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Copies of Correspondence received from the Midland Agricultural Association relating to Transportation.
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Open
Start Date:
01 Jan 1846
End Date:
31 Dec 1847
Creating Agency:
01 Jan 1825
Series notes:
In August, 1845 Lieutenant-Governor Eardley-Wilmot forwarded to the Secretary of State a petition signed by 1750 colonists protesting against the increase in the numbers of convicts arriving in the island, against the imposition of taxation for the support of these convicts, and calling for the immediate cessation of transportation; Eardley-Wilmot accompanied the petition with some remarks of his own, in which he characterised it as being exaggerated and erroneous and pointed out that many colonists of substance had not signed it. As a result of these remarks the Mid-land Agricultural Association decided that it should no longer consider Eardley-Wilmot as its patron, and this volume contains copies of some of the correspondence which took place as a result of this difference.

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