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powers, to facilitate the emigration of Indian 

 coolies. The Hon'ble Mr. Eden says that return 

 coolies bring back large sums of money- some- 

 times as much as Rs. 5,000 ; and Dr. Mitchell of 

 Trinidad in his letter to Mr. Chamevorzow, states 

 ' that since the year 1850, 1705 male adults, with 

 their families, have returned to India from Trinidad 

 who transmitted earnings through the Colonial trea- 

 sury amounting to 34,855.' Both statements no 

 doubt are quite true. But, without at all denying 

 that those coolies who do return to India, come 

 back in better circumstances than they went, the 

 amount stated by Dr. Mitchell only shows an 

 average of 20 per family saved in nine years 

 of exile, and such instances as that cited by 

 Mr. Eden, are certainly isolated, and furnish no 

 argument whatever againat the principle I uphold, 

 or prove that the same persons would not have 

 made quite as much money in their own coun- 

 try. The late Moti Lai Seal commenced life 

 in Calcutta by selling empty bottles, and died 

 worth a quarter of a million sterling. A door- 

 keeper I dismissed a short time ago, had lent 

 Ks. 500 of his savings to the other servants. I 

 offered a return laborer from Assam last week, 3 

 a month, wages, to take service on a tea plantation in 

 the Hills, and he refused it. I have no doubt 

 whatever, that on plantations in Assam where a 

 fair system of task work is in force, the laborers 



