ABSTRACT
The revision of immigration policy caused Samuel to extend the functions of the Immigration Department and to adjust it to the new scheme of control. As early as November 1921, he set up a new Sub-Department of Labour as a section of the Department of Immigration and Travel. A larger and more complicated extension of the Department's function was anticipated with the proposed appointment of Immigration Officers in the main centres of immigration in Europe. Samuel's first objection to this proposal, originally recommended by Morris, was due to his assumption that the new policy would inevitably reduce immigration and would not justify the existence of this expensive network in Europe. The principle that immigrants and visitors to Palestine should maintain the entire establishment of the Department of Immigration and Travel by paying various fees was a fundamental one and had existed since the very formation of the Department.
