Cover image for Minutes.
Series:
Minutes.
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
31 Dec 1855
End Date:
01 Sep 1886
Creating Agency:
01 Jan 185531 Dec 1886
Related Series:
CB7/24 Nominal Register of Applications for Land30 Sep 186806 Sep 1887
How to Use:
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Series notes:
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 1880s they held fortnightly meetings. The minutes are fairly comprehensive and provide a detailed description of the Board.

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 1850s and early 1860s 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 1860s 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 1870s and 1880s 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.

These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
Chronological and not indexed.
Items: