WAKEFIELD'S SCHEME OF COLONIZATION
+Source.+--A Letter from Sydney. E.G. Wakefield (Gouger, 1829), Appendix
The failure of the first attempt to settle Western Australia gave
rise to much thought upon the theory of colonization. The ideas
most generally accepted were those of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who
summarized his theory as follows:
OUTLINE OF A SYSTEM OF COLONIZATION
It is suggested:
Article I.
THAT a payment in money of---- per acre, be required for all future
grants of land without exception.
Article II.
THAT all land now granted, and to be granted, throughout the colony, be
declared liable to a tax of---- per cent. upon the actual rent.
Article III.
THAT the proceeds of the tax upon rent, and of sales, form an EMIGRATION
FUND, to be employed in the conveyance of British labourers to the
colony free of cost.
Article IV.
THAT those to whom the administration of the Fund shall be entrusted, be
empowered to raise money on that security, as money is raised on the
security of parish and county rates in England.
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