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gradual extinction of slavery. The following is an abstract of its 

 principal clauses : * 



I. A new registration of all slaves under sixty years of age (about one million), 



with age, occupation, etc. 



II. Fixed maximum valuations for the several classes, grouped according to 



age $1000 being allowed for slaves fifteen to twenty years of age (there 

 are no slaves under fourteen years), and $200 for sexagenarians ; the other 

 values being the same as in Senhor Dantas's bill ; the value of females 

 to be 25 per cent. less. Slaves to cease being worked after sixty-five 

 years of age. Freed men over sixty to be supported by their masters. 



III. Emancipation of slaves by the Fund and by their own savings. 



IV. Formation of the Emancipation Fund : (a) by existing means ; (t>) by an 

 increase of five per cent, on all general taxes and duties, except export ; 

 (c) by annual emission of Government bonds of $6,000,000, at five per 

 cent. 



V.-VII. The application and distribution of the Emancipation Fund. 



VIII. The localization of slaves. 



IX., X. Domicile and labour of 'freed men. 



XIII. Emancipations by will declared absolutely valid. 



In the Times of June 1 9 appeared a letter from the Chevalier 

 A. de Souza Correa, Secretary of the Brazilian Legation, on the 

 Saraiva bill, which was commented upon in a most deplorable, 

 unjust, and revolutionary leading article. It was written in the 

 same strain as the previous leader of September 8, regarding the 

 subject through the prejudice-darkened spectacles of the British 

 and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, whose secretary, Mr. Charles 

 H. Allen, had, on June 4 and 5, written a few panic-stricken lines, 

 which appeared in the Times. The Chevalier de Souza Correa, 

 after giving an epitome of the bill, and referring to the Emanci- 

 pation Funds in particular, concludes 



" In that way, and aided by numerous private manumissions, granted gra- 

 tuitously, Senhor Saraiva expects to hasten emancipation in Brazil, so that 

 in 1892 there would be no more slaves in our country ; and, in the mean- 

 time, the great industrial revolution shall have taken place with as little 

 friction as possible. 



The Gazeta de Noticias states that the number of slaves 

 in Brazil at the beginning of the year (1885) is estimated at 



* Condensed from translation of the text of the bill. South American 

 Journal, July n, 1885. 



