 | William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1836 - 734 pages
...instance, the purchasers of land provide for any future recurrence of such an evil, as every purchaser pays a certain sum per acre "to a general fund, to be employed in carrying out labourers.'1 A more admirable plan could not have been hit upon ; and few and unpretending as are the... | |
 | Henry Capper - South Australia - 1837 - 130 pages
...down by the Act of Parliament is a certain means for securing a sufficient supply of free labour. 9. This is accomplished by requiring every applicant...acre to a general fund to be employed in carrying out labourers. 3. The EMIGRATION FUND thus raised is placed under the management of the Commissioners;... | |
 | Australia - 1838 - 266 pages
...PRINCIPLES OF COLONIZATION.— The characteristic feature of the plan of colonization laid down by Act of Parliament is a certain means of securing a...to a general fund, to be employed in carrying out labourers. 3. The EMIGRATION FUND thus raised is placed under the management of the Commissioners,... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...wages. The following are the avowed principles on which the colony is established and managed:— "II. This is accomplished by requiring every applicant...acre to a general fund to be employed in carrying out labourers. " I. The characleristic feature of the plan of colonisation laid down by the act of parliament... | |
 | Esq. Samuel Butler - Australia - 1839 - 272 pages
...down by the Act of Parliament is a certain means for securing a sufficient supply of free labour. II. This is accomplished by requiring every applicant...acre to a general fund to be employed in carrying out labourers. III. The Emigration Fund thus raised is placed under the management of the Commissioners... | |
 | Francis Dutton - Agriculture - 1846 - 396 pages
...characteristic feature of the plan of colonization laid down by the Act of Parliament is a certain means for securing a sufficient supply of free labour. 2. This...acre to a general fund to be employed in carrying out labourers. 3. The Emigration Fund thus raised is placed under the management of the Commissioners,... | |
 | Robert Stewart (A.M.) - Australasia - 1853 - 774 pages
...characteristic feature of the plan of colonization, laid down by the act of parliament, is a certain means for securing a sufficient supply of free labour. 2. This...grant, to pay a certain sum per acre to a general i'uud 10 be employed in carrying out labourers. 3. The emigration fund, thus raised, is placed under... | |
 | George William Rusden - Australia - 1883 - 760 pages
...The " sufficient supply of free labour " was to be secured by " requiring every applicant fwr land to pay a certain sum per acre to a general fund to be employed in carrying out labourers." Arguments were added to enforce the fairness of this requirement. Sir Charles James Napier... | |
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The EMIGRATION FUND thus raised is placed under the management of the Commissioners; whose duty it is to regulate the rate of payment, so as to obtain neither too large nor too small a number of labourers; and by the selection of young, healthy persons... 