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South, and East and West, and should commence or start from 

 the sea-side ; all divisions to be rectangular. 



I cannot see any serious objections to the plan I here suggest; 

 even that of expense, I must say, does not strike me as insur- 

 mountable. In fact, I consider that the Government is bound 

 to lay out and fix the limits of new wards, as the sale of crown 

 lands progresses. Outline maps of the county might be pre- 

 pared ; there cannot be any difficulty in this. Now, on these 

 maps the wards might be provisionally marked out. Wards and 

 sections once laid out, subsequent surveys will become much 

 easier ; also the sub-divisions of the sections and the disposal of 

 the crown lands. The sub-intendant or commissioners and 

 principal surveyor will be able, on looking to the county maps, 

 to know exactly the position of the land petitioned for. As an 

 essay, the plan which I suggest might be experimented in the 

 counties of Caroni and St. George, where large tracts have 

 already been granted. As a matter of detail, I would propose 

 that the wards be named after the rivers running through, or the 

 mountains standing within, their limits. 



The question naturally suggests itself whether it would not be 

 wise and prudent to reserve, in certain wards, a few sections 

 which afterwards might be bought entire to form sugar estates 

 or central usines. 



I grant that prospects, in this peculiar branch of agriculture, 

 are not very encouraging ; and yet who can positively say that 

 the cultivation of the sugar-cane will be ultimately abandoned 

 and cease altogether in these parts ? 



There are certain measures, the adoption of which I consider 

 not only as beneficial but as absolutely essential, either as 

 preventive enactments, or with a view to the correction of 

 certain existing evils ; amongst others, a stringent vagrant act 

 and provisions for its enforcement. The order in council of 

 September, 1838, may be said to be a dead letter : it should be 

 revived and rigidly enforced. 



In civilized societies all men are bound to contribute their 

 quota to the necessities of the state, in order to enable the 

 Government to afford that protection which civil and social 

 institutions demand ; the man of capital, his resources ; the man 

 of art, his skill ; the owner of the soil, his produce ; the tiller of 

 the ground, his labour. In addition, all are bound so to emplc 



