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1831 Aug. 5 Colonization Proposal
1831 Aug. 5

Colonization Proposal

§.1. Special ends in

6. Giving, in that Colony, in a correspondent degree, encrease to the market for the produce of the Mother Country: thereby, in this same Mother Country, over and above prevention of substraction from, making positive addition to the existing stock of the matter of wealth.

7. Giving to those same beneficial states of things, not merely a temporary, but a permanent, not to say perpetual existence, an existence having no other termination than that which will be produced by a density of population in the Colony equal to that which at the time in question has place in the Mother Country.

8. Giving to the Stockholders, a reasonable, and it is hoped a constantly encreasing rate of interest and profit on the capital advanced by them by the purchase of their respective shares.
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    Description: 1831 Aug. 11

    Colonization Society

    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

    15

    65

    §.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
  • Title: [1831 Aug. 13 Colonization Society]
    Description: 1831 Aug. 13

    Colonization Society

    Ch.VI

    §.2. Remedy proposed.

    Insert here reasonableness of such option.

    From losses from this source, the supposed perfidious Colonies, were it not for

    an obvious and unexceptionable precaution and correspondent provision make their

    escape. Against the ships of the Mother Country they would close their ports: to

    those of other nations, they would leave open those same ports. This provision

    is - the declaring the ports of the refractory Colony in a state of blockade: or

    (to speak with the unaccustomed plainness instead of the accustomed

    figurativeness - the convenient and accustomed /usual/ resort of injustice) the

    government of the Mother Country would send vessels of war to make prize of all

    such foreign vessels

    Between the Government of the Mother Country - the functionaries by whose

    exertions the prize was made, and the injured Company, for compensation to whom

    this remedy was applied, the proceeds of the capture might be divided.

    Against injury from all foreign governments and their respective subjects, the

    Government of every country, by the acknowledgment of all stands bound to apply

    remedy, as far as lies in its power. Against the application of the remedy here

    in question, no reasonable objection could accordingly be made either by the

    subjects of the Mother Country or by the Government or subjects of any other

    State
  • Title: [1831 Aug. 10 Colonization Society]
    Description: 1831 Aug. 10

    Colonization Society

    Ch.IV Means of Effectuation

    Inducements to

    §.3. Settlers with capital

    §3. Settlers with capital in hand - their inducements

    1. To each such Settler advances limited to £500 to be made to an amount not exceeding that of which he himself has proved himself to be in possession and has actually in the shape of stock [...?] in the Colony.

    2. Assurance of the existence of a quantity of stock in the Warehouses of the Colony or the Metropole, composed of the instruments of husbandry

    3. So of all other articles regarded as necessary

    4. Of all these several articles, lists should be printed with a specification of the several quantities of each

    4. Of the outgoings and in-comings of each sort of article a regular account, open to all inspectors, should be kept in an Office for this purpose in the Colony.

    5. Against engrossing, adequate precautions should be carefully taken. In the Mother Country, enactments for this purpose are generally speaking [...?] and pernicious. Not so in a Colony, at the distance of a four months Voyage ... Buying up the whole stock of this or that article, an astute capitalist might be able to screw up the price to a most oppressive amount

    6. Moreover, by false reports, if not obviated, the requisite supply might be kept back from being sent by traders at large from the Mother Country: and by this means, in the Colony the scarcity might be kept up and encreased.