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extracted from
1859 Colonization Circulars No. 19, pp. 10-11
Effects of Passengers
dying on the Voyage ca. 1859
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The goods and effects of emigrants dying on the voyage, are, on
arrival of the vessel, collected by the agent for immigration, after
which they are disposed of by public auction, and the proceeds transmitted
home for distribution to their legal representatives. |
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| Victoria |
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The goods and effects of passengers who may die on their voyage
to Victoria are, in default of any legitimate claim thereto, made
within 7 days, to be handed over by the master (under a penalty,
not exceeding £100), within fourteen days after arrival, to
the Immigration officer, and by the latter to the persons entitled,
under any will of the deceased, or, in case of intestacy, to the
Curator of Intestate estates in the Colony.— 18 Vict. No.5.
1854, sect. 16 |
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| South Australia |
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The effects of Government Emigrants dying on the voyage to South
Australia, and having no near relatives in the colony, are publicly
sold by the Government Auctioneer ; and the proceeds, together with
any money belonging to the deceased, are remitted to the Emigration
Commissioners in England, for the benefit of the next of kin.
The Curator of intestate estates administers to the estates and effects
of persons dying in the colony without having made a will. Full particulars
are published half yearly in the province, and are transmitted annually
to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. |
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| Western Australia |
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By Colonial Ordinance, the Civil Court is empowered to grant Letters
of Administration to its registrar, to administer to the effects
of parties dying intestate, and without any person in the colony
having interest in them : but the Registrar in himself has no power
to claim effects of passengers dying on the voyage out. |
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| New Zealand |
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No regulations are in force respecting the disposal of the goods
and effects of persons dying on the voyage to this colony. |
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| Canada (ie. Quebec) |
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The effects of passengers dying on their voyage to Canada, unaccompanied
by relatives or other persons entitled to take charge thereof, are
to be accounted for and paid over, under a penalty not exceeding £250
currency, by the master to the Collector of Customs at the port of
arrival, who is to grant a receipt to the master, containing a full
description of the nature or amount of the property. |
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Effects left by Emigrants who died at Grosse Isle without relatives,
1847 |
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| New Brunswick |
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The master of any vessel from Europe, previous to entry, must deliver
to the proper officer, on oath, a list of the passengers that have
died on the voyage, and an account of the property of such passengers,
and deliver over the same for safe keeping, under the penalty of £50
for each offence. The proper officer is authorized to demand and
receive the property of deceased emigrants, keeping a separate account
thereof, and publishing it in the Royal Gazette.
The orphan or deserted children of emigrants may be bound out to
any fit person ; males until the age of twenty-one years and females
until the age of eighteen years. The overseers of the poor are the
guardians of such children, and are authorized to enforce the terms
of the indentures, to protect them against neglect and cruelty, and
to redress their wrongs. |
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| Jamaica |
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It is provided by the thirty-eighth section of the Act 22 Vict.
cap. 1, that it shall be the duty of the Immigration agent to collect
and take possession of the property of any Immigrant who shall die
in this island, and, with the sanction of the governor, to deliver
all such property to any person in the island who shall establish
a right to the same, or, in the absence of any such person, to turn
the said property into money, and pay the proceeds into the island
treasury, in order that the same may be remitted to the person or
persons, in India or elsewhere, who shall be entitled thereto. |
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