North American Colonial Association of Ireland

	
				North American
			Colonial Association of Ireland

		   Incorporated and Empowered by Act of Parliament.
			Capital £300.000 in 15.000 SHARES of £20.
	   	With power to the Shareholders to increase the Capital 
		    to One Million.

				Governor
			The Right Honourable Earl Fitzwilliam

				Deputy Governor
			     Henry Kingscote Esq.

				Directors.
The Right Hon.Lord Milton. M.P			The Hon.Frederick Ponsonby
Colonel Henry Bruen				John Pirie. Esq. Ald.
Edward.H.Chapman. Esq.				C.H.Clay. Esq.				
Captain Forbes.R.N				D.Henchy.Esq.
Donald Maclean. Esq.				Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill , Bart.
Sir James Duke. M.P				Colonel North				
Robert Latouche. Esq.				John Harman. Esq.
W.W.Jameson.Esq.				T.L.Murray.Esq.
H.Ryan.Esq.					The Rev.R.H.Wall. D.D.
H Loftus Wigram. Esq.

				Bankers:
			Messrs. Ladbrokes, Kingscote, & Co. London.
			        Latouche and Co. Dublin.


This Association is formed to promote,superintend,and conduct Emigration from 
the United Kingdom; and to colonize and settle with a British population the 
fertile Provinces of North America.

To enable the Association to carry out these important objects, their Act of 
Incoporation confers upon them very valuable and extensive privileges and powers; 
it authorized them to acquire by purchase,or free grant,Lands in the Colonies to 
any extent; it enables them to charter or own Steam or other Ships, for the purposes 
of Emigration and intercommunication between the several Provinces; it likewise 
empowers the Company to act as Bankers in England, by receiving deposits from 
persons emigrating with Capital, and giving them Bills on the Colonies; and it 
authorises the Company to Establish Banks in every place where they have Emigration 
Stations and Land Settlements.

The Capital of the Company is £200,000, divided into 15,000 shares of £20.each upon 
which £2. per Share is to be paid at the time of subscribing, and the remainder as 
the Directors may see fit, by calls not exceding £2. per Share, at intervals not 
less than three months from the	date of each call.

The individual responsibility of the Shareholders is limited, by the Act of Parliament, 
to the amount of their respective shares.

The Shares already subscribed for have been taken by Land-owners and Capitalists, 
in about equal proportions; it is desired that the remainder shall be so allotted 
as to preserve the union of these two great interests; and that the management of 
the affairs of the Company may be continued, as it now is, in the hands of Directors 
having a large stake in the Company and fairly representing both classes, so that 
all the objects contemplated by the Act,may be vigorously and efficiently carried 
out.

The Company have purchased the Seignory of Beauharnois, containing upwards of 
200,000 acres, together with large tracts of Land in the adjoining Townships; 
and the whole (whether considered in regard to climate,soil, or locality) may 
be said to be situate in the very best part of the Province of Lower Canada.

The property is of sufficient magnitude to afford an ample field for the immediate 
locaion of a large number of Emigrants; and it is so far advanced to a state of 
Settlement that no persons need be deterred from occupying Land there,by the dread 
of those privations and difficulties to which early Settlers are exposed in 
establishing themselves in a desert country.

The estate has already upon it a population of 12,000 souls:it is provided with 
eight Protestant and four Catholice Churches and Chapels, and fifty-one Schools; 
it has several Grist and Saw Mills, with abundance of water power for others in 
various parts of the Property,whenever the wants of an increasing population 
shall call for their erection.The whole property is intersected by good roads, 
and no part of the Estate is distant more than half a-days journey from the port 
of the Emigrants debarkation.

Beauharnois is in itself admirably adapted for carrying out all the objects of 
the Act of Parliament with the greatest efficiency, and the smallest expence of 
Management; it is upon the St.Laurence,the high road of Emigration from Great 
Britain to the Canadas; it is nearly opposite the Island and City of Montreal, 
which may be called the Portal of Upper Canada,and is the point whence five-sixths 
of the Emigrants from this country are distributed over the British Settlements 
in both Provinces.

Montreal has upwards of 30,000 inabitants, and is rapidly increasing in population 
and wealth; it affords a steady market for the advantageous disposal of the surplus 
produce of the Company's Estate, and a ready mart for the supply of those articles 
of convenience and comfort which are required for the wants of a young and growing 
settlement.

It is the intention of the Company,at their Offices in London and Dublin,to organise 
a system by which they will be enabled to afford to persons about to emigrate, 
accurate information as to the demand and supply of labor in the various Colonies: 
and the Company will contract for,or themselves provide,Ships well found in every 
particular,for the convenient transmission of Emigrants,upon reasonable terms, to 
the different places where labour may be in demand. By a careful attention to 
these objects,the evils that have hitherto flowed from spontaneous emigration, 
without previous regulations,will be greatly mitigated, if not entirely removed.

The Company will keep at their head OFfices, at the principal Ports of debarkation, 
an account of the prices and descriptions of,and the mode of making application for, 
Crown Lands in the different Colonies: they will likewise keep a register of Lands 
for disposal, and negotiate the purchase and sale of Colonial Property in various 
stages of improvement and cultivation; so that an Emigrant with small funds may, 
even before he quits his native country, fix upon his intended Settlement, and 
proceed to his place of destination without being subjected to expences and loss of 
time, or be exposed to the frauds that have been too often practised upon Emigrants, 
who have taken their little capital to a strange land without any settled plan or 
fixed spot for their location.

Although the North American Colonies offer a wide field of profitable enterprise, 
it is not the intention of the Company, themselves, to embark in Commercial or 
Agricultural Speculations; believing that all such undertakings can be more efficiently 
and economically conducted by private individuals than by public Companies, it will 
be the province of this Association to encourage all well-founded projects of this 
description, by infusing into the Colonies where they purchase Lands an adequate 
supply of the two great elements of prosperity-Labour and Capital.

The Revenues of the Company will be derived from the Rent of their fixed property;
the Settlement and Sale of Wild Lands,and the profits resulting from their Banking 
operations in the Provinces.

The establishment of New Settlement has long been in the United States the source of 
profitable speculation to both Companies and individuals. It is well known that many 
of these speculations have been both directly and indirectly aided by British Capital, 
and carried out with the assistance of British Labour. In the Canadas, there can be no 
doubt but that similar undertakings will be attended with the same success; and the 
superabundant population and unemployed Capital of the Mother Country, when transferred 
to her own Colonies. will increase their wealth and power, instead of adding to the 
strength and prosperity of a rival State.

Applications for Shares (if by post, postage free) to the Clerk, Mr John More at the 
Offices of the Assocation, 2 Bank Buildings, London, and 108 Marlborough Street, Dublin; 
or to the Bankers, Messrs Ladbrokes, Kingscote, and Co, London, and Messrs Latouche 
and Co, Dublin; or the Solicitors, Messrs Charles Pearson and Wilkinson,Guildhall Yard, 
London, and Messrs Young and Murdoch, Mountjoy Square, Dublin. Also the Managers of 
the several Banks at Nenagh.