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1831 Aug. 10 Colonization Society
1831 Aug. 10

Colonization Society

Ch.IV Means of Effectuation Inducements to §.2. Settlers without Capital

Observations

Observations

It seems settled, as follows:

1. No Settler in a single state is to be accepted:

2. Nor any person in a state of Childhood:

3. All Settlers shall go in married couples:

4. No couple shall be allowed to take with it any child.

5. Consequently all the couples that are sent out should be either couples who

have lost their children or couples who have not been married long enough to

have any.

6. All this to be understood to have place so long as couples, in sufficient

number, clear of such encumbrance can be obtained.

2. In regard to each couple that has not been married long enough to have had a

child it will be to be considered whether it will be to be accepted if it has

been married for such a length of time that the delivery of the wife during the

voyage is to be expected. In such a situation an occurrence of this sort can not

but be productive of considerable embarrassment.

3. It will also be to be considered whether any couple that has been married for

such or such a length of time without ever having had a child is to be accepted?

4. The sort and quality of labour which will be required at the hands of the

females, will it not require to be particularized?
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    §.2. settlers without capital

    Settlers who in the first instance are not to have possession any one of them of any portion of land, (with the exception perhaps of his own domicile) - but are to view in the wages of their labor - wages to be paid to them by employers of a certain description, (of whom presently) their sole means of subsistence

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    each such couple, as soon as it can obtain any better price for its labour, it

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