Record

Document ReferenceOs C 305
TitleNotes on emigration by J.E. Denison; n.d. [1847-48]
Date1847-1848
Extent3 ff
LevelItem/file
Content DescriptionComments 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.
Termcolonies, Australia
colonial affairs, labour
colonial affairs, convicts
colonial affairs, land, sale of
emigration

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Persons
CodePersonNameDates of existence
NA199Denison; J. Evelyn (1800-1873); 1st Viscount Ossington; M.P. Speaker of House of Commons 1857-72 created Viscount Ossington 18721800-1873
Places
CodeSet
PL225/South Africa
PL10130/Cape Colony
PL143/Australia
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