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can be prevented from absconding

ifter

uages

the

reecipt of

the abranes

that are always given as a part the inducement to emigrate. The ordinaw lay days of a ship chartered

of

for the voyage time, un the Ship a suitable place

cannot be sufficient

for

these

preliminar arrangements:

and the fret that such a depôt

has been found necesary both at Muaces, where crnigration is in rrivate hands, and in Calcutta, where

the

it is under the expervision of

vemment, seems to strengthen the supposition that it would also be a prequisite here.

5.

Such an establishment would also seem necessary to realize -102

1

White's

anticipations of suceen with regard to inducing manied men

and families to emigrate. Urequestinals it is runt desirable that in cuigration

Kind the proportion of every kind the

proportion of Male and finale emigrants be as nearly

CLJ

possible equal. When this is the ease the recurral of labners from a Country where the barely sufficient for

erages of labor their scanty

arc

subsistence to another country where

labour is in great demand and the climate at the same time suitable umet be a source of suntual benefit and a work of high philanthropy - To

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