Sep. 4 Saldanha [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 17 & Sep. 14 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 4 Sep. 12 Elizabeth Ann Bright [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 10 & Sep. 14 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Oct. 9 Isles of the South London Hobart 106 Oct. 11 Ocean Chief [Black Swan from Melbourne] London Hobart 4 & Oct. 12 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 3 Oct. 30 Arabian [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 & Nov. 9 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 8 Nov. 8 Eagle [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 4 Nov. 8 Lord Raglan [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 8

104.

Port of Departure Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Immigrants

1860: Nov. 8 Lightning [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 & Nov. 9 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 12 Nov. 8 Empress of the Seas [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 & Dec. 29 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 2 Dec. 5 Antipodes London Launceston 160 Dec. 6 Percy London Hobart 6 Dec. 19 Kent [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Dec. 20 Blue Jacket [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 13 & Dec. 21 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 1 1861: Jan. 14 Marco Polo [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 & Jan. 18 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 2 Jan. 23 Aurora Australis London Hobart 103 Jan. 26 Blue Jacket [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 & Jan. 30 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 6 Jan. 26 Morning Light [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 16 & Jan. 30 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 3 & Feb. 2 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 3 Mar. 30 Green Jacket [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Apr. 10 Donald McKay [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 6 Apr. 13 Great Australia [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 & May [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Launceston 1 Apr. 28 Red Jacket [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 6 Jun. 13 David G. Fleming [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 Jun. 21 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 1

105.

Port of Departure Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Immigrants

1861: Jun. 20 Flowers of the Forest [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Jul. 4 Queen of the Mersey [Royal Shepherd from Liverpool Hobart Melbourne] Jul. 22 Prince Consort [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Jul. 22 King of Algeria [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 6 & Aug. 2 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Jul. 22 Champion of the Seas [Royal Shepherd from Liverpool Launceston 4 Melbourne] & Aug. 2 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 8 Jul. 24 Ocean Chief [Havillah from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 Aug. 2 Shalimar [Havillah from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Aug. 21 Empress of the Seas [Havillah from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 10 [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Sep. 3 Heather Bell London Hobart 1 Sep. 3 Lightning [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 & Oct. 25 [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Launceston 1 Oct. 9 Empire of Peace [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 10 & Oct. 10 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 6 Oct. 19 Antipodes London Hobart 1 Oct. 21 Great Tasmania [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 & Dec. 19 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 5 Oct. 31 Prince of the Seas [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 & Nov. 8 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Nov. 5 Elizabeth Ann Bright [Royal Shepherd from Liverpool Launceston 1 Melbourne]

106.

Port of Departure Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Immigrants

1861: Nov. 26 Yorkshire [City of Hobart from Melbourne] London Hobart 1 Dec. 12 Commodore Perry [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 7 Dec. 12 Donald McKay [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 13 Dec. 24 Percy London Hobart 1 Dec. 26 Lily [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 1862: Jan. 6 Chariot of Fame [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Jan. 9 Aurora Australis London Hobart 99 Jan. 14 Blue Jacket [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 3 Jan. 20 Hope [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 4 & Jan. 25 [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 3 Jan. 25 Morning Light [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 Feb. 6 Water Nymph [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Feb. 14 Harrowby London Hobart 1 Feb. 26 Lord Raglan [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 10 Mar. 9 Solway [Black Swan from Melbourne] London Launceston 6 Mar. 15 Marco Polo [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 4 Apr. 19 Lady Egidia Glasgow Launceston 236 May 16 Merchant Prince [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 2 May 16 Oceanica [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 3 May 31 James Booth [Tasmania from Melbourne] London Hobart 7 & Jun. 3 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 1 Jun. 3 Vanguard [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 & Jun. 28 [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 10 Jun. 5 Star of Brunswick [ Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Jun. 29 Phoenix [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 Jul. 7 Lightning [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 & Jul. 11 [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 10 Jul. 14 May Flower [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] London Launceston 1

107.

Port of Departure Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Immigrants

1862: Jul. 30 City of Melbourne [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] London Launceston 9 Jul. 30 Mysteries of the Seas [Royal Shepherd from Liverpool Launceston 12 Melbourne] Aug. 9 Netherby [ Tasmania from Melbourne] London Hobart 2 Aug. 19 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 25 Sep. 5 Blanche Moore [Tasmania from Melbourne] London Hobart 2 Sep. 5 [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Launceston 6 Sept. 5 Greyhound [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 15 Sept. 6 Heather Bell London Hobart 2 Oct. 31 Champion of the Seas [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 10 Nov. 5 Wallace [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] London Launceston 10 Nov. 13 Suffolk [Black Swan from Melbourne] London Launceston 3 Nov. 21 Shalimar [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 4 Dec. 31 Red Jacket [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Dec. 31 Henry Fernie [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 1863: Jan. 3 Star of Brunswick [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Jan. 15 Marco Polo [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 & Jan. 16 [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Jan. 15 Blue Jacket [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 & Jan. 16 [Tasmania from Melboume] Hobart 3 Jan. 30 [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 5 Feb. 20 Princess Royal [Black Swan from Melbourne] London Launceston 6 Feb. 26 Morning Light [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 Feb. 28 Royal Family [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Mar. 13 Merrie Monarch [Tasmania from Melbourne] London Hobart 3 Mar. 31 Great Tasmania [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 & Apr. 16 [Havillah from Melbourne] Launceston 4 & Apr. 18 [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 5

108.

Port of Departure Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Immigrants

1863: Apr. 24 Tornado [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Apr. 24 Southern Empire [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 May 21 Arabian [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 & May 22 [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 2 Jun. 13 Golden South [Black Swan from Melbourne] London Launceston 4 Jun. 13 Eastern Empire [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 & Jun. 19 [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Jun. 25 Bates Family [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Jun. 30 Royal Dance [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Jul. 21 Golden Land [Black Swan from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 Aug. 6 Western Ocean [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 & Aug. 7 [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Aug. 6 Donald McKay [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 & Aug. 7 [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 8 Aug. 14 Queen of the South [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Aug. 26 Southern Ocean [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 & Aug. 30 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 3 Sep. 5 Pegasus [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Sep. 6 Lightning [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Sep. 19 White Star [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 4 Oct. 2 Queen Bee [Tasmania from Melbourne] London Hobart 1 & Oct. 5 [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Launceston 5 Oct. 2 Champion of the Sea [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 4 & Oct. 5 [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Launceston 1 Oct. 18 Jessie Munn [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 2 Nov. 12 Vanguard [Havillah from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 15 Nov. 27 Marco Polo [Havillah from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 6

109.

Port of Departure Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Immigrants

1863: Nov. 27 Landsborough [Havillah from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 Dec. 4 Commodore Perry [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 12 & Dec. 11 [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Launceston 1 Dec. 19 Greyhound [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 16 1864: Jan. 12 Tribolgen [City of Launceston from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Jan. 19 Great Australia [Havillah from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 7 & Jan. 23 [Tasmania from Melbourne] Hobart 7 Jan. 23 Shalimar [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 3 Feb. 15 Royal Standard [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Feb. 19 Blanche Moore [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 4 & Feb. 21 [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Launceston 3 Mar. 17 Naval Reserve [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 2 & Mar. 22 [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Launceston 3 May 19 Powerful [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Jun. 11 Empire of Peace [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 2 Jun. 25 Empress of the Seas [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 Jun. 25 Tornado [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 1 Aug. 5 Southern Empire [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Aug. 16 Blue Jacket [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 & Sep. 2 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 2 Aug. 22 Royal Dane [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 Aug. 31 Broadwater London Hobart 12 Sep. 2 Golden Land [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 4

110.

Port of Departure Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Immigrants

1864: Sept. 16 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 2 Sept. 6 Lightning [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 9 & Sept. 16 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 13 Sept. 20 White Star [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 10 Oct. 15 Marco Polo [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 6 Oct. 23 Sam Cearns [Royal Shepherd from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 & Oct. 27 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Nov. 28 Champion of the Seas [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 8 Nov. 30 Annie Wilson [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 & Dec. 9 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Nov. 30 Great Victoria [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 & Dec. 9 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 7 Dec. 30 Avalanche [City of Launceston from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 1865: Jan. 7 [Derwent from Melbourne] Hobart 3 Jan. 16 Red Jacket [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Jan. 16 Golden Empire [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 4 & Jan. 18 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 3 & Jan. 27 [Derwent from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Feb. 25 Royal Standard [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 8 & Mar. 2 [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Launceston 2 Feb. 27 Southern Ocean [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 4 Mar. 22 Vanguard [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Mar. 22 Vernon [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3

111.

No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Port of Arrival Immigrants

1865: May 8 Thunderbolt [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Hobart 1 May 13 Shalimar [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 May 22 Utopia [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 & May 29 [Derwent from Melbourne] Hobart 3 & Jun. 9 [Derwent from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Jun. 4 Napier [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 Jun. 4 City of Melbourne [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 13 & Jun. 9 [Derwent from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Jul. 1 Queen of the North [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Launceston 2 Jul. 16 Empress of the Seas [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Jul. 25 Tornado [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 & Jul. 28 [Derwent from Melbourne] Hobart 3 Jul. 30 Grasmere London Hobart 10 Aug. 11 Lightning [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 4 Sep. 17 Marco Polo [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 Sep. 22 [Derwent from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Sep. 30 Great Britain [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Sep. 30 Wennington [City of Launceston from Melbourne Liverpool Launceston 5 Oct. 20 Morning Light [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Oct. 9 Champion of the Seas [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 6 Oct. 12 [City of Launceston from Melbourne] Launceston 1 Dec. 19 Chariot of Fame [Havillah from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 1866: Jan. 5 Royal Standard [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5

112.

Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Immigrants

1866: Jan. 5 Sam Cearns [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 2 Jan. 17 Southern Empire [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 5 Apr. 9 Western Ocean [Havillah from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 & Apr. 22 [Derwent from Melbourne] Launceston 1 Apr. 21 Great Britain [Havillah from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 Aug. 11 Palm Tree [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 9 Aug. 22 Golden Empire [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 & Aug. 24 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 9 Aug.24 Tornado [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Sep. 21 Lightning [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 4 Sep. 25 Chariot of Fame [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart via 4 Launceston Nov. 18 Champion of the Seas [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 4 Dec. 14 Royal Standard [Black Swan from Melbourne] Launceston 1 Dec. 28 Donald McKay [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 7 1867: Jan. 1 Great Britain [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Jan. 27 Kingston [Black Swan from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 Feb. 13 Morning Light [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Mar. 12 Underly [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Apr. 23 Castlemaine [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 Jun. 15 Suffolk [Derwent from Melbourne] London Hobart 1 Jul. 19 Western Empire [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1

113.

Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Immigrants

1867: Jul. 23 Frederick Warren [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Aug. 2 Chariot of Fame [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Sep.13 Lightning [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 8 Nov. 7 Champion of the Seas [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 8 & Nov. 8 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 2 Nov. 8 Red Jacket [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 4 Dec. 16 Shalimar [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Dec. 22 City of Melbourne [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 6 Dec. 23 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 1 1868: Jan. 22 Light of the Age [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Jan 31. [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 2 Feb. 13 Wennington [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Apr. 3 Salsette [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 12 May 3 Royal Oak [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 4 Jul. 28 Duke of Edinburgh [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 3 Sep. 9 Oriental [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 5 & Sep. 18 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 5 Sep. 12 Lightning [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 & Sep. [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Oct. 8 British Statesman [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 4 Nov. 17 Empress of the Seas [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1

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Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Immigrants

1868: Nov. 21 Donald McKay [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 9 Nov. 22 Antiope [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Dec. 12 Globe [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 Dec. 17 Champion of the Seas [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Dec. 30 Duleep Sing(h) [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 1869: Feb. 5 Nereus [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Apr. 3 Borrodaile [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 2 Jul. 9 Dallam Tower [Southern Cross from Melbourne Liverpool Hobart 10 Jul. 9 Explorer [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 2 Jul. 16 Royal Edward [Rob Roy from Melbourne] London Launceston 4 Aug. 6 Bucton Castle [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 17 Sep. Horton (Houghton Tower) [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Oct. 9 Great Victoria [Tasmania from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Dec. 3 Stockbridge [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 3 Dec. 19 Thomas Stevens [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Dec. 30 Duleep Sing(h) [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 1870: Jan. 21 British Viceroy [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Feb. 25 Baird [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Apr. 23 Tornado [Derwent from Melbourne] London Launceston 9 Apr. 29 Montrose [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 7 May 28 Harlech Castle [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Aug.1 Merrie Monarch [Southern Cross from Melbourne London Hobart 1

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Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Immigrants

1870: Aug. 21 Victoria Hamburg Hobart 176 Sep. 24 Jason [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Sep. 24 Southern Empire [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Oct. 3 Mikado [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 1 Oct. 6 Annesley [Tamar from Melbourne] London Launceston 6 Oct. 6 Juliet [Tamar from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Oct. 22 Somersetshire [Derwent from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Oct. 26 Figaro Hamburg Hobart 130 Nov. 25 Thomas Stevens (Stephen) [Southern Cross from Liverpool Hobart 3 Melbourne] & Nov. 26 [Derwent from Melbourne] Launceston 1 1871: Jan. 21 Kirkham [Derwent from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 &25 Jan Jan. 31 Kumesia [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Feb. 28 City of Agra [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 May 2 River Lune [Tamar from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 & May 11 [Tamar from Melbourne] Launceston 1 Jul. 7 Carnarvonshire [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Aug. 9 Great Victoria [Derwent from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Nov. 30 Eurynome [Tamar from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 1872: Jan. 3 Duke of Edinburgh [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 6 Jan. 30 Francis Thorpe [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Feb. 24 Great Britain [Tamar from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Mar. 23 Eugenie Hamburg Hobart 123 Jun. 29 Southern Belle [Tamar from Melbourne] London Launceston 1

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Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Immigrants

1872: Jul. 28 City of Agra [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 2 Aug. 25 Pentbesilea [Derwent from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Oct. 5 Star Queen [Tamar from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 Oct. 19 Mertnerus [Tamar from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Dec. 23 Cholula [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 1873: Jan. 4 Vernon [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 Apr. 19 Calcutta [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 1 Jun. 20 Carranjab [Passengers from the North Fleet, which was London Hobart 85 wrecked] Sep. 12 Wasdale [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Livepool Hobart 14 Nov. 16 Tbeophane [Tartar from Melbourne] Liverpool Launceston 1 Dec. 24 Sovereign or Sobraon [Tasman from Melbourne] London Hobart 1 Dec. 24 Great Britain [Tasman from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 7 Dec. 26 Patterdale [Tasman from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 4 1874: Feb. 8 Knowsley Hall [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 9 Apr. 2 Oberon [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 May 15 Northumberland [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 1 Jul. 24 Eaton Hall [City of Hobart from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 2 Sep. 25 Altcar [Tasman from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 2 Nov. 9 Fleur de Lis [Tasman from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 2 Nov. 9 Theophane (Tasman from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 1 1875: Mar. 19 Great Britain [Tasman from Melbourne] Liverpool Hobart 2 Mar. 19 Phillipine [Tasman from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Jun. 3 Adelaide London Hobart 1

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Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Immigrants

1875: Jul. 30 Somersetshire [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 1 Sep. 24 Lincolnshire [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 7 Oct. 23 Great Britain [Derwent from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Nov. 22 Northumberland [Derwent from Melbourne] London Launceston 4 1876: Jan. 26 Somersetshire ['Tamar from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 & Feb. 4 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Tamar 2 Mar. 22 Durham [Tamar from Melbourne] London Launceston 7 & Mar. 24 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 21 May 31 Northumberland [Derwent from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 Jun. 13 Essex [Tamar from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Sep. 1 Somersetshire [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 10 Nov. 25 Northumberland [Albion from Melbourne] London Hobart 4 & Nov. 26 [Derwent from Melbourne] Launceston 1 Dec. 20 Kent [Tamar from Melbourne] London Launceston 6 & Dec. 22 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 2 1877: Mar. 5 Somersetshire [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 May 31 Northumberland [Derwent from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 & Jun. 1 [Tamar from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Jul. 13 Kent [Tamar from Melbourne] London Hobart 1 Aug. 25 Somersetshire [Derwent from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Oct. 19 Durham London via Hobart 2 Melbourne 1878: Jan. 5 Kent [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Mar. 7 Somersetshire [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 7

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Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Immigrants

1878: Apr. 16 Durham [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 9 May 28 Northumberland [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 3 & May 31 [Ringarooma from Melbourne] Hobart 5 Jul. 12 Kent [Taranua from Melbourne] London Hobart 8 Aug. 16 Somersetshire [Tamar &Southern Cross from London Hobart 2 Melbourne] & Aug. 18 [Mangana from Melbourne] Launceston 2 Oct. 2 Durham [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 & Oct. 4 [Tararua from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Nov. 15 Northumberland [Ringarooma for Melbourne] London Hobart 9 1879: Jan. 4 Kent [Tamar from Melbourne] London Hobart 9 Feb, 15 Somersetshire [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Feb. 20 [Tararua from Melbourne] Hobart 7 Jul. 7 Kent [Tamar from Melbourne] London Hobart 5 Aug. 16 Somersetshire [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 2 Sept. 24 Durban [Claude Hamilton from Melbourne] London Hobart 16 Oct. 27 Northumberland [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Nov. 5 Lincolnshire [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Dec. 8 Norfolk [.Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 4 & Dec. 10 [Mangana from Melbourne] Launceston 8 Dec. 20 Orient [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 1880: Feb. 4 Respigadora [Tamar from Melbourne] London Hobart 5 Feb. 17 Somersetshire [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 12 Mar. 8 True Briton [Tasman from Melbourne] London Hobart 7 Mar. 24 Durham [Mangana from Melbourne] Plymouth Launceston 1 May 4 Northumberland [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 3

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Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Immigrants

1880: May 6 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 4 May 29 Cotopaxi [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 8 Jun. 16 Lusitania [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Aug. 3 Sir Walter Raleigh [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Aug. 15 Chimborazo [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Sep. 17 Durham [FIinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 Oct. 5 Somersetshire [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 7 Oct. 9 [Flinders from Melbourne] Launceston 1 1881: May 13 Potosi [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 May 19 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Jun. 4 Chimborazo [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 Jul. 2 Cuzco [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 & Jul. 8 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 3 & Jul. 13 [Mangana from Melbourne] Launceston 4 Jul. 13 Cotopaxi [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 4 [Mangana from Melbourne] Launceston 11 Aug. 5 Sir Walter Raleigh [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 2 Aug. 15 Garonne [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 3 Aug. 23 Lusitania [Tamar from Melbourne] London Launceston 4 Aug. 24 [Rotomahana from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Sep. 9 Liguria [Ringarooma from Melbourne] London Hobart 2 Sep. 27 Potosi [Tamar from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Oct. 8 Chimborazo [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 6 & Oct. 12 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 2 Nov. 26 Cuzco [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 6 Dec. 12 Orient [Alhambra from Melbourne] London Hobart 3

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Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Immigrants

1882: Jan. 26 Liguria [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Feb. 20 Potosi [Tasman from Melbourne] London Hobart 13 & Mar. 2 [Tasman from Melbourne] Hobart 1 & Mar. 19 [Mangana from Melbourne] Launceston 3 Mar. 7 Chimborazo [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 & Mar. 10 [Tamar from Melbourne] Hobart 2 Mar. 19 John Elder [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 9 & Mar. 20 [Tamar from Melbourne Hobart 5 Mar. 29 Sorata [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 5 & Mar. 30 [Hero from Melbourne] Hobart 1 & Apr. 1 [Mangana from Melbourne] Launceston 5 Apr. 15 Cuzco [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 Apr. 27 Cotopaxi [Rotomahana from Melbourne] London Hobart 2 May 10 Garonne London via Launceston 1 Melbourne May 10 Orient [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 & May 11 [Ringarooma from Melbourne] Hobart 1 May 25 Lusitania [Ringarooma from Melbourne] London Hobart 4 & May 26 [Mangana from Melbourne] Launceston 5 Jun. 7 Liguria [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 3 & Jun. 8 [Albion from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Jul. 1 Austral [Mangana from Melbourne] Launceston 1 & Jul. 6 [Tamar from Melbourne] Tamar 2 Aug. 2 Chimborazo [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 Aug. 23 Sir Walter Raleigh [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 Aug. 30 Sorata [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 & Sep. 2 [Esk from Melbourne] Hobart 5 Aug. 31 Melbourne [Manapouri from Melbourne] London Hobart 6 Sep. 10 Cuzco [Ringarooma from Melbourne] London Hobart 4 Sep. 23 Cotopaxi [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 5 & Sep. 28 [Rotomahana from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Oct. 14 Liguria [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 7

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Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Immigrants

1882: Nov. 13 Shannon [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 1 Nov. 13 Garonne [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 1 Nov. 23 Potosi [Manapouri from Melbourne] London Hobart 9 & Nov. 26 [Mangana from Melbourne] Launceston 11 Dec. 5 Orient [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 16 & Dec. 11 [Rotomahana from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Dec. 23 Sobraon [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 3 Dec. 23 Chimborazo [Flinders from Melbourne] London 1 1883: Jan. 13 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] 1 Jan. 18 Sorata [Te Anau from Melbourne] London Hobart 5 & Jan. 20 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Launceston 3 Feb. 6 Cuzco [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Launceston 2 Feb. 8 [Mangana from Melbourne] Launceston 3 Feb. 13 Liguria [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Gravesend Launceston 1 & Mar. 1 [Rotamahana from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Feb. 15 [Manapouri from Melbourne] Hobart 1 Mar. 5 Cephalonia [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Hobart 5 & Mar. 9 [Corunna from Melbourne] Launceston 4 & Mar. 12 [Flinders from Melbourne] Launceston 1 Apr. 11 Potosi [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 & Apr. 12 [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hobart 12 Apr. 12 Garonne [Te Anau from Melbourne] Gravesend Hobart 1 Apr. 28 Orient [Flinders from Melbourne] Gravesend Launceston 1 May 9 Lusitania [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 1 May 28 John Elder [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 8 Jun. 6 Chimborazo [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 5 Aug. 1 Iberia [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 61 Aug. 11 Potosi [Southern Cross from Melbourne] London Launceston 38 Aug. 31 Orient [Esk from Melbourne] London Hobart 47

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Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Immigrants

1883: Sep. 20 Kehireider [Southern Cross from Melbourne] Hamburg Hobart 6 Sep. 29 Lusitania [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 6 Oct. 26 Cape Clear Plymouth Hobart 370 Nov. 22 Etna [Corinna from Melbourne] Germany Hobart 5 1884: n.d. Iberia [Sailed 1 November 1883] _ _ 1 Jan. 10 Procida [Wai from Melbourne] Hamburg Hobart 7 Feb. 3 Gulf of Carpentaria London Hobart 406 Jun. 22 Westmeath London Hobart 121 Jul. 23 Gulf of Carpentaria London Hobart 142 Oct. 15 Pathan Plymouth Hobart 151 Dec. 15 Kildare London Hobart 312 1885: Jan. 19 Nurjahan London Hobart 178 Feb. 2 Ibernia London via Hobart 56 Melbourne May 27 Austral [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 19 Jun. 15 Cuzco [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 22 Jun. 27 Liguria [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 50 Jul. 10 Iberia [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 39 Jul. 28 Potosi [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 16 Sep. 17 Procida [Waitarapa from Melbourne] Hamburg Hobart 121 Oct. 1 John Elder [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 12 Oct. 17 Cuzco [Flinders from Melbourne] London Launceston 49 Nov. 3 Liguria [Pateena from Melbourne] London Launceston 6 Dec. Orient London via Launceston 15 Melbourne 1886: Feb. 9 John Elder [Pateena from Melbourne] London Launceston 8 Apr. 7 Iberia [Mangana from Melbourne] London Launceston 23 Aug. 3 Liguria London Hobart 2 Sep. 22 Tainui London Hobart 4 Oct. 22 Doric London Hobart 8 Oct. 28 Duke of Devonshire London Hobart 38 Oct. 31 Gulf of St Vincent London Hobart 1

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Port of Arrival No. of Date of Arrival Ship from Britain and/or Melbourne Port of Departure Immigrants

1886: Nov. 22 Arawa London Hobart 35 Dec. 16 Ionic London Hobart 26 1887: Jan. 14 Elderslie London Hobart 11 Jan. 15 Coptic London Hobart 7 Jan. 28 Port Augusta London Hobart 20 Feb. 10 Taihui London Hobart 14 March 11 Doric London Hobart 15 April 7 A rawa London Hobart 8 May 5 Ionic London Hobart 21 Jun. 3 Coptic London Hobart 17 June 30 Taibui London Hobart 10 Jul. 28 Doric London Hobart 11 Aug. 24 Arawa London Hobart 5 Sept. 23 Ionic London Hobart 26 Oct. 20 Coptic London Hobart 15 Nov. 16 Taihui London Hobart 14 1888: Apr. 6 Taihui London Hobart 1 Jun. 28 Tonic London Hobart 9 Jul. 29 Coptic London Hobart 10 Aug. 23 Taihui London Hobart 1 Sep. 18 Doric London Hobart 2 1889: Jan. 10 Taihui London Hobart 2 Feb. 5 Doric London Hobart 10 Mar. 7 Arawa London Hobart 1

Note: This list is not completely accurate; records differ as to the number of immigrants by each ship,and the classification of ships as immigrant vessels or otherwise.

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APPENDIX 7. ABSTRACT SHOWING THE SHIPS IN WHICH PENSIONERS ARRIVED IN THE COLONY OF TASMANIA AS GUARDS OVER CONVICTS, WITH DATES OF ARRIVAL RESPECTIVELY.

Staff Officer of Pensions Office, Hobart Town, 14 August 1857

Name of Ship Date of Arrival Strength of Guard Remarks in each case the 7 years will expire as under Blenheim & Maria Somes 16 August & 31 July 1850 60 Nile 15 October 1850 30 On 14 October 1857 William Jardin 21 November 1850 30 On 20 November 1857 Rodney (I) 10 December 1850 30 On 9 December 1857 Hyderabad 24 December 1850 30 On 23 December 1857 London 28 March 1851 30 On 27 March 1858 Lady Kennaway 6 June 1851 30 On 5 June 1858 Cornwall 20 June 1851 30 On 19 June 1858 Blenheim 15 November 1851 30 On 14 November 1858 Rodney (2) 31 December 1851 30 On 30 December 1858 Abourkir 30 March 1852 30 On 29 March 1859 Fairlee 12 July 1852 30 On 11 July 1859 Pestongee Bomangee 6 August 1852 30 On 5 August 1859 Lord Dalhousie 21 August 1852 30 On 20 August 1859

Reference: CSD1/144/3994

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APPENDIX 8 RETURN OF IMMIGRANTS UNDER THE YOUTHS FOR FARM WORK SCHEME.

YOUTHS FOR FARM WORK-Introduced into Australia under the joint Commonwealth and State Migration

Year N S W Vic. Qld S.A. W.A. Tas. Total

1922 636 125 68 580 101 - 1 510 1923 854 899 873 605 197 72 3 500 1924 1 033 612 255 275 101 - 2 276 1925 1115 616 617 1 60 - 2 409 1926 1 189 470 732 2 26 - 2 419 1927 935 656 527 50 150 - 2 318 1928 835 488 553 76 170 - 2122 1929 613 268 313 1 121 - 1 316 1930 67 15 157 - - - 239 1931 - - 7 - - - 7 1932 & onwards ------Total 7 277 4 149 4 102 1 590 926 72 18 116

Reference: PD1/552/55/8/36

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APPENDIX 9. MIMIGRANTS UNDER THE `HOUSEHOLD WORKERS' SCHEME'.

HOUSEHOLD WORKERS-Introduced into Australia under the Joint Commonwealth and State Migration Scheme.

Year N.S.W. Vic. Qld. S.A. W.A. Tas. F.C.T. Total 1922 214 274 67 41 135 35 - 766 1923 224 265 101 110 244 69 - 1 013 1924 437 481 113 121 213 54 - 1 419 1925 472 388 77 112 213 6 - 1 268 1926 660 428 218 117 172 8 - 1 603 1927 670 430 213 159 401 - 24 1 897 1928 716 463 160 142 304 - - 1 785 1929 509 268 99 74 293 - - 1 243 1930 138 69 60 7 45 1 - 313 1931 12 4 11 - - 2 - 29 1932

onwards ------Total 4 045 3 070 1 119 883 2 020 175 24 11 336

Reference: PD1/552/55/8/36

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