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1831 Aug. 13 Colonization Society
1831 Aug. 13

Colonization Society

Ch.V. Constitution House and Colonial

§.1. Difficulty suggested

So much as to what it is to be wished should have place. So much as to what

ought to have place. But now, as to what will have place

Whatsoever be the capital proposed by the Shareholders to be advanced by these

same Shareholders has (suppose) been advanced. But the repayment of the sum

advanced with interest for the time during which it has been advanced - this

repayment or the continuance of the interest upon it until the repayment as

above shall have been compleated - whence is it to come?

Aye there's the rub: and this same rub - it concerns all intended Shareholders

to be prepared for - not to say against

Sources of profit as above, two: 1. sale of the lands - in each year, sale of as

large a quantity of the as yet unsold land as at a price not below the minimum

pitched upon can, within the compass of that same year can be sold. 2 Net profit

on the produce of the quantity of land kept in the hands of the Company: under

the management of the functionaries of the several descriptions maintained and

paid by the Company in the Colony: the Company being in this way one great

Absentee.
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    §.1. Difficulty suggested.

    A Motion to this effect being made, what should hinder Honorable Assembly from

    adopting it and passing it into a law? and mutatis mutandis the same supposition

    may serve for the other source of profit above alluded to - and in a word for

    all sources of profit, be they [...?] payable at the expence of the Colony in

    Australasia to the Universal Absentee in London

    From all embarrassment from this source the Colony of Liberia stands exempt: for

    to no Joint Stock Company does Liberia stand indebted for her existence.

    So, though, from a /owing to/ different causes does the United Company of

    Merchants trading to the East Indies: for those same Merchants with their 60

    millions of subjects and 40 millions of dependents have hitherto always been,

    and howsoever it may be those same subjects and dependents will always continue

    to be subjects to the British Empire.

    When to this effect, news arrives at the Colonization Society's House in London,

    what is that will be done. Fit out a fleet and army, to send to the Rebels in

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Company's and Colony's Constitution taken together

    §.1. Difficulty suggested

    §.2. Remedy proposed

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    Colonial Constitution

    §.1. What it can not be

    §.2. What it may be

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