EMIGRANTS IN AMERICA.
The details of the new bill, for the treatment of
emigrants arriving at the port of New York, are briefly
given in a letter from the American correspondent of the
Dublin Freeman's Journal. By this bill a new department
is created which is to have the whole charge of the
emigration, at the head of which is a Board of
Commissioners, who assume the control of the emigrant,
even before the ship arrives in port. If in health, he
is directed to a good lodging-house, or to the best mode
of conveyance to the country; if sick or destitute, he
is taken to a hospital, where special attention is paid
to his necessities, and when he leaves it, he is located,
at the expense of the department, in some part of the
interior. To create a fund for this purpose, a tax of
one dollar a-head is laid on every passenger, and the
state surrenders a surplus fund of 128,000 dollars, a
balance of years from the head money paid by emigrants.
