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1831 Aug. 11 Colonization Society
1831 Aug. 11

Colonization Society

Title and Contents

Title

Colonization Society /Company/ Proposals

being a Proposal for the formation of a Joint Stock Company by the name of the Colonization Company on a /an entirely/ new principle intituled the Vicinity-maximizing or Dispersion-preventing principle.

Contents

Preface.  should not this come before, and be independent of - the Contents?

Ch.I

Special ends in view.

Ch.II

Means of effectuation - primary characteristic and distinctive - the Vicinity-maximizing or Dispersion-preventing, principle.

Ch.III

Mean of effectuation; pecuniary and quasi-pecuniary.

§.1. Grant of land to the Company from the Sovereign power of the Mother-Country

§.2. Formation by the Company of a capital say of £500,000, to be employed as a means with reference to the above special ends.

§.3. Division and dispersal proposed to be made of the land forming the subject matter of the grant.

§.4. Primary distribution and application proposed to be made of the Capital sum, as above. For the ulterior distribution see Ch.IV, §.1.

Ch.IV

Means of effectuation, incititive. To the several parties whose co-operation is necessary or would be beneficial, inducements to take the several parts respectively required of them /desired at their hands:/

§.1. Shareholders - or Members of the proposed Company and other contributors.

§.2. Settlers without capital - their inducements

§.3. Settlers with Capital - their inducements

§.4. Government of the Mother Country - its inducements.

Ch.V

Company's and Colony's Constitution taken together

§.1. Difficulty suggested

§.2. Remedy proposed

Ch.VI

Company's Constitution

Ch.VII

Colonial Constitution

§.1. What it can not be

§.2. What it may be

Ch.VIII

Colonial Management, what
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    Capital £500,000 2) 2500

    1250 lots each of 80 acres Interest thereon 20/25,000 x80 must be sold each

    at 5 per Cent 100 100,000 year to produce

    2) 25,000 4) 1250

    6,250 325

    £ 2 3

    At 1s paid 15.13 12,500 975

    At 2s per day 31. 6 18,750

    At 3s per day 46. 9

    Ch.I Special ends in view

    Ch.II Means of effectuation -

    persons and character the

    Vicinity maximizing or say

    Dispersion-preventing principle

    1300 Ch.III Means of effectuation -

    £ 100 £ 50 pecuniary and quasi-pecuniary

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    §.1. - Formation of a Joint

    Stock Company - Capital £500,000.

    Members shares

    Cost 100 labourers at

    £15 per year §.2. Grant of land for it

    = 151 1565 add £1300? §.2. Disposal of the land.

    2 Fundamental principle

    31300 §.3. Disposal of the money

    46950 §.4. Distribution i.e. disposal

    of the Capital sum

    Ch.IV Fourth indispensable means

    Inducements to the parties whose

    co-operation is necessary or

    would be conducive

    §.1. Stockholders their

    inducements

    §.2. Settlers without capital -

    their inducements

    §.3. Settlers with capital -

    their inducements

    §.4. Government in the Mother

    Country - its inducements+

    Ch.V. Proposed Constitution of

    the Joint Stock Company in

    London

    Ch.VI Proposed Government in the

    Colony.

    +See Ch.1. Special ends in view
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    Ch. Means of effectuation

    §.1. Vicinity maximized

    Chapter II

    Ch. §1. Means of effectuation, primary, characteristic, and distinctive - the

    Vicinity-maximizing principle or Dispersion-preventing principle.

    Understand by this principle that according to which maximization of vicinity

    will be made as between the spot granted to and occupied by each Colonist, or

    say Settler, relation had to the aggregate of the spots granted to and occupied

    by the Colonists which the grant finds already in existence.

    Rule 1. Choose for the subject matter of each grant after the first, a spot

    contiguous to some part of the land already granted, or as near to the being

    contiguous as the nature of the case will admitt. Such may be the words of the

    rule to which allusion may be considered to be made by the mention of

    Correspondent principle - Vicinity-maximization - or Dispersion-preventing

    principle, as above.(a)

    Observations or Notes

    Of the principle I should expect to find the propriety incontestably

    established. But the proof of it has been diffused and scattered through a

    variety of small publications: and requires (it should seem) to be condensed,

    and placed the whole of it under this one head:

    Here I am aground: for I can not spare time for the endeavour to extract from

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    Ch.II Means of effectuation - primary

    §.1. Vicinity maximizing Dispersion-preventing

    §.2. Dispersion - its evil effects

    §.2. Dispersion - its disad[van]tageous effects.

    Dispersion bears reference to the center of government: of defensive force and of commercial intercourse.

    Of its disadvantageous effects, examples are the following.

    In general, of the evil from dispersion, the magnitude is as the distance between the one object and the other

    But the distance in question is susceptible of two diversifications: viz the distance in question may be the distance 1 of the several individuals from the seat of government, as above 2 of two or more of the individuals in question from one another.

    1. Of Evils, springing from the proportioned to distance of the individual in question from the seat of government examples are the following

    1. Insecurity against damage to person and property from the hostility of the uncivilized aborigines

    2. Insecurity against the like from disorderly Settlers

    3. Distance from the only place at which material of subsistence and materials of instruments necessary to production and communication say conveyance can be obtained; obtained, - whether by purchase, hire, or borrowing

    4. Distance at the only place in which means of reparation for instruments of all sorts can be obtained:- as above

    5. Distance from the only place at which value for surplus produce in any shape can be obtained

    6. Distance from the only place, at which intelligence of good or evil, present, past, or future probable, from any source, can be obtained.