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[69]. Executive (House) Doc., 29th Cong., 2d Ses., 54.
[70]. Senate Doc., 29th Cong., 2d Ses., 161.
[71]. As late as 1884–1885 thousands of immigrants were sent from Ireland to the United States and Canada, partly at state expense and partly at the expense of the “Tuke Fund.” Some of these were admittedly paupers. Cf. Tuke, J. H., “State Aid to Emigrants,” Nineteenth Century, 17:280.
[72]. Knickerbocker, 7:78.
[73]. It is said that the natives suspected a deliberate plan on the part of the Catholic powers to destroy the free institutions of America. McMaster, Forum, 17:524.
[74]. Hall, P. F., op. cit., p. 207.
[75]. Franklin, F. G., op. cit., p. 247.
[76]. Report of the Immigration Commission, Federal Immigration Legislation, Abstract, pp. 7, 8.
[77]. Roscher-Jannasch, Kolonien, Kolonialpolitik, und Auswanderung, p. 380.