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Excerpt from Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting a Report of the Commissioners of Immigration Upon the Causes Which Incite Immigration to the United States, Vol. 1: Reports of Commissioners The principal causes which operate in the several countries of Europe to Incite emigration to the United States. The extent to which the movement is promoted or stimulated by steamship or other carrying companies or their agents for the resulting passenger business. The extent to which contract laborers are engaged, openly or covertly, for exportation to the United States, through what agencies, and for what classes of employment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.