[42] See sections 249-256, Vagrancy Report.
[43] See sections 171, 172, Vagrancy Report.
[44] "In view of the subsequent history of the law as to casual paupers, it is matter for regret that Parliament should have thus abandoned the older tradition by which county authorities were charged with a responsibility for vagrants nearly akin to the responsibility falling on parochial authorities in respect of ordinary paupers" (Vagrancy Report, section 260).
[45] The way-ticket system appears likely to pass into legislation (see sections 173-182, Vagrancy Report).
[46] The Gloucestershire way-ticket system is described in sections 160, 161, 176, Vagrancy Report.
[47] See section 164, Vagrancy Report.
[48] It will be seen that these recommendations are in substance adopted by the Committee, Appendix II.
[49] This is also practically adopted in Report (see sections 221, 222, 224).
[50] "The short period during which, on an average, a colonist stays at Hadleigh, and the absence of any power of detention, militate against the possibility of financial success" (Vagrancy Report, section 267).
[51] Only 158 remained in Hadleigh Colony more than six months of 523 persons received during the two years ending September, 1904. Sixty "satisfactory" cases were readmitted later (Vagrancy Report, sections 263, 264).