The present condition and character of the immigration movement
Subtitle: an argument made at the Conference of Charities, Saratoga Springs, Sept. 7, 1876, in opposition to the proposed national head-money tax on immigrants
By: by Hamilton Andrews Hill
Contributors: Conference of Charities (1876 : Saratoga Springs, N.Y.)
Publisher: Alfred Mudge & Son, printers
Published: 1876
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
Subjects: Poll tax; Emigration and immigration
Notes: Bound with: Emigration and superabundant population considered : in a letter to Lord Ashley / by Amicus populi. -- Letters on Irish immigrants and Irishmen generally : an attempt to place both on more estimable ground than, in the opinions of some members of this community, they occupy at present ; addressed to the right Rev. John Hughes / by M. Carey. -- Letter on Irish immigrants : addressed to the Right Reverend Bishop Hughes. Letter IV  / [M. Carey]. -- The emigrant's guide to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, Lower Canada, Upper Canada, and New Brunswick : containing an enumeration of the advantages which each colony offers ; with the regulations adopted by His Majesty's Government to facilitate male and female emigration ; the price of passage, certainty of permanent employment, and rates of wages ; list of tradesmen and mechanics most wanted, and the pecuniary assistance offered to married men and single females, towards defraying the expense of their passage, with copies of the official forms to be transmitted to the Colonial Department by each emigrant ; also, instructions for the guidance of military out-pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, who may be desirous of commuting their pensions, with a view to their becoming settlers in the British colonies. -- Emigration for the million : being the digest of a plan for more equally locating the population of Great Britain and Ireland throughout the British Empire. / by Gershom. -- The emigration of women to Oregon : a report to the directors of the New-England Emigrant Aid Co. -- Objections to a federal emigration bureau / [Hamilton Fish]. -- The emigrant's best instructor, or, The most recent and important information respecting the United States of America, selected from the works of the latest travellers in that country, particularly Bradbury, Hulme, Brown, Birkbeck, etc. ... the English laws on emigration ... and every other information needful to the emigrant / by John Knight. -- Correspondence with Her Majesty's Government on emigration / National Benevolent Emigration Fund. -- Things as they are; or, America in 1819 / by an emigrant, just returned to England. -- Western emigration : narrative of a tour to & one year's residence in "Edensburgh," (Illinois,) / by Major Walter Wilkey, an honest yeoman of Mooseboro', state of Maine ; a more humorsome and interesting "Traveller's guide to the West," was never before published, and by which it will be perceived that the famous "Maine-pineswamp speculation," has been completely out-done!. -- A circular from the Commissioner of Emigration to the agriculturists, manufacturers and capitalists of Indiana / prepared by John A. Wilstach. -- To the emigrant farmer, a view of the advantages of climate, soil, product, government, and institutions of Texas : the central maritime portion of the United States of America : comprising a candid statement of privations and difficulties to be encountered, and of the mode of culture and expenditure of labour conducive to success ; with remarks on other fields of emigration / by a practical farmer. -- Information published by His Majesty's commissioners for emigration : respecting the British colonies in North America. -- A working man's recollections of America. -- A Memorial to the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America / by a company of Swiss settlers. -- Emigration : practical advice to emigrants, on all points connected with their comfort and economy, from making choice of a ship, to settling on and cropping a farm. -- Emigration : directions where to go, and how to get there.