Wakefield proposes nine articles, including that land in a new colony should be sold and not granted, but that land already granted be taxed at a percentage of the rent, and that the proceeds from land sales be used to form an emigration fund to transport British labourers free of cost. By these measures it was hoped the supply of labourers would be 'proportioned to the demand for labour at each settlement; so that Capitalists shall never suffer from an urgent want of Labourers, and that Labourers shall never want well-paid employment'. It was also proposed that preference be given to young emigrants with as near as possible equal numbers of the sexes in order that the population in time would become self-sustaining. These articles can be seen to have informed the South Australia Act in 1834.

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