REPORT OF COOLIE COMMISSION, APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE CONDITION OF THE INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE COLONY OF NATAL 1872
REPORT TO HIS EXCELLENCY ANTHONY MUSGRAVE, ESQ., C.M.G., LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF NATAL, &C., &C
We, the Commission appointed by His Excellency Colonel Milles, Administrator of the Government, to consider the Despatch, with its enclosures, received from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated March 4th, 1872, and to report-first, what the number of Indian immigrants are now in Natal, their condition, and the mode in which, as a general rule, they are employed; second, as to the remarks contained in Sir Clinton Murdoch's letter,of the 24th February last, and particularly in the tenth paragraph, and also with special reference to the complaints made by returned immigrants to the Protector at Calcutta -having met on the 10th June, under Colonial Office Letter of Appointment bearing the same date, proceeded to consider the instructions therein issued for our guidance