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being already in operation . For the encouragement of capitalists who may wish to settle in the colony , improved methods of dividing and disposing of lands are devised ; and in order to supply them with labourers , and to relieve in the most efficacious manner the over-peopled districts of the mother country , various measures are proposed . A tax is recommended to be laid on convict labour of
every kind , which will be productive of a large annual sum , available for emigration purposes : to which purposes will also be applied a fund to be raised from the purchase of lands . The labourers thus assisted over , are to be furnished by government with the knowledge requisite in the formation of their contracts ; and to repay the expenses of their removal in stated proportions ; and the purchasers of lands are to obtain an abatement in the purchase ,
or redemption of quit-rents , to the amount of the expense they have incurred in bringing over labourers . But perhaps the most important measure yet adopted , is the shipment of young women to the colony . They are in great request as household servants , and , if possible , more still as dairy-women , and managers of those parts of farm business usually superintended by women . As for other matters of more important concern , —as the population of Van Diemen ' s Land consists of 10 , 790 men and only 3560
women * it is evidentlv desirable that more such shipments should women , it is evidently desirable that more such shipments should be made as that which has lately taken place . Twelve hundred young women , of ascertained respectability of character and useful qualifications have been lately embarked under guardianship which can scarcely fail of securing the prosperous issue of the arrangement . The applicants or their friends pay half the
expense , viz ., eight pounds , and the government the remainder : and applicants who are capable of paying more are ( always supposing them respectable ) entitled to a preference . The applications to government are so numerous that nothing seems likely to prevent the repetition of the measure till the population of the colony shall be equalized .
If a permanent fund can be established out of the resources of each country to which emigration is desirable , to enable emigration to be carried into effect , there will arise a state of things midway between the extreme wretchedness now existing in this country , and the prosperous condition in which it might be if the people were universally informed respecting the causes and remedies of their distress . While the schoolmaster is giving his
lessons , and until his pupils can put in practice what they have learned , let their misery be alleviated by means which are not the less fit for our purpose because they will in time be superseded . Van Diemen's Land may be full of people a thousand years hence ; but it is nearly empty now , and thither let us therefore send the brimmingsof our population . Those who are left behind will still have enough of want and misery before their eyes to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/16/
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