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the otliers were apprenticed out, for terms of seven years, to the inhabitants.""* 

 Both of these methods of employing them were afterwards followed. As other 

 cargoes were brought to Nassau, settlements were formed in places where the 

 negroes could be under the care of the Governor. At Headquarters (the site 

 of the present Grants Town), near the city of Nassau, at Carmichael, a few 

 miles away, and at Adelaide, on the southwestern coast of New Providence 

 Island, were founded the principal settlements of these new inhabitants of the 

 Colony."" In these various places the Africans built their cabins and took up 

 residences. The Executive gave them every attention. For those at Car- 

 michael Governor Smyth advanced money from his private purse for their 

 benefit, and labored in every way to minister to them and to relieve their hard- 

 ships."^ The legislature refused to aid the Governor in his enterprise. There 

 was a jealousy of his activities *in this direction, and he was looked on as a sort 

 of " niggers' man." "^ The Bishop of Jamaica provided a small sum to aid in 

 educating them,"^ and further sums were provided by the home government."* 

 Their material needs were cared for, rations were served to them from the 

 commissariat,"' and, what was considered by the Governor as most important, 

 means were provided by which moral and religious education was to be 

 placed within their reach."" They were set to work on public improvements for 

 the general good, on roads and wells at Carmichael, and on the construction of 

 a salt pond at Adelaide."' Superintendents were placed in these settlements to 

 act under the direction of the government in carrying out measures calculated 

 to benefit the negroes. From the first it was the opinion of the Executive that 

 they would be able to cope with their circumstances, and to maintain themselves. 



='°° Balfour to Stanley, No. 26. 



"^° Smyth's Ds., No. 183. Governor Smyth stated that in September, 1832, there 

 were 514 of these negroes at Carmichael, 134 at Adelaide, and 370 at Highburn 

 Cay. The service of the army medical staff was extended to these negroes in 1830 

 by a circular despatch from London. See Ds., No. 197, on the number condemned. 



"•Smyth's Ds., No. 137. 



"""^Loc. cit., Ds., Nos. 72 and 137. 



'''' Loc. cit., No. 31. 



"^ Ds., S. St., 1831, No. 13. In his Ds., No. 72, Governor Smyth had asked the 

 Lords of the Treasury for £650 for this purpose. The Lords acceded to this 

 proposal. 



"= Balfour to Stanley, No. 16. 



=" Smyth's Ds., No. 72. 



'" Balfour to Stanley, No. 26. Lieutenant-Governor Balfour feared that it was 

 likely that the salt pond would not benefit them greatly, after the oversight of a 

 white man was withdrawn. 



