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.