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 BRITISH- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, 
 F.MIGRATIOir AND COLONIZATION. 
 
 At a Metting of the Consulting Council, 
 held at the House of the Association, 
 29, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, 
 London, 8th June, 1842. 
 
 The President, His Grace the Duke of Argyll, 
 in the Chair. 
 
 The Minutes of the last Meeting of Council„heId on the 
 29th of April, the Most Noble the Marquess of Down- 
 shire in the Chair, were read and confirmed. 
 
 The Minutes of the Meetings held in Edinburgh and 
 Glasgow on the 24th and 27th ult., having the Sign^Hures 
 of the Lord Provosts of these Cities, were laid on the table. 
 
 The following Report from the Board of Commissioners 
 was then read : — 
 
 The Commissioners report— That in accordance vvitli the Reso- 
 lution of the last Meeting of the Consulting Council, a Deputation 
 proceeded to Edinburgh, on the 17th ultimo; when the objects of 
 the Association having been explained to the Right Honourable Sir 
 James Forrest, Bart., the Lord Provost of the City, his lordship 
 consented to convene a public Meeting in furtherance of them, and 
 

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 s^^ftRE'^'^V'lo preside thereat; and the Deputation having hud the honour of 
 '' being introduced to the Most Noble the Marquess of Bute, Hot 
 Majesty's Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of 
 the Church of Scotland, His Grace was pleased to state the grtat 
 interest which he felt in the Association, and to intimate his desiie 
 to have his name added to the list of Vice-PresidenU, 
 
 That a Meeting was held at the Royal Hotel, Edinbufghj on the 
 24th ultimo; at which, the Lord Provost, upon taking the Chair^ 
 stated that it had been convened in consequence of a Resolution to 
 that effect passed at a Meeting of the Consulting Council of the 
 Association ; and he expressed his hearty concurrence in the objects 
 for which the Institution had been formed, considering the great and 
 urgent distress which prevailed in Scotland from a redundant and 
 unemployed population. These views were reiterated by the Hon. 
 Sir W. M. Napier, Bart., the Convener of the County of Renfrew; 
 whereupon it was moved by Dr. Alison, seconded by Sir William 
 Drysdale, and unanimously resolved— That tlie state of destitution 
 in Scotland, which has been grac Uy increasing from the Peace, 
 has reached an extent which demands the immediate attention of 
 the Government, and of all other persons in Scotland interested in 
 the moral and social welfare of the industrious classes. 
 
 2nd. It was moved by Dr. Thomas Rolph, Government Agent 
 for Emigration for Canada, and seconded by Sir Allan Napier Mac- 
 nab, Speaker of the late Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, 
 and unanimously resolved-^That Her Majesty's possessions in 
 British-America present an inexhaustible outlet for the redundant 
 population of the United Kingdom, whilst it is matter of national 
 importance that their great resources should be made available. 
 
 3rd. It was moved by R. Broun, Master of Colstoun, seconded 
 by the Hon. Sir John Campbell, Bart., and unanimously resolved 
 —That the British-American Association for Emigration and Colo- 
 nization is entitled to public confidence and suppoit, as an Institu- 
 tion calculated materially to advance the opulence, prosperity, and 
 peace of the Mother Country and the Colony. 
 
It Mi moved hf «l»V«ryllet"* Principal Mac Farlane, se- 
 
 «end«d by the Rev* Dr. Aiton, and unanimously resolved— That 
 Cofttributions to the Benevolent Fund of the Association shall be 
 ioUcited, for Ihe purpose of aiding in the erection of Churches, 
 Schools, and such other charitable foundations as concern the reli- 
 .4ou9 and rnoral welfare of our British-American fellow subjects. 
 
 IHh. It was mevecl by Isaac Buchanan, Esq., Member of the 
 Legislative Assembly of Canad-i, seconded by the Hon. Sir W. 
 Dvnb*r, Bart., of Mochrum, and unanimously resolved— That the 
 Right Honourable the Lord Provost shall be requested to allow his 
 name to be added to the Consulting Council of the Association, and 
 accept the thanks of the Meeting for presiding upon the occasion. 
 
 Whereupon the Lord Provost, on leaving the Chair, conveyed 
 the thanks of the Meeting to the Deputation, and expressed his 
 entire acquiescence in the wish that he should become one of the 
 Consulting Council of so important an Association. 
 
 And tlie Commissioners further report— That the Deputation 
 having proceeded to Glasgow, where it was joined by the other 
 Member, Mr. Andrews, it was introduced to the Right Honour- 
 able Sir James Campbell, the Lord Provost of that City, and other 
 influential persons connected with its trade and manufactures, when 
 the Lord Provost at once acceded to the wish conveyed to him, 
 that he should convene and preside at a public Meeting to take the 
 objects of the Association into consideration ; and a Meeting was 
 accordingly convened to be holden at the Town Hall of the City, 
 oil the 27th ultimo,— which was numerously attended. 
 
 That the Lord Provost, on taking the Chair, stated the object of 
 the Meeting, and expressed himself strongly in favour of a syste- 
 matic plan of Emigration to British North America, as an effectual 
 means of relieving the distress of the Labouring Classes in the 
 West of Scotland ; after which the following Resolutions were suc- 
 f:essively moved, discussed, put to the Meeting, and carried with- 
 out a dissentieiil voice : — • 
 
1st. Moved by Mr. Slierifl' Alison, and secoiuled bjrtbelUv. 
 Dr. Norman Macleod— That the destitution of Glasgow, the man*, 
 facturing districts of the West of Scotland, and the Highlands gene* 
 rally, has reached an appalling character and extent, and cannot, ia 
 the opinion of the Meeting, be effectually remedied by any measu3?«s 
 short of Emigration on a national scale. 
 
 2nd. Moved by Sir Allan Napier Macnab, and seconded hf 
 Dr. Rolph — That the resources of our British-American provinces,, 
 if drawn out by an extensive infusion into them of capital and 
 population, will aflbrd an immediate and effectual remedy for the 
 distress prevalent in the United Kingdom from redundant labour. 
 
 3rd. Moved by W. Andrews, Esq., and seconded by the Hon. Sii 
 John Cunninghame Tairlie, Bart., — That the British-American 
 Association, which has been formed for tliese combined objects, is 
 etititled to the support of all persons in the Kingdom desirous of 
 advancing the moral and general welfare of the Labouring Classes, 
 
 4th. Moved by R. Broun, Master of Colstoun, and seconded by 
 W. Murray, Esq. — That the Rev. Dr. Norman Macleod, whose 
 great exertions in the cause of his suffering fellow-countrymen in 
 the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland, in the year 1837, 
 was so instrumental in raising a sum of upwards of £100,000. 
 sterling to rescue them from starvation, and Mr. Sheriff Alison, 
 whose warmest exertions have long been conspicuously directed 
 to tlie relief of distress in Great Britain, and the advancement 
 of her Colonial interests, be requested to allow their names to be 
 added to the Consulting Council of the Association. 
 
 5lh. Moved by the Hon. Sir W. A. Maxwell, Bart., and seconded 
 by William Hovston, Esq., of Johnstone Castle — That the Lord 
 Provost be requested to allow his name to be added to the Con- 
 sulting Council, and to accept the best thanks of the Meeting for 
 presiding thereat. 
 
 Whercui)on Dr. Macleod, Mr. Sheriff Alison, and the Lord 
 
Provost, severally stated their willingness to act on the Consulting 
 Council, and to give the Association every aid in cairying out Us 
 objects. 
 
 And t'ne Commissioners further report, that on the evening of the 
 same day Dr. Rolph and Mr. Andrews, two of the Deputation, 
 attended a Meeting at the town of Paisley, convened to take mto 
 consideration the state of the industrial classes, which, in conse- 
 quence of the great number congregated, was adjourned from the 
 Council Chamber to the Town Hall; that the Provost presided at 
 the Meeting, supported by many of the leading Clergymen and 
 Manufacturers of the district; and after the objects and plans of 
 the Association had been fully discussed and considered, a variety 
 of Resolutions, approving of them, ..d pledging ^^^ P^ons p^^^^^^ 
 sent to support the undertaking, were proposed and unanimously 
 adopted. 
 
 And the Commissioners further report, that they have formed 
 Commiuees, and appou ted Agents, in aid of the Association in the 
 City of Glasgow, and at Pai.ley: that they shall immediatdy 
 proceed to the appointment of a Committer, and an Agent, m the 
 City of Edinburgh, and in theotlier principal Towns of Scotland, 
 from which they intend to emanate parochial Associations in the 
 re'pecti^e districts, to secure the co-operation of the working clergy 
 in aid of the Institution. 
 
 'And the Commissioners report, that they f« ™^^^';\^'^"^'" 
 ments, in concert with a Member of the Board, Dr. Rolph, in his 
 character of Agent for Emigration to Canada to ^^te^d th^pera- 
 tions of the Association throughout England and Ireland, from 
 which they anticipate the most beneficial results to the Association, 
 and to the industrial classes of the community. 
 
 The Commissioners now necessarily direct the attention of the 
 Meeting to the state of the Association, and to the means adopted 
 to advance its interests and its influence, with a just regard to the 
 
beneficial employment of its capital, the application of its resO* 
 and the direct promotion of the important objects for which it w«» 
 formed-the furtherance of Emigration-the proper colonization «f 
 the lands it shall from time to time acquire— and the advancement 
 of the social condition of the industrial classes. 
 
 The whole of the arrangements which necessarily precede tbe 
 announcement of a great public undertaking have been matured, 
 and some important arrangements have been made in East Canada, 
 and also in Prince Edward's Island, to acquire tracts of country 
 for immediate location and settlement ; the Commissioners having, 
 in their negotiations, had especial reference to the interests of the 
 Emigrants to be intrusted to their care, and £o the economical 
 application of the capital of the undertaking. 
 
 The attention of the Commissioners was directed, in the fitrt 
 instance, to Eastern Canada, where they have negotiated for th# 
 acquirement of four Seignories and other adjoining properties, con- 
 taining about 200,000 acres of land ^ and they have th^ gratification 
 to report, that these properties are eminently calculated, by position 
 and fertility, for the location of a body of yeomen and labourers of 
 a superior order ; that the Estates are in the direct vicinity of other 
 located lands, at an easy distance from a river -apable of navigation, 
 adjoining to roads already formed, and within forty miles of the 
 town of Montreal; that mills and other conveniences have been 
 erected, and that the whole of the Estates are susceptible of culUva, 
 tion, and may be brought into a productive state in a comparatively 
 short space of time. 
 
 The Commissioners likewise report, that the pecuniary arrange- 
 ments connected with these purchases, have been entered into with 
 a due regard to the nature of the property and the interests of the 
 Association, it having been agreed that one-third of the purchase 
 money shall be paid in the first and second years after the date of 
 the agreement; possession to be given upon payment of the first 
 instalment, and the remaining two-thirds of the whole amount to 
 be covered by Shares in the permanent Stock of the Association ; 
 
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 #ith the express understanding, that none of the Shares shall be 
 disposed of except with the authority of the Board, and through 
 the Broker of the Association, for a period of three years. 
 
 The Commissioners Ukewise report, that they have reason to 
 anticipate they shall be able to cover nearly the whole of the first 
 cash payment for their Estates in East Canada by a well arranged 
 System of Emigration, with the object to their location and settlement 
 in the ensuing year. 
 
 The Commissioners have not omitted that attention to Western 
 ©r Upper Canada which the character of the district particularly 
 demands, but having availed themselves of the local knowledge 
 md eminent position of Sir Allan Macnab, to whom, as Chief 
 Commissioner, the superintendance of the whole of the Estates of 
 the Association in British North America will be intrusted, they 
 content themselves, and they feel confident the Meeting will appre- 
 ciate the motives which infiuence them not to dilate farther on the 
 subject, with stating that arrangements have been made, thiough 
 which very extensive tracts of country will be acquired m the 
 Western Province, through the instrumentality of Sir Allan Macnab, 
 tt a minimum price ; and that he has undertaken to place perma- 
 nently a considerable portion of the capital Stock of the Association 
 in Canada at par, subject to a condition against transfer, except 
 tirith the authority of the Board, and through the Broker of the 
 Association, for the period of three years. 
 
 That inexhaustible source of wealth, the Fisheries of the American 
 Seas, have engaged the anxious attention of the Board; and the 
 Commissioners report, that the arrangements they have already 
 made, and the negotiations they have in progress, justify them in 
 declaring, that at the same time that they shall be able to plant a 
 large tract of country in Prince Edward's Island with a body of 
 Agriculturists, they cannot fail to succeed in creating a rivalry to 
 the citizens of the United States, who at present avail themselves of 
 the riches of the British-American Seas, to the prejudice of British 
 subjects and British enterprize, by the establishment of a Fishery 
 
•t Holland Bay, for the purchase of# 
 tike Commissioners have agreed. 
 
 Various other extensive properties in E-> /-f - » '™''J 
 .ountry borfering upon New Brunswclc and East t^'^f- » 
 ,e,eral Estates in Prince Edward's Island, hare been selected b, 
 te Commissioners for futnre consideration-moet, of whvc^ ar. 
 valuable from their contiguity to the properttes •"»<ly agreed for 
 and fitted for other extended opemtions of the Assocat on non, 
 onl>em will, however, be purchased until the Agents of the Cotn- 
 :irn;rsin\heCo.o„ieshavereported upon each a^dasc^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 not onlv the prices which ought to be offered, but the peculiar 
 ^ilTct^r of the different localities, and the eligibility of the estate, 
 for immediate and advantageous settlement. 
 
 The Commissioners have the satisfaction to report, that th.f 
 «p^ t to send a body of E.nigmnts to Prince Edward's stand 
 before .he close of the present season, and to cairy out theu 
 o^eTtion, upon an extensive scale in the spring and summer of 
 t! e ensuing year. 
 
 Having immediate reference to the completion of ihe purchasef 
 already made, the advances vrhich may be rendered necessary to 
 TZe Emi^ation to the properties of the Association and the.. 
 hnpTovement and colonization, as likewise to carry out the pending 
 arrangements in Westerr. Canada, the Commrssu^ners propos^ a^ 
 issue of 10,000 Shares in the Capital Stock of the Association ^n 
 rCountr;,andanequalamountin Canada, thelattertobe subject 
 
 to Ihe restrictions agaLt sale and transfer before particularized . 
 
 The attention of the Deputation having been immediately directed 
 to the ^ants and necessities of the Industrial Classes-not only by 
 actual observation, but by the anxieties manifested by that truly im- 
 portant body the working Clergy of Scotland, and m England, for 
 the improvement of the social condition of the people,^they sub- 
 mitted to the Commissioners the expediency of combimng with the 
 objects of the Association a provident institution, whereby a bene- 
 
lhe«i»tri?)Uiior)s of lalwurera and artizans he effectually accwott- 
 hUei, and made a[)i)licable to the furtheraucfc of Emigratioi» npon 
 • large scale, and whereby the actual state of the Industrial ClasBW 
 might be improved, under the guidance of true philanthropy, ;ui'l 
 Aeif social condition rendered independant n' that degrading ! u. 
 of pftupennD bjf which so Urge a bod} i< now debased. 
 
 Ifce^ommisslwiers acting upon tin' rrrdnuin'iulatiork, which had 
 their .ordiul approbation, iiud vvhitli they aff satisfied will be 
 . fiiily appreciated by the Meeting, are actively proceeding witt» the 
 arrangements for this adjunct of Uie Association,— the Univeriial 
 PronUeiit institution; which may, in the first insiance, reriuirethe 
 aidof thn parent pstablishment, ^nt w'lich will ullinuilely uflbrd it 
 immense monotary support ; some ut Ui.' leading principles of winch 
 an to promote and extend Emigration by the donations and sul)- 
 SCriptions of the benevolent, in aid of the savings and acciiiuulu- 
 tions ot the labourer and artizan; and the great and extended 
 objects of which are, the advancement of the moral and social con- 
 dition <jf the Industrial Classu. 
 
 Tlie rounri! 1iai?!ng taken the lleport intocf>Ttsid(,'ratioii, 
 and (lclit)craied upon the same: 
 
 Oil thv iMoliou v.[ Major (ii'ii. the Hon. Siii .Ia.mks Cocki'.imin, 
 Bait., Seconded by Neil Makolm, Es(i., nf Polialloch^ it wa» 
 uninimmtsly resolved :— > 
 
 lijitt ihu Ht'iJOrt iinu- in-fsi'iitod l)f luluptt'd, aiul uct>Ml iijioii j 
 Mid that a Saljscriptiou bo iiumcdiatf,4y t)pontMi lor Shar-s la 
 the (';ij.it;il StOCic. 
 
 On thn Motion of the lion. Siu W. Ociisih, J3avt., Sccoiidcil 
 ]<\ ,I\^. 11. I'Kir.us, Esq., Her 'Majesty's Solicitcv-tJeiicial uf 
 I'liiice I'.dwaid's Island, it was luianimously resolved : — 
 
 T!i,i': ill" 1" -1 flianlv< of tills Asaociutlon he ctjiirrvcct fo tha 
 
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 Lord Provosts of Edinburgh and Glasgow lor their polite 
 attention in presiding over the Meetings held in these Cities, 
 and to the Provost of Paisley, and to Dr. Alison, Sir William 
 Drysdale, the Hon. Sir John Campbell, Bart., the Very 
 Reverend Principal MacFarlane, the Rev. Dr. Aiton, Isanc 
 Buchanan, Esq., Member of the Legislative Assembly in 
 Canada, the Hon. Sir William Dunbar, Bart., Sheriff Alison, 
 the Rev. Dr. Norman Macleod, the Hon. Sir John Cunning- 
 hame Fairlie, Bart., William Murray, Esq., the Hon. Sir 
 William Alex. Maxwell, Bart., W. Houstoun, Esq., tlie 
 Rev. Dr. Burns, and the Rev. Mr. Baird, who respectively 
 Moved and Seconded the Resolutions then carried ; also to 
 John Bowie, Esq., W. S., for his kind and valuable as- 
 sistance. 
 
 It wiis proposed from the Chair, and unanimously resolved :— 
 
 That the thanks of the Council be given to the Deputation who 
 proceeded to Scotland, viz.. Sir Allan N. Macnab, Sir Richard 
 Broun, Dr. Rolph, and W. Andrews, Esq., for the higldy 
 efficient and satisfactory manner in which they discharged 
 their mission. 
 
 After a vote of thanks to his Grace the Duke ov 
 Argyll, for presiding on the occasion, the Council ad- 
 journed, subject to the call of the. Board of Commissioners. 
 
 ARGYLL, 
 
 Preside;:t. 
 
For Eniigi-ation and Col(mixation. 
 
 Capital £1,000,000., in £20. Sharea.— Deposit £5. per Share. 
 
 Form of Application for Shares. 
 
 1842. 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 I request that my Name may he inserted in the 
 
 Subscription List for Shares in the Capital Stock 
 
 of the British-American Association ; and the deposit 
 
 of £b. per Share on the number allotted to me shall be paid 
 
 to the Bankers of the Association when required. 
 
 To the Commissioneis of 
 
 The British-Avierican Association, 
 
 29, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London. 
 
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