ABSTRACT
Emigration certainly is a remedy in so far as it lightened the work of magistrates or lessened the expenses of parish directors; it was little or no remedy, as far as the children themselves were concerns. The “Society for the Suppression of Juvenile Vagrancy” is establishes, having for its object the promotion of emigration among destitute but non-criminal children. The Unions provided outfits costing per head, and paid rail and steamer fares to Plymouth, whilst the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners defrayed all other expenses with money derived from land sales in Australia. The extract seems to imply that various London Boards of Guardians made it a practice of contracting with certain unscrupulous sea-captains for the removal, in particular, of the girls and boys who had become chargeable to the rates. Most of them appeal to the charitable public for funds, some derive a considerable portion of the revenue from moneys paid to them by Boards of Guardians.
