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app. no. 1.] African Memoranda. 421 * # * The Committee meets every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, for the dispatch of business, at seven o’clock in the evening, No. 103, Hatton-garden, Holborn. Signed by order of the Committee, H. H. DALRYMPLE. Nov. 9, 179L No. 103, Hatton-Garden. No. 2. Memorandum of Agreement, and Constitution of Government, for a Colony about to be established on or near the Island of Bulam, in Africa, as engrossed and signed on the ninth day of March, 1792. MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this ninth day of Preamble. March, in the thirty-third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith; and in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-two, between us the subscribers about to settle a colony on the island of Bulam, or on some other part on the coast of Africa, on the one part; and the settlers or purchasers of lands in the said colony, on the other part; that is to say, that we having for certain considerations granted to persons remaining in England, allotments of land in our said colony, who thereby become purchasers of the same from us, do hereby covenant, promise and agree to and with each other, and bind and oblige ourselves to the performance of all the covenants hereinafter contained. And we hereby further agree, that we, by our governor and council, viz. Henry Hew Dalrymple, Governor Esquire, Governor; John Young, Esquire, Lieutenant-governor; Sir andcouncil William Halton, Baronet, John King, Philip Beaver, Peter Clutterbuck, Clotworthy Upton, Francis Brodie, Charles Drake, John Paiba, Richard Hancorne, Robert Dobbin, and Isaac Ximenes, Esquires, Members of