Record

Document Reference	Os C 305
Title	Notes on emigration by J.E. Denison; n.d. [1847-48]
Date	1847-1848
Extent	3 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Comments on free passage for emigrants out of land fund; refers to payment of interest and capital from fund; describes system of land sales as 'monstrous'; believes convicts are 'like manure noxious in a heap, invaluable when spread over the surface'; comments that price of land is too high; states that emigration should be encouraged; believes labour and capital balance will regulate themselves in colonies.
Term	colonies, Australia
	colonial affairs, labour
	colonial affairs, convicts
	colonial affairs, land, sale of
	emigration

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA199	Denison; J. Evelyn (1800-1873); 1st Viscount Ossington; M.P. Speaker of House of Commons 1857-72 created Viscount Ossington 1872	1800-1873

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