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app. no. 2.] African Memoranda. 427 trade, every merchant or person so trading, hereby subjects and binds him- trade, on self to pay into the public treasury of the colony, a duty of seven and cent ’ S ^ a half per cent, upon such investment, for the term of one year only, from the first settlement of the colony, the amount of the same to be / ascertained by the invoice: and we hereby further consent and agree, for impostonex- the above purpose of defraying the expences of the government, to sub- p ”^ s ’ ° per ject ourselves to an impost or duty not exceeding five per cent, on the value of all exported produce. And we hereby further covenant and Appropriati- agree, that the fund accumulated by traffic, if any there shall be, pub " by the payment of private debts to the community, shall be appropriated only to the purposes herein before specified. Abt. XI. To enablq the colonists to cultivate their lands, we agree Labourers to that the labourers, every one we employ, shall be paid from the public ^/public* °* store, by his employer giving him a ticket, specifying the time employed, store = or the quantity of service performed, which ticket the agent or store keeper shall pay at. sight, at a rate to be hereafter fixed by the governor rate to be j -i i , , . . • , r . fixed by the and council, filing the same, and charging the value, including freight governor and and charges, to the settler’s private account. council. Art. XII. There shall be an agent or storekeeper appointed, to whose Agent or care the public investment shall be committed, and who shall keep a re- storekee P er - gular account of receipts and disbursements, and shall post his books monthly, and submit the same to the inspection of the council. Art. XIII. There shall be a treasurer appointed, who shall also act as Treasurerand a collector of duties and taxes, and who shall at the same time submit his co ector - books to the inspection of the council. Art. XIV. All goods furnished from the public store to individuals Goods fur- . • i • in nished from (expect armsand implements, which are to be gratuitously given) shall t h e pu t>Jic be paid for either in money or produce, within eighteen months from the c ^ l ’° first establishment of the colony. Art. XV. No public debt shall be contracted on any account, nor shall ^P ublic any arrears to public officers, for public works or establishments, be allowed to exceed the sum actually in the common fund; and commerdlal ^"rcia? con joint concerns shall cease and determine in eighteen months from thecem, when , to cease, first establishment of the colony. Art. XVI. To prevent the undue influence of Property, we engage that Regulation 3 I 2