THAT Colonists providing a passage for emigrant Labourers, being young persons, and equal numbers of both sexes, be entitled to a payment in money from the Emigration Fund, equal to the actual contract price of a passage for so many labouring persons.
Article VIII.
THAT Grants be absolute in fee, without any condition whatever, and obtainable by deputy.
Article IX.
THAT any surplus of the proceeds of the tax upon rent and of sales, over what is required for Emigration, be employed in relief of other taxes, and for the general purposes of Colonial Government.
FOUNDATION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Source.—Six Months in the new Colony of South Australia (J. Horton James, 1839), pp. 1, 28-37
The settlement of South Australia was undertaken to test Wakefield's theory; but instead of turning their land to good account the colonists left it idle, hoping to sell at a high price. The result was disastrous.
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