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with British Guiana. Hence has arisen, in my opinion, the policy and 

 propriety of forming a Local Bank, an establishment through the agency of which 

 those who have money to advance and those who wish to undertake the 

 construction of those improvements to which T have alluded, or others of a 

 similar nature, may be equally accommodated. 



(5.) The foregoing are my views upon the subject : and, under the 

 influence of which I have been friendly from the first to the establishment of a 

 Guiana Bank. The more 1 reflect upon the subject the more I am convinced 

 that tin 1 advantage which this community cannot fail to derive from a local 

 bank, under judicious management and arrangement, will be incalculable. 



(6.) A wish to promote the welfare of the colony and t<> advance the 

 interests of the inhabitants generally has been the principle by which T have 

 been solely actuated in putting down my name as a subscriber to the British 

 Guiana Bank. 



Court of Policy. 



11th November, 183G. 



