These people, though well able to settle, are given to understand that as soon as they do so their participation in the eviction fund will cease, and thus it will be seen that a direct premium is being paid to dishonesty.
"In one case a widow woman was summoned for being on the farm from which she was at that time evicted.

Finding out that one of her children was ill, I applied to the magistrate at the hearing of the case only to impose a nominal fine.

In consequence she was fined one penny, but sooner than pay this she went to gaol, though she had several head of cattle and, prior to her eviction, a very nice farm.

The case of this woman fairly illustrates the combination which has existed to avoid the fulfilment of obligations.
"The amount of fines paid for similar offences comes, in several instances, to nearly what I require to effect a settlement.

Some of the tenants actually wrote to the late agent on this estate begging him to evict them in order that they might come in for a share of the money raised for the relief of distress, and this clearly shows beyond dispute that the well-meaning subscribers to the fund will be more or less responsible for any further evictions to which it may be necessary to resort.