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have the direction of all appointments, civil, military, and 

 ecclesiastical, for which they are accountable to the governor. 

 Justice is administered by ordinary judges, who lay all cases 

 of great importance before the Ouvidor of Mozambique, to- 

 whom they are responsible for the receipts from the sale of 

 the effects of absentees and deceased persons. The chambers 

 have no funds even for their ordinary expenses ; courts are, 

 therefore, held at the different residences of the judges at 

 Senna, Tette, and Quillimane. This may be accounted for 

 because there are no unappropriated lands which can be let 

 out, in these towns and districts, all belonging to the Crown ; 

 from which results an inconvenience which is another ob- 

 stacle to the increase of towns and families, who- own no 

 places where they can build houses, nor can they cultivate 

 any land as their own. 



To the members of the royal factory in these three towns 

 and their districts, belong all that relates to the interest of 

 the royal company. They levy all the duties due to -the 

 company, and sequestrate the goods of its debtors. They 

 decide all disputes relative to the limits of the lands, and 

 arbitrate the fines and tenths which are to be paid, managing 

 entirely this fund on account of the junta of the royal factory 

 at Mozambique. 



Conclusion. 

 Particular Statistics of the Government of the Rios de Senna. 

 All the projects which have been proposed in this memoir, 

 have two ends in view, equally intended to augment the 

 prosperity of the country and the good of the state. First 

 to impress on the minds of the inhabitants, that their labour 

 and industry ought to be directed to the important commerce 

 derived from agricultural pursuits, in preference to that with 

 the interior ; and secondly, to demonstrate clearly and prac-„ 

 tically this weighty truth, removing by the evidence of 

 incontestible facts, all those objections usually advanced 

 against undertakings which require energy and industry, by 

 ignorant, idle, and prejudiced persons. In a colony so 

 extensive, so fertile, and well calculated for various and most 

 valuable productions ; divided by navigable rivers through all 

 its principal points, situated in the very centre of Africa, 

 where slaves may be easily and cheaply procured, having 

 communication with the. sea at Qufllimane (by a long river 

 like the Zambezi,) within a month's sail from the Asiatic 

 ports, which would return many commodities that find a 

 market in Europe., thus creating a great and advantageous 

 balance of trade in favour of the metropolis ; if, therefore, in 

 such a colony, the commerce of its agricultural productions 

 (which always keep pace with the industry and application of 



