Emigration. Returns showing the names of the colonial land and emigration commissioners; the instructions originally given for their guidance, and the functions actually discharged by the commissioners; the prices of land in the United States and in the several colonies; the number of acres sold or otherwise disposed of in each of the agricultural colonies and in the United States, according to public official returns, in each of the latest three years for which there are returns or records at the Colonial Office, together with the price or rent obtained or promised, and the objects to which the monies are applied; &c [electronic resource].