Colonial Immigration Laws Electronic Resource a Study of the Regulation of I
Colonial Immigration Laws Electronic Resource a Study of the Regulation of I
Emberson Edward Proper
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. Which increase we attribute to industrious temperate life and early marriages. And it would probably have been greater had it not been for losses sustained during the war, and frequent and numerous emigrations from hence to his Majesties newly con- quered or evacuated countries in America. " Conn. Col. Records, iii, 299. l6i] OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES 35 travellers as contrasting with most of the other provinces, are evidence that the authorities gave little or no attention to the admission... of settlers. The one exception to this general statement is found in the law of 1700' which im- posed a bond of ;^50 on masters of vessels bringing in foreigners from places outside of '* Great Britain, Ireland, Jersey and Guernsey, " as a guarantee that the passengers whom they landed would not prove a burden to the colony. The much-disputed clause in the statute of 1663, denying the privileges of freemen to Roman Catholics, may be con- strued as an attempt to restrict the coming of that sect; but even if it were enacted and enforced as a law of the colony, compared to the laws against Roman Catholics in most of the other colonies it was mild indeed, and hardly served as a formidable barrier to any of that faith who might be desir- ous of settling there.
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