Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-04

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, s54O,OOO.
Presidential: G. HAMMOND, President of Ex-
change Bank, Hartford, Conn.
Vice President-FRANCIS GILLETTE, late Sem
ator in Congress from Connecticut.
Directors-A. G. Hammond F. Chamberln, II. K.
WEIGH, John Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut; S. P.
bert Boston: James c. Slavery, Des Moines, Iowa.
Bankers-Bank of New York, IS Wall street, New
York.
9 Hills Block Hartford, Conn.
&c General Agent &c for Emigration;--J9hn Williams;
Office, No. Bowling Green, New York
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 laborers.
especially skilled laborers from Great Britain Ger
many Belgium, France Switzerland Norway, and
other employers of labor in America, and also to
distribute through the interior of the country emf
grants who have already arrived at the seabOarl c
agencies through those countries ms we'll rs tbronrb
the United States, and undertakes to hire men in
their native homes and at 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 Including workers
IN iron and steel of every class weavers and agr-
cultural, railroad, and other aborerS can now be
at reasonable cost. The Company also supplies Ia
Dor from New York and other parties in the interior
of the country, who desire emgrants who have land
ed IN this country to be sent forward Companies of
twenty may be safely sent to any designated
LOCALITY under the care of a conductor.
TINE REQUIRED FOR EXECUTION.-Such orders can
OF course only be filled the persons described may
be obtained but the utmost diligence and care will be
used in transmitting operatives ordered in this way
and exact attention will be paid to the requirements
specified in the order.
ExPENsEs.-All orders should be accopanied by
the sum OF one dollar for each person ordered as an
Application Fee. And in addition to that a remit
lance sufficient to pay the travelling expenses of the
persons ordered and the commission as specified
hereafter. If the order should not be filled this
money will be refunded at any time on the draft of
the party who RENTED it, except the Application
Fee aforesaid.
CONDITIONS on WHICH THE AMERICAN EMIGRANT COM
PANY UNDERTAKES THE HIRING IN, AND FORWARD
ING OF WoRkMEN FROM, NEW YORK.
l. That it will make all practicable effort to obtain
the operatives required, who fulfill nearly as pos
slble, the conditions of the order.
q 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
g. That, if the operatives cannot be obtained the
money advanced to procure the same will be re-
funded.
L. 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
are not procured
TERMS In addition to the fee of one dollar, IN all
eases to De pad on making this dpptcation the fol-
lowing charges will be made when operatives are or
dered to be sent forward:
OPERATIVES IMPORTED SPECIALLY.
The American Emigrant Company, under the sane
ton of the law to encourage Immigration imports
to order operatives of every description from any of
the following countries, to wit: England Ireland,
Scotland, Wales, Germany France Belgium Swift
erland, Norway, Sweden. Denmark. 1t undertakes
through its widely ramitied system of European
agencies to exercise the utmost possible care in the
selection of the men it hires-to make the necessary
legal contract with them in their own country to be
duly ratified on their arrival hereto transport them
them on their arrival here to the importer or his
Agent;
The Tim necessary for the execution of an order
viii depend upon the nature of the occupation and
the nationality OF the men required. Orders for or
binary Mechanics, Miners, Railroad and Agricultural
aborerS, &c, may however, be expected usually to
be filled from Great Britain in about two months by
steamship, and from Germany, Belgium, France
or Switzerland in about three months In
Northern Europe the time required will depend upon
the season OF the year, IN the summer orders can be
nlied very promptly Ii operatives are ordered by
sailing ship, it 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
necessary, in giving order to import workmen to
deposit with the Company equal to the proba-
Bile amount necessary to eXpend in the transporta-
ton of the persons ordered. An exact account of
these expenses OF emigration is rendered on the de-
livery 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
| and the extent of and-traveling in Europe. But
as general rule when gold is at a premium of 40
ship will be sufficient to pay all the expenses Of
British emigrans, and to this about SIS should be
added for Emigrants from any of the ports of CONT
mental Europe, This, let it be rendered, is not a
statement of the exact cost, but an estimate Of the
probable outlay necessary any unexpended surplus
of which will be refunded by the Company to the
importer, and all of the actual expense Ieycent tbe
Company fec will be repaid by the workman
The following are the CONDITIONS on which the AME-
RICAN EMIGRANT COMPANY undertakes the impoyta-
ton Of foreign lcOrkB3en:
l. That twill deliver Immediately on arrival at
New YORK, to the parties importing, any operatives
whose passage money it has paid if they escape the
dangers OF the sea and the ordinary casualties of
. That it will make all practicable effort to obtain
lhe operatives required, having as careful inquiry
made as Is possible IN regard to their moral charac-
ter and capacity workmen.
), That i'll advancing money for the expenses of
their emigration to foreign operatives it will use all
possible precaution in procuring such individual,
JOINT and collateral security is obainabe for its
repayment.
4. That if the operatives ordered cannot he obtain
ed, the money will be refunded.
.. mat the parties importing advance to the Com
penses OF the operatives ordered.
IERMS.-Men, including Mechanics of every kind
Miners, Gardeners Railroad and Agricultural labor
ers, &c from $40 to $50. The amount of this charge
Will depend on the quality Of the operatives the
number required, residence &c. well as the price
Of sterling exchange, the expenses of the Company
being chiefly in Europe in such cases.
The Agent of the AMERICAN EMIGRANT COMPANY
for the State of Maryland will furnish upon appI-
cation, any additional information, in regard to the
the terms above specified for laborers of every class
Address apply to w. r. COLE
Maryland Agent American Emigrant Co.
oc2-tf n. T. cor. Baltimore and North sts.