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11 cuss" and the offer of employment an insult. One of 
the provisions of the Crown Lands Ordinance is that a per- 
son who has been residing undisturbed for twelve months 
on any Crown Land can not be removed but by process in 
one of the higher Courts ; and as no one seeks to disturb 
the settler, this is an invitation to idlers to occupy the 
Crown Lands, and the proviso might with advantage, 
both to the colony and the idler, be erased from the 
Ordinance. Were the land more under the immediate 
supervision and care of the Government, it might be 
profitably occupied as grants, and become a source of 
revenue to the colony ; while the idler, having noTiarbour- 
ing place, would be forced to work for his livelihood. 
