Such persons may be provided for by being sent to a country where there are vast tracts of fertile land lying uninhabited and uncultivated.

They will be taken care of on their passage; they will get lands on which to employ their industry; they will be furnished with sufficient tools for setting their industry to work; and they will be provided with a certain support, till the fruits of their industry can come in to supply their wants; and all this without subjecting themselves to any master, or submitting to any slavery.

The fruits of every man's own industry are to be his own.

Every man who transports himself thither is to enjoy all the privileges of a free-born subject."[1] [Footnote 1: _Political state of Great Britain, for August_, 1732, Vol.XLIV.p.

150.] Oglethorpe himself stated the object, the motive, and the inducements of such an emigration in the following terms.