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.
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  • Title: [1831 Aug. 11 Colonization Society]
    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. 11 Colonization Society]
    Description: 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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    Description: 1831 Aug. 9

    Colonization Society

    ChIV. Means of Effectuation Inducements to §.3. Settlers with Capital

    In this character no individuals in particular, are (it seems) as yet in

    contemplation. But from long and repeated experience, an assurance has been

    formed that a number greater rather than a number less than what would be useful

    and is desirable, would be likely to repair to the spot fixt upon.