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SECTION XXII. 



WE further propose, that the Poor Law Commissioners 

 shall be authorized to borrow monies from the Exchequer 

 Bills' Commissioners of the United Kingdom, for the pur- 

 poses of emigration, or for defraying the expenses of any 

 buildings that they may think necessary to have erected 

 in Ireland; and to secure the repayment thereof by a charge 

 upon the national rate. 



REMARKS. 



The Commissioners here propose the only re- 

 medy which in our opinion would tend to lessen, 

 nay even to terminate, the evils under which Ire- 

 land labours, namely, to transport capital into 

 that country ; not, as the Commissioners propose, 

 with a view to favour emigration, but on the con- 

 trary, to impede it, and to give employment to 

 those who would have emigrated. If this capital 

 were employed in reclaiming bog-lands and waste 

 tracts, and cultivating them in farms of two hun- 

 dred acres, Ireland would, in less tban four or 

 five years, furnish subsistence proportioned to its 

 population, and there would no longer be such 

 cases of distress and misery to occupy public at- 

 tention : they would disappear in a natural course 

 of things, or at least a great proportion of them. 



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