1831 Aug. 10

Colonization Society

Note

1. Is it not proposed that the whole tract of land, of which the territory of the

Colony is to be composed, should in the first instance be granted by the English

Government to the proposed Company: subject or not subject in certain cases, to

forfeiture

2. Is it not proposed that to the Company should belong the whole produce of the

Sales from time to time made, of so many portions of the land? If yes: then so

it is that for the purpose of these Sales the Company must have a functionary

constantly resident in the spot - call him the Grantor-General.

At the outset, expence per head of the Settlers exported at the Companys expence

1. Freight £20

2. Rations for one year's subsistence

3. Cloathing

4 Houshold furniture

N.B. The settlers going out in couples, hence the correspondent reduction in the

expence of Houshold furniture
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  • Title: [1831 Aug 10 Colonization Society]
    Description: 1831 Aug 10

    Colonization Society

    ChIV Means of Effectuation Inducements to §.2. Settlers without capital

    II. Settlers without capital - their inducements

    1. During the Voyage - (average length of it about 4 months) board good in

    quality, and ample in quantity with lodging for the several couples, in a manner

    as decent and comfortable, in respect of bedding during the night, and means of

    exercise and recreation in the day time, as the nature of the situation will

    admit.

    2. At landing, during the first year, in return for such labour as shall be

    required at their hands, by the Companys Managers in the Colony, provisions in

    the shape of rations - as the phrase is in the case of soldiers. In food and

    drink, what will the rations consist of?

    3. In addition to these rations, payment in money at the rate of / / per day.

    4. As to Cloathing. What, if any, will be allowed to them by the Company, and on

    what terms?

    5. So as to Houshold furniture. What storage room will be allowed to each couple

    for such as they have? What will be allowed in respect of each necessary

    article, to such as have it not? - and on what terms?

    Note

    a In the way of drink, can there be any need or use of any thing better than

    sweet water? For bread they will have Sea-biscuit of course.
  • Title: [1831 Aug. 11 Colonization Society]
    Description: 1831 Aug. 11

    Colonization Society Ch.IV Means of effectuation Inducements to §.1.

    Shareholders and contributors.

    Compte Simulé

    I. Expenditure

    Compte Simulé Propose to Mr [...?] the filling it up?

    To the purpose of giving any tolerably correct view of the inducements belonging

    to this head, an indispensable operation or say task will be the giving what in

    French Accountant language is called a Compte simulé - in English

    To form any such document lies not within the power nor in the stock of

    information possessed by the author of this page. All it /that/ is in his power

    - for help to conception is the presenting to view a few items by way of

    examples.

    I. Outlay or say Expenditure

    1. Freight from London or some other English Port to the place of Settlement in

    Australasia at £20 per head making £40 per couple - for couples { } £ s d

    2. Journey for do to the place of embarkation

    3. Subsistence of do (in the shape of food, in rations) from the day of landing

    to that day twelvemonth

    N.B. Expenditure on the article of drink is here regarded as [...?]: no where

    will any landing be made in which there is not good water: all fermented liquor

    may be regarded as a needless, and dangerous incumbrance.

    4. Bedding for do at { } per couple......

    5. Other houshold furniture: at { } per couple ..

    6. Cloathing, if any allowed. If any it may perhaps be necessary or convenient to

    serve it out to them before embarkation

    7. Medicines

    8. Implements of husbandry

    9. Implements of trade. N.B. If, for their respective profit-seeking occupations

    any of them have those employed in building, such as those of Carpenter,

    Bricklayer, Smith, &c their respective tools &c will be to be carried

    with them: and what they have not of their own, they must be supplied with by

    the Company.
  • 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