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   GIUSEPPE DEVINCENZI
   Certain provi- You clearly perceive that we should overstep sion requisite limits wliich we have set before us, if Wtì
   should now propose to examine ali that it is in the power of Governmeut to do. We shall touch only on those rnatters which appeal* to us of the greatest importance. We shall say notiliug of the necessity of restoring quiet and tranquillity to those provinces and to those rural distriets by the extinction of brigandage, because this question belongs to a higher order of inquirics, and because, fortuuately, it appears that the brigandage of Southern Italy is approaching its end. Many capitalists and many persous engaged in commercial undertakings would already have go-ne to visit these provinces, of which they under-stood ali the importance, if they had been able to travel throtigli them with security.
   Railwaye and Tliere is nothing which Government can do li n rbo u i b
   of greater utility than to liasten, by ali the
   means in its power, the construction of railways,
   especially of those along the Adriatic and Ionian
   Seas, where our principal cottou-bearing distriets
   are situated, ancl to direct attention, with ali
   alacrity, to the state of the harbours.
   General sy- There is likewise another matter, which more Btem ol irrida- . ^
   tion closely concerns you, and which might greatly
   advance, along with the cultivation ot cotton,
   every agricultural improvement in the Southern
   provinces. One of our principal wants is that of
   studying anew ali the laws of irrigation in refe-
   rence to agriculture. But this will require neither
   a short time nor very easy inquiries, ancl, mean-
   while, as there exists two very ancient Italian
   laws, which are now the laws of the State, but
   which have not yet been introduced into the
   Southern provincens, the laws of aqueduets and
   associations, these last ought to be introduced
   immediately throughout the Avhole kingdom. The-