vi Contents. 



Chapter III.— Schemes for Employing Emigrant Labor in the 

 Production of Stores. 



Colonel Hunter's plan to transport German Palatines to 



New York 44 



History of the settlement 50 



Reasons for its failure 51 



Dunbar's settlement in Sagadahock 53 



Dunbar's quarrel with Governor Belcher and the failure of 



his plan to produce naval stores 55 



PART II. 



THE METHODS ADOPTED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO 

 ENCOURAGE THE PRODUCTION OF NAVAL STORES. 



Chapter L— The Encouragement Offered to Importers in 

 the Form of Bounties and Exemption from Duties. 



The Importance of the naval stores question at the begin- 

 ning of the eighteenth century 56 



The Swedish monopoly 59 



The possibility of supplying the navy from America discussed. 63 



The Naval Stores Act of 1705 65 



Effects of the Act -. . . 68 



The merchants complain that the premium is not paid 70 



The encouragement of timber 72 



Report of the amounts of stores purchased for the navy and 



of premiums paid 74 



The removal of duties on naval stores 77 



The encouragement of hemp culture 78 



The new rules for pitch and tar 79 



The effects of American production on Swedish and Russian 



prices 80 



The advisability of renewing the Bounty Act discussed 82 



Failure of the hemp culture 85 



Results of bounty legislation 86 



Chapter II. — The Preservation of the Woods. 



The office of surveyor 89 



Mr. Bridger is made surveyor in 1706 90 



The history of his struggle to preserve the woods 94 



Bridger is superseded by Burniston, 1718 97 



Neglect by the government 99 



The character of the surveyor's office 100 



