the fum of 281. for each fhare of cultivation, liable to the deductions above propofed; and that fuch due proportions of the common land fhall be laid out and registered in the names of the perfons purchafing the faid shares; yet not to be registered as freehold, but only as fhares for cultivation by the public Bank, unlefs the holders of the shares fhall go in perfon to the fettlement in which cafe they shall have their choice of all the fhares registered in their own names: that each perfon, when arrived in the fettlement, may felect one fhare, the most elegible, to be registered as his freehold lot; and the other shares fhall continue to be cultivated by the public Bank, as mortgaged public land, for the benefit of the holders of the shares, whether abfent or prefent, until the principal fum advanced for each fhare, fhall be repaid or withdrawn.

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That for the better cultivation of the public lots, and alfo for the better cultivation of the lots of abfentees, and bolders of shares, by the labour expreffed in the indents paid by them into the public Bank of the fettlement, the trustees and officers of the faid Bank, for the time being, fhall cause the said lands to be previously furveyed (before the labourers are set to work) by proper judges of cultivation (and at the expence of a part of the labour) that the most advantageous mode of clearing and tillage, may be preconcerted for each lot or fhare, and the number of men neceffary to be sent out at once, with proper inftructors or foremen to advise and direct them in the work; by which means, instead of 100 days labour of one man, day by day in fucceffion, the public Bank can afford to apply the infinitely more effectual labour of 100 men in one day; for which advantage

in culture, if defired, the abfentees should make an adequate allowance to the public revenue, by a deduction of 5 per cent. (or whatever it may be deemed worth) from the neat amount of the produce. And on the other hand, all fettlers who fhall have figned indentures for labour, and fhall find it inconvenient, at first, to fulfil them within the limited time, may give additional indents to the public banks for refpite or delay, at the rate of five days for every hundred days work poftponed for one year, and a further allowance of per cent to infure their own lives, for the additional time which they gain by the delay. By this means the public revenue may be greatly increased, the indented labourers will be relieved, and will gain time and opportunity to thrive in their own lots; and the abfent proprietors may obtain a much more advantageous cultivation of their

refpective

respective registered fhares by the effectual application of a multitude of hands at one time, under proper furveyors in the fervice of the public.

That if this mode of cultivation by large bodies of men under the direction of the public Bank, fhall be found to be most efficacious, it fhall be lawful for any of the fettlers on the Spot, who can advance to the public Bank the value of one man's labour for one year, or 310 days, to have a fpot of ground of the same size as the fhares of the abfentees, to be cleared and cultivated by the public Bank, as before propofed for the holders of fhares, but fuch additional land fhall not be confidered as freehold, nor to be fold, or difpofed of or transferred, but shall be still deemed public or common land, mortgaged to yield only the due proportion of its produce to the holders

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of the shares, in the fame manner, and with the fame deductions as proposed to be allowed from the fhares of abfentees, of holder's of Shares in England. But in cafe any proprietor of shares in England fhall go over to the fettlement, he fhall be allowed to chufe from all the fhares or lots registered in his name, (as before proposed) one lot of land of an equal fize with the lots of the other fettlers, to be his freehold land as long as he shall remain in the fettlement, and which he may alfo fell or transfer, in cafe he should afterwards think proper to remove from thence.

By this means any perfon of colour, who being pre-engaged in fervice, or other employment or bufinefs in Europe, which he cannot immediately quit or give up, may be enabled, on advancing 281. to referve in his own name an original lot in the fettlement, in cafe he should hereafter

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