Trade of the Plantations and _Great Britain_ would
not interfere with such Projects; but on the contrary they would highly
contribute to the mutual Support of each other, with prudent Management
and Care.

The main Difficulty, Trouble, and Expence will chiefly consist in
sending over such Persons as are before-mentioned, and afterwards in
finding them Habitations, Maintenance, and Work when they are settled in
_Virginia_, during the Term of their Service; and after they are free,
with a Livelihood and Imployment for their Posterity.

There can be no Injury in such moderate legal Compulsion as forces
People to be honest and industrious, though it be contrary to their
Inclinations or their false Notions, which ought to be subjected to the
publick Good and Opinion of the Community; and restrained and directed
by the civil Power to pursue such Methods as the Legislature shall judge
most convenient for the united Interest of all the Society or Empire.

Upon this Principle it will be esteemed no Hardship upon our
unfortunate, or lazy, poor, idle Vagrants, nor profligate Wretches, if
the Government obliged them to be transported, and then found Work and a
plentiful Support for them and their Families, since this would tend as
well to their private as the publick Good; it would employ our People
who cannot have Work, or that will not voluntarily labour; it would
secure our Houses and our Pockets, it would ease our Parishes, clear our
Streets, Doors, and Roads, and mightily encrease our Manufactures, and
cultivate our vast Tracts of rich Land that are now but Wildernesses
over-run with large Trees, and inhabited by Deer, Wild-Fowls, _&c._

In order for this some such Laws as the following might suffice. As
first, Persons of any Imployment that can produce sufficient
Certificates of their Honesty, and that after due Application they
cannot get Work, or that they have been reduced to mean Circumstances by
Misfortunes, with such like, should be sent over at the Expence of the
Government, which should also allow them Land and Necessaries for their
Settlement; in Return for which they should do such moderate Work for
the Benefit of the Government, as they shall be ordered for the half of
seven Years, to be thus imployed, _viz._ one Day for themselves, and one
Day for the Government; and so on by Turns, observing _Sunday_ as a Day
of Rest and Devotion. And after the Expiration of these seven Years they
should be free, and might wor