That the tax labour muft commence immediately on landing, and the indents for it must be previously lodged in the Bank, in order to furnish cash for the fettlement, and if the neceffary public work, in clearing and fecuring the firft encampments, fowing and planting a fufficient quantity of grain and roots to renew the common stock of provifions, also in laying out the lots, &c. &c. cannot be performed within the first month after landing, (the whole body of people daily exerting themselves therein) they fhall then give indents for two months further tax, and at the end of another month, ftill more tax-indents, if further time. Thould then be neceffary,-before any private interest in the land may be attended to, because the common benefit and general fecurity, muft be the first objects.

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That if any perfon is remifs in working for the public benefit, he shall be duly fined on conviction before a jury, according to the proportion of his offence, to a certain number of days labour, to be worked out as foon as the private labour of the fettlement commences, and the adjudged fines fhall be entered upon the public books, immediately after conviction and judgement.

It is also propofed, as a means of raifing ready money for the ufe of the fettlement, and of forming a company of proprietors in England by proportional fares of credit, to carry on a legal trade with the fettlement, and yet so as not to interfere in the least with the internal polity, government and freedom of the actual fettlers; that if any perfon in England fhall be willing to advance money to a number of settlers (if people of colour

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not above 31. each, to the value of 30 days work each) fo as to obtain indents to the full amount, in all, of 310 days work, eftimated at 2s. per day, amount. ing to 311. he fhall (upon delivering the faid indents duly figned to that amount, into the charge of the town clerk of the first hundred, or principal bank) be allowed an equal lot of land with the rest of the fettlers, to be duly registered in the principal fettlement, and to be cleared and cultivated by the faid labour of 310 days work, (after deducting 62 days for publick taxes, and 12 days as an absentee from watch and ward, in all, 74 days tax for every 310 days expressed in the indents) as far as the fame can be profitably bestowed upon the lot, within the space of two years ftom the date, under the direction of the officers of the principal Bank, who fhall keep an exact account of the value of the produce on the fale or difpofal of it; and from the

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whole amount thereof they fhall deduct, for the benefit of the public revenue, 12 per cent by way of commiffion, for the care and direction of the officers of the respective Banks, in fuperintending the clearing, cultivating, fowing or planting, and reaping or gathering of the produce of the appointed lot; which befides fuch ample allowance to the settlement, will yield a profit to the lender of the money, after the principal fum of 311. is also deducted by the public Bank from the remaining balance of produce (in order to continue the inveftiture of the lot or share to the fame proprietor) will yield, I fay, a profit or intereft at the rate of above 100l. per cent. on the principal fum advanced, in the space of two years at furtheft, the common interest for that time being previously laid on as a part of the money advanced, for which the indents are proposed to be given.

Whofoever,

Whofoever, therefore, will advance the fum of 281. to any poor laborious man (who cannot find work for subsistance in his own country) to enable him to pay his paffage with the new fettlers, and to enable him to carry out four months provifions like the reft, with fome neceffary tools, feeds, plants, arms, &c. and fhall add to the account as a part of the debt, 21. 16s. for the interest of two years, and 4s. for the expence of drawing the indent, ftamps, &c. amounting in all to 311. for 310 days labour, at eight hours each, to be worked out, one third in the first year, and the remainder within the second year, the labourer will, by the proposed constitution of the fettlement, gain a lot of free land gratis, with the other firft fettlers, and will have a fufficient time to clear and cultivate a part of his own lot, to fubfift himself with provisions and, on the other hand, Q 2

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