Under the law of New York. which provides that no person should land an immigrant passenger without giving bonds for his support for a reasonable time or provide that he should not become a pauper. a tax of once $2. once $1.50. and once $1 was laid. Now since that law was passed one million of immigrants have landed at N ew York. and they have paid these different rates. and vessels have paid $1. $1.50 and $2 a head upon the immigrants they imported. I think that for a short time they paid $2.50 per head. I think that New York under this law has received millions of dollars during the last fifteen or twenty years. Now. I believe that that money was expended by the commissioners of immigration pretty faithfully and judiciously. I think that they did provide that as soon as the immigrants came in they should be hurried to the cars and sent to the Western and Northwestern States before they became paupers and their State agencies took these paupers off if they were paupers and provided for them withont charging anything.
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