h the like object of absorbing labour, and increasing our food
supplies, a systematic plan should be adopted for the reclamation of
waste lands throughout the country.

That, in any such system, an option should be given to the proprietors
of waste lands to undertake the reclamation themselves; and, in order to
enable them to do so, means should be placed at their disposal for
obtaining public loans for that purpose--the security of such loans to
be confined to the land improved--and (subject to due protection of
reversionary interest), every possible facility should be afforded them
in alienating their waste lands for the purpose of reclamation.

That, with the further view of absorbing labour, our representatives be
entrusted to lay claim to such expenditure upon works and objects of a
national character--such as naval dockyards, safety harbours, and packet
stations--as ought of right to be allotted to this country.

That, in addition to these measures, a scheme of systematic colonization
would, in our opinion, provide the means of subsistence to a large
portion of our destitute population--would relieve many districts in
this country, which are unable to support their inhabitants--would
benefit the Colonies by supplying them with labour--would increase the
supply of food throughout the world, by bringing fresh land into
cultivation--and would largely extend the market for home manufacture.

That the class which it is desirable to see emigrating cannot do so by
their own resources; and that no one of the other classes benefited by
the operation would, separately taken, find it so profitable as to
ensure their carrying it out upon a large scale.

That it is, therefore, peculiarly the province of the State, which
represents and protects the interests of all collectively, to promote
emigration by direct intervention, as well as by assisting, with
information and pecuniary aid, the efforts of individuals and public
bodies in promoting this most desirable result.

15. That, for affording facilities for private employment, we recommend
that the Drainage Acts should be simplified and consolidated; that
tenants for life, and other proprietors having a limited estate, should
be enabled to obtain public loans (to be a charge exclusively on the
land improved), for other permanent improvements of land, besides
drainage, without any application to the Court of Chancery, provided
such permanent improvements shall increase the