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9. That the t'rarners of the final report be requested to provide some 

 suggestions for encouraging settlers of the small capitalist and land- 

 owner type. 



10. That inasmuch as the development for colonisation purposes of 

 the interior of this colony, both forest and savannah, cannot be satisfac- 

 torily carried out without a railway, and that such a railway should form 

 in the nature of things a northern section of a trunk line extending via 

 Manaos through the Brazils to Buenos Ayres, His Excellency the Gov- 

 ernor and the Secretary of State for the Colonies be approached with a 

 view to resuming the consideration of this question where it was left by 

 the report of the Railway Committee in May, 1914, and by the despatch of 

 the Secretary of State — now Viscount Harcourt — which arrived after the 

 presentation of that report, and with a view to the opening of negotia- 

 tions with our present Ally, the Federal Republic of Brazil, for the pur- 

 poses of the necessary co-operation and local Customs treaty. 



To this the Report Council proposes to add the following ao being 

 also the feeling of the Proposals and Finance Sub-Committee : 



11. That the dredging, buoying and lighting and other improve- 

 ments necessary for making Georgetown and New Amsterdam suitable 

 emporia for extended colonial trade be at once proceeded with. 



12. That in view of the recommendations of the Demerara Railway 

 Committee of 28th November, 1918, and the pending negotiations for 

 the Government purchase or control of the Railway Company the exten- 

 sion of the West Coast Railway to the neighbourhood of Bartica sho.ild be 

 favourably considered. 



13. That the Government be respectfully requested to take special 

 steps to ascertain the possibilities of establishing a Guiana-West Indian 

 Inter-Colonial Steamer Service. 



