sanitary officer,
School Board visitor or inspector, to enter the tents, vans, canal-boats,
or other movable or temporary habitations, at any time or in any place,
and detain, if necessary, for the purpose of seeing that the law was
being properly carried out; and any one obstructing such officer in his
duty, and not carrying out the law, to be subject to a fine or
imprisonment for each offence.

Ninth,--It would be well if arrangements could be made with lords of
manors, the Government, or others who are owners of waste lands, to grant
those Gipsies who are without vans, and living in tents only, prior to
the act coming into force, a long lease at a nominal rent of, say, half
an acre or an acre of land, for ninety-nine years, on purpose to
encourage them to settle down to the cultivation of it, and to take to
honest industry--as many of them are prepared to do. By this means a
number of the Gipsies would collect together on the marshes and commons,
and no doubt other useful and profitable occupation would be the outcome
of the Gipsies being thus localised, and in which their children could
and would take an important part; and in addition to these things the
social and educational advantages to be reaped by following such a course
would be many.

I have not the least doubt in my mind but that if a law be passed
embodying these brief, but rough, suggestions, on the one hand, and steps
are taken to encourage them to settle down, in accordance with the idea
thrown out in clause nine, on the other, we shall not have in fifty years
hence an uneducated Gipsy in our midst. Many of the Gipsies are anxious,
I know, for some steps to be taken for the children to be brought up to
work. The operation of the present Hawkers' and Pedlars' Act is acting
very detrimental to the interests of the Gipsy children, as none are
allowed to carry a licence under the age of sixteen, consequently all
Gipsy children, except a few who assist in making pegs and skewers, are
neither going to school nor yet are they learning a trade or in fact work
of any kind; they are simply living in idleness, and under the influence
of evil training that carries mischief underneath the surface.

It is truly appalling to think that over seven hundred thousand sharp,
clever, well-formed human beings, and with plenty of muscular power,
have, as I have said before, been roaming about Europe for many centuries
with no object before them, and accomplishing nothin