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Vacant Lands. 
The Government declared, first of all, that an absolute sub¬ 
mission to the laws of the country was the principal condition. 
Liberal and republican, these laws offer [serious] guarantees to 
all. They satisfy, as well in regard to civil as to political order, 
ail the legitimate wants of an advanced society. By making 
known their dispositions, an answer was given to many of the 
questions proposed. Meanwhile all the points of detail were 
not examined, though light was thrown upon them. Our inte¬ 
rior state is little known abroad; we judged it necessary to 
dissipate all doubts which might exist in the minds of foreigners. 
Thus, the Government said that it possessed, in all parts of the 
country, demesne lands in large tracts; that, among them, there 
were many of excellent quality; and that the laws authorized 
us to sell them; 
That the price of them was moderate; 
That, at different points, the extent was such that groups of 
a hundred to two hundred families would be able to establish 
themselves thereon; 
That to each of these groups freehold sites would be granted 
for the establishment of schools and chapels, whatever might be 
the religious belief of the members of the settlements. 
That, on their declaration of their intention to become Hay- 
tians, and renounce every other nationality, the emigrants would 
have the right of purchasing lands; 
That, to honest laborers, vigorous but poor, who might not be 
in a position to purchase, it would give all desirable facilities for 
obtaining remunerative work, — either as farmers, as interested 
on shares, [that is, paying one half the crop as rent for the 
farm, houses, and manufactories,] or as day-laborers. By the 
profits arising from such work they would be enabled, in a short 
time, if they were men of economy, and well-behaved, to be¬ 
come prosperous; 
That, further, the public treasury would pay the passage of 
this class of persons, at the rate of fifteen piastres (American 
dollars) for each adult man and woman, and of eight piastres 
