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people to the place of location, and to support them for a reasonable time afterwards, it would certainly be unjust to inundate the colonies with a pauper popu- lation. In the report of the emigration committee, this subject, as well as most others connected with the question before them, has been fully considered?“

Should emigration be conducted at the public ex- pense, it is recommended to provide the emigrant With a fin or eighteen months’ provisions, axes, and a few other implements. From my own enquiries, and all that I have observed respecting the settlers in each of our American colonies, I am of opinion, that if each family received an axe, two hoes, an auger, a saw, a plane, a cow, seed, and provisions for one year, it is fully as much as government should grant. It is doubtful, if more assistance were given, but that it would lead to abuse ; and with such aid, the manwho does not become independent of others far—the‘means of subsistence, deserves (according to an observation made to me by an aflluent and worthy 01d farmer, who settled forty years ago in America not worth a shilling) “to be hanged as a public defaulter.” That emigrants sent to the colonies, and located and provided for at the expense of the public, should be bound, after a reasonable period, to repay . the money advanced on their account, is probably no more than mere justice; and, as such, should be

it See Colonel Cockburn’s Report and Appendix, printed by order of the House of Commons, 1828.