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Establish an Emigrants Home, available to all classes of laborers, 

 who on arrival can go to work as farmers, tailors, shoemakers, &c.j 

 and let their children be put to school ; the general management might 

 be left to a limited number of city residents who could see the insti- 

 tution carried out properly. The various sections of the American 

 Institute now forming, might materially aid by its cooperation by 

 holding public meetings, and brining this subject prominently before 

 the country ; such an office here, would be applied to by immigrants 

 on their arrival, and they could be provided with tickets or orders to 

 convey them by nearest routes to the institution, where they can find 

 the work best suited to them within doors or out on the farm. Such 

 an asylum, managed with economy and carried out with the necessary 

 spirit, would form the brightest ornament among the benevolent in- 

 stitutions of the State of New- York. 



Mr. Carter. — This State has large tracts of land, not equal to the 

 richest certainly, but lands now covered with thick forests — lands 

 where industry can make an excellent home. Fifty thousand acres 

 of it have been recently offered for sale at ten cents an acre by the 

 Land Commissioners of our State, at Albany. This land is in Her- 

 kimer county, and one half of it is tillable land. 



Judge Van Wyck remarked that the rich lands belonging to the 

 Union presented greater attractions to the settler, the number of im- 

 migrants is already very great. This subject has drawn the attention 

 of the mayor, who has stated the case in strong and just points of 

 view. 



Chairman. — It would be best to appoint a committee to examine 

 this subject and report to our next meeting. 



Mr. Carter. — I purposed to make that motion and now make it. — 

 a committee of three. 



Judge Van Wyck. — Of five. — carried. 



Chairman, appointed Messrs. Carter, Fleet, Antisell, Van Wyck, 

 and Lewis G, Morris. 



