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vice, some relative to civil legislation, others directly con-cerning the means for receiving and establishing immigrants,and regarding the regime and inspection of the colonies.Among the former is the law which regulates the hireboth of native and foreign laborers. The latter includesthe creation of an office specially devoted to the manage-ment of immigration and colonization, to the selection ofGovernment lands, the sale of them in lots at low prices,the establishment of sanatary measures for vessels carryingimmigrants, the creation of colonial nuclei on fertile landsnear large markets, the improvement of means of communi-cation for the existing nuclei and for those that may be es-tablished, the creation of a territorial tax which may con-tribute to the utilization of lands, hitherto uncultivated,in the neighbourhood of cities and important towns.

« Improve the colonial nuclei at present in existence,giving them easy means of communication with thenearest markets, and other necessary advantages to enablethem to become attractive ; prepare lots of land in theneighbourhood of railroads and not far from markets andtowns where the immigrant may meet with easy sale forthe product of his labour; substitute the official colonialagency, created by decree of April 20 th 1864, by aninspector general with more ample powers, wffiich shouldcomprize the introduction, reception and establishing ofimmigrants; attaching to the same an auxiliary boardcomposed of natives and foreigners, to be consulted inmatters refering to colonization and which should cooperatein the reception and establishing of immigrants. »

And so it ought to be, because if, as Ribeyrolles says,