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would be to annex it to the poor-law machinery 

 of the mother country. This would avoid any 

 additional expense of management at home ; 

 while it would afford rate-payers the means of 

 insisting upon colonial bills for their rates, 

 where they had the slightest reason to suspect 

 that these were to be paid in supporting parties 

 able to emigrate or work at home, 



A great many farmers' sons as well as those 

 of merchants, master-mechanics, and manufac- 

 turers, &c. would not be able to purchase pro- 

 perty or colonial bills before leaving home, and 

 hence would have to enter the service of the 

 company. These would become managers in 

 the different branches of colonial industry. 



The age which ought to emigrate is youth. 

 Young people ought to serve an apprenticeship 

 in our colonies, not only for the interest of 

 their parents at home, but also on their own 

 account. This is more particularly the case 

 with towns- people. Were such to emigrate at 

 the age of from fourteen to sixteen years, they 

 could be trained up to any branch of industry 

 which they might choose. A youth entering as an 

 apprentice at the age of fifteen would, were he 

 industrious and well disposed, by the time he 

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