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424 . African Memoranda. [jpp. no. 2. Purposes of ma y hereafter go out to the said colony. And it is hereby further agreed, lion 1 re8erva ' that every person entitled to possess one hundred and twenty-five acres and upwards, having contributed towards defraying the original expences of the settlement, shall have the right or privilege to demand and obtain a grant of thirty acres for a settler, on the reserved quantity of land, in the proportion of thirty acres to each individual, for every hundred acres so subscribed for by him. It is likewise hereby covenanted and agreed, that every purchaser of a grant shall have a right to demand and obtain a grant of thirty acres of land to each individual for every settler that he may send out, such number of settlers not exceeding one for every hundred acres so purchased by him: provided always that no expence Surplus of from such measure be incurred by the colony. And it is further hereby co- hnd to* be In venante 4 and agreed, that the remaining quantity of land so reserved as the disposalofabove, shall be in the disposal of the governor and council for the time and councfiT b e ’ n g’ for the benefit of the colony. And it is hereby covenanted and Right of pur-declared to be a right in every purchaser of land in the said colony, at wnd agents to commencemen ^ as we ^ as at an y future period of the undertaking, traffic or cul- to send out at his own expence, any person or persons to superintend his interests ; and every such person shall have full liberty, through his agent, to cultivate or not cultivate, traffic or not traffic, as he finds or conceives it most conducive to his interest, and shall be legally competent but not to be to do any act or thing which a settler on his own account may do, ex- draw goods° cepting only that he may not be permitted to draw goods from the public fromthepub- store for the purchase of labour. And it is hereby solemnly covenanted lie store. 1 J J No taxes to and agreed, that no power in the colony shall ever be competent to uncultivated ^ ev yhig fine or tax on the uncultivated property of absentees, or any property of tax on the cultivated property of absentees, which shall not in die ec l ua l proportion affect the property of the settlers. And we do hereby cultivated moreover covenant and agree, that if from any unforeseen event, a set- do not equal-tlement on the island of Bulam, at present intended, should be found property of' e ’ in P ract ’ ca bl e ’ or *f settlers should, after having attempted, or formed settlers. a temporary settlement, think proper to abandon it, this covenant and agreement are to be understood to extend to any other spot on or near Concerntobefhe coast of Africa, whereunto the settlers may resort; and all the uuusierred. concerrij advantages and engagements of the purchasers of lands, as well as of such settlers, to be thereto transferred. And all and every of