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generally be found settled in larger numbers in 1 
, -cocoa estates than elsewhere. As a matter o ac , 
with a sugar estate we are not able to count muc. 1 U P 
labour, as the greater part of them find , 
-estates; and those that remain. for employment ^y the su 
planters, with few exceptions are those for whom it might be 
well to have a Vagrancy Act established. To e su Q £ 
the tenant farming the cultivation and m 
sugar must be kept separate, and distinct. 
With regard to the bounties, it ought to be borne in mmd 
that the Continental Governments of to-day b^e /iot only to 
keep these bounties going merely as a measure fj^onof 
urgency, but also as a political measure. P o t ’ oa J re f 
the Continental Governments in keeping up > ense 
thev are able to employ an immense 
through tbeir Agency y ^ ^ g . ve them their votes at 
number of lab °™ el . f * the beet SU gar factories were to be shut, 
the elections, . ^ who are nearly all voters under 
the people e “P J , suffrage, would join the opposition and 
the regime 0 ic gi( j thereby endangering the safety of 
vote on the s t he best sugar factories were 
the. community ™ f“8®- wou ld probably be compelled 
■closed the various o\ labour occasioned thereby, under 
to give relief to the unemp } - ‘ opening up Government 
the form of huge workhouses or by open 0 P 
works, such as railways etc., etc. 
i +l,nt the Government bounty givers 
Itisontbis account tha tliey have a desire to be 
find it so hard to abolish w ia. relatively exists here, created 
rid of. The same state ot attain plante rs in the shape of 
by the Government giving aid to are nQW s0 desirous to 
imported Indian labour, but which tney 
bring to a close. ^ Government reduce 
It is to be feared that it ^ J w gl . adu aUy doing, they 
Planters to extremities as they sojne way the whole of the 
will have some day to sa PP ( ’ fc ex i 8 ting here. 
imported Indian labour at presen „ follo . 
By wetting rid of the existing b ° u “ he sUgar market, but it 
that we “shall see an immediah 3 in the acreage _ under 
»„ possibly bring .*»* of labor. U» b~ 1*- 
sugar, cultivation, throug day by day. 
coming more and more sc Indian labourers 
AsarattaroffeotiS I‘^”“'h.r.fromP.-««- S I“^ 
indentured or otherwise, n > >■ o sn g a r cultivation, 
to San Fernando could continue si 0 
