Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-13
EMIGRANT COMPANIES.
AMERICAN
EMIGRANT COMPANY.

EMIGRANT COMPANY,
CHARTERED FOR THE
PURPOSE OF PROCURING AND AS
SISTING EMIGRANTS FROM FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES TO SETTLE
IN THE UNITED STATES.
Incorporated with an Authorized Capital of
SI.OOO,OOO.
Paid up Capital, S5aO,O0O.
Presidential: G. HAMMOND, President of Ex-
change Bank, Hartford, Conn
Vice President-.FRANCISG GILLETTE, late Sem
atOr in Congress from Connecticut
W DirectqrS-A &. Hammond, F. Chamberlin. II. X.
WEIGH, John Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut; s. p.
bert, Boston: james G. Slavery. Des Moines, Iowa
York.
Treasurer and Secretary-John Hooker Office, No.
HllPs Block, Hartford, Conn.
oS General Agent for Emgration,-JQhn Williams;
Agent for the State of Maryland-W. r. COLE, n.
L. corner of Baltimore and North streets.
The object of this Company is to import loborers,
especially skilled aborers from Great Britain, Ger
many, Belgium. France, Switzerland Norway, and
Sweden, for Manufacturers, Railroad Companies, and
distribute through the interior of the country emf
grants who have already arrived at the seaboard ci
ties To accomplish this it has established extensive
agencies through those countries, as well as through
The United States, and undertakes to hire men in
their native homes and the places where they land
and safely to transfer them to their employers in the
country system so complete has been put in Oper-
alton here that miners mechanics includng workers
IN IRON and steel of every class weavers and agri
cultural, railroad, and other laborers, now be
procured pr without much delay, in any numbers, and
az n reasonable cost. The Company also supplies la
Dor from New York and other parties in the interior
OF me country, who desire emgrants who have land
eu IN TINS country to be sent forward. Companies Of
twenty may be safely sent to any designated
Legality t,,1 D under the care Of a conductor
LINE REQUIRED r0R EXECUTIoN.-Sueh orders can
Of course, only be filled as the persons described may
DC obtained but the utmost diligence and care will be
used in transmitting operatives ordered in this way
anu eXact attention VIII be paid to the requirements
=, ExPESsEs.-All orders should be accopanied by
the sum OF one dollar for each person ordered as an
Application Fee. And in addition to that remit
tance sufficient to pay the travelling expenses of the
persons ordered and the commission specified
hereafter: II the order should not be filed this
money will be refunded mt any time on the draft of
TIE n party who RENTED it, except the Application
CONDITIONS on WHICH THE AMERICAN ENIGRANT COM
PANY UNDERTAKES THE HIRING IN, AND FORWARD
~, ING OF WoRKMEN FROM. NEW YORK.
l. mat 1t Will make all practicable effort to obtain
the operatives required who fulfill nearly as pos
si5le III the conditions of the order.
Z That, in advancing money TO pay the travelling
expenses OF operatives it will take all possible pre-
caution to procure such security as may be obtain
able for its repayment.
3. That, if tho operatives cannot be obtained the
money advanced to procure the same will be re-
4. That the parties ordering advance to the Com
pany an amount sufficient to detray the expenses of
the operatives ordered and the Company fee for the
same, such money to be refunded if the operatives
TERMs-In addition to the fee of one dollar, in al
cases to be paid on making this 0ppiicaon, the fol
lowing charges will be made when operatives are or
dered to be sent forward:
OPERATIVES IMPORTED SPECIALLY.
/. Inc American Emigrant Company, under the sane
ton OF the law to encourage immigration" imports
20 order operatives of every description from any of
the following countries, to wit: England, Ireland.
Scotland Wales, Germany France, Belgium, Switz-
erland, Norway, Sweden. Denmark. 1t undertakes,
through Its widely ramiicd system of European
agencies to exercise the utmost possible care in the
selection OF the men it hires-to make the necessary
egal contract with them in their own country to be
duly rathed on their arrival hereto transport them
from their homes in Europe to New York-to deliye err
them on their arrival here to the importer or his
The Time necessary for the execution of an order
VIII depend upon the nature of the occupation and
binary Mechanics, Miners, Railroad and Agricultural
lab3TerS &c, may however, be expected usually to
steamship, and from Germany, Belgium France
or Switzerland in about three months. In
Northern Europe the time required will depend upon
nlied very promptly. If operatives are ordered by
sailing ship 1t may be expected to occupy about four
weeks longer than by steamer
The Expense, except the fee payable to the Com
pany, Will be repaid by the emigrant; but it will be
hecessary IN giving an order to import workmen, to
deposit with the Company sum equal to the proba-
pie amount necessary to cXpend in the transporta-
Hon OF the persons ordered. An exact account of
hcse expenses of emigration is rendered on the de-
nvery OF the immigrant, and any balance of the de-
post Is then refunded The amount necessary TO
deposit Will depend upon the port of embarkation
anu the extent OF and-traveling in Europe. But
as L genera rule, when gold is at q premium of 10
per cent about so by steamship and S55 by sailing
British emgrnts and to this about f ts SIS eH shoud be-
added Tor Immigrants from any Of the ports of Cont
mental Europe, This, let it be rendered, is not n
probable outlay necessary, any unexpended surplus
Of which will be refunded by the Company to the
importer and all of the actual expense Except the
C9mpanys fee will be repaid by the workman.
The following are the CONDITIONS on chicHfh AME-
KHAN t: ENlGRANT COMPANY undertakes the importt-
|. That 1t will deliver Immediately on arrival Mt
New York, to the parties importing, any operatives
human life
,. That it will make all practicable effort to obtain
me operatiyes required. having as careful inquiry
maze as Is possible in regard to their moral charac
ter and capacity as workmen.
). That in advancing money for the expenses of
thel emigration to foreign operatives, it will use Ill
possible precaution in procuring such individual
lolnt and collateral security is obtanable for its
repayment.
A. That if the operatives ordered cannot be obtain
ed, the money will be refunded
D. That the parties importing advance to the Com
pany the amount necessary to pay the travelling eX-
penses OF the operatives ordered.
hecnanlcS OF every Kind
Miners, Gardeners, Railroad and Agricultural Labor
ers &c., from SO to $50. The amount of this charge
will depend on the quality of the operatives, the
number required residence &c. rs well as the price
OF sterling exchange the expenses of the Company
being chiefly in Europe in such cases.
The Agent of the AMERICAN EMIGRANF COMPANY
Tor the State Of Maryland will furnish upon appli-
cation any additional information, in regard to the
plans of the Company. and will receive orders, upon
the terms above specified for aborers of every class
address or apply to w. r. COLE,
90 g Maryland Agent American Emigr9nt Co.
ocZ-u y. L. cor. Baltimore and North sts