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to population, muft depend on wife laws and fit regulations, calculated 

 for the prote£lion of property, the encouragement of induftry, the abo- 

 lition of tyranny, the difcountenancing of felfifli monopolies, and the 

 confervation of health. Thefe demand afliftance, from a legiflature in- 

 fluenced by public fpirit, a liberal judgement, and perfed knowledge of 

 their country's beft intereft. Such a legiflature need not to be inform- 

 ed, that the advantages of a thorough population and fettlement are 

 of fuch vaft importance to this ifland, as to be well worth their pur- 

 chafe, by every fuitable provifion and encouragement in their power to 

 frame or bellow. Convinced of this truth, the means are obvious. 



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