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1822 Oct. 24 Tripoli Persuasive
1822 Oct. 24

Tripoli

Persuasive to Pasha

3. If /Supposing/ a Representative body were established, Tripoli would exhibit the first example of a Mahometan country in which undertakings, for private or public benefit, requiring the permanent employment of capital to a considerable amount will have been set on foot. Example

1. Manufactories of articles suitable to the local wants and means of supply.

2. Means of communication - such as roads, canals, bridges improvements in the facilities for communication afforded by rivers: source of profit, money in the shape of tolls.

3. Reservoirs for the preservation of a supply of water in extraordinarily dry seasons: for example by wells dug in apt places, and water raised from them by horse power or a steam engine

4. Embankment of rivers in their course for the purpose of irrigation, or for giving motion to mills

5. Erection of a prison on the Panopticon plan for deriving profit from the labour of prisoners.

6. Digging of mines: extraction of useful mineral substances of various kinds from the bowels of the earth, when by the use of boring machines, directed by Geological observations their existence has been discovered. To conduct it with advantange an enterprize of this sort commonly requires large advances in the shape of capital

But to this end all claim to the absolute ownership of mines on the part of the Sovereign in grounds belonging to individuals must be solemnly given up. By such surrender he might profit to an indefinite amount, and would not lose any thing. For the effect of such claim is neither more nor less than of an interdiction prohibiting the working of any such mine. It would remain for consideration whether any profit could be derived to the Sovereign from a tax upon the produce of such mines.
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