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.