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of comfortable homes in our colonies as their 

 patrimonial inheritance. By this scheme the 

 domestic happiness of our emigrants would be 

 in a measure secured before leaving the parent 

 country, all those hardships and calamities 

 which are at present experienced by settlers on 

 their first landing avoided, and their ultimate 

 success rendered undoubted. 



It will be observed, that it is unnecessary to 

 carry out the details of the scheme to the same 

 length in effecting the payment of our national 

 debt, as stated above, in the purchasing of 

 annuities, and handing eventually the property 

 created to the landlord undiminished in value. 

 We have only to create property to the value 

 of the national debt in the shape of agricultural 

 improvements, manufactories, roads, railways, 

 &c. &c. This property will enhance the value 

 of our colonial territories more than double that 

 of itself to that class of our people more 

 especially who stand the most in need of it. 

 At present improvements sometimes increase 

 the value of colonial lands twenty-fold, while 

 the character of those improvements are out of 

 date and totally unfit for the age we live in. 

 This enhanced value could be easily transferred 



