Guardians to child immigrants Act (1842), courtesy of State Law Publisher of Western Australia.
This digital copy of a statute held by the State Law Publisher in Western Australia was passed to regulate the treatment of young people under the age of 21 coming as unaccompanied migrants to be apprenticed in the Colony. A guardian would be appointed for all such people, and that guardian was expected to exercise control over 'the moral, religious and technical instruction, the health, comfort, and general treatment of all such immigrants…during their apprenticeship' (s.7). A schedule to the Act included a Form of a Deed of Apprenticeship.
SLPWA: 1842 (6 Vict. No.8)
Last updated: 7 August 2023
Cite this: https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/wa/objects/WD0000149.htm
First published by the Find & Connect Web Resource Project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2011
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