4Q2 TiMEHRI. 



The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Co. of Texas, 



Sealy Texas, U.S.A., July 25th, 1894. 

 Secretary Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, 

 Demerara, British Guiana. 



Dear Sir, — There is a desire amongst the people back here to leave 

 the U.S. and hunt a country where there is a better chance for enter- 

 prise ; all the natural resources of this country having passed into the 

 hands of millionaires. We have a movement on foot to establish a 

 colony of Americans in British Guiana or Venezuela, and will probably 

 be able to take out 5,000 families in the first 2 years after getting a 

 location. Will expeft to engage in agriculture and manufafturing and 

 possibly mining. We must have as an essential inducement to 

 emigration a large traft of land in one body so our people can remain 

 together and congenial society be assured. 



It will require about all our ready capital to get there and get to 

 work supplying our wants and if we cannot get land as a donation, 

 would have to have it on easy terms. Would want several hundred 

 thousand acres so as to get a variety of natural resources. 



Will you please tell me, pending my trip out there in Sept. or 0&.., 

 what I could hope to accomplish in such an undertaking, your laws, 

 conditions, &c. 



Am particularly anxious to learn your laws governing corporations or 



organizations to hold property jointly and co-operatively. 



Oblige yours, &c. 



R. M. MAER. 



The President said that such a settlement as proposed 

 by Mr. Maer would undoubtedly be of benefit to the 

 colony, and he hoped that when I\Ir. Maer arrived he 

 would be able to see his way to establish it. 



Dr. Ford's paper on "What the Banana Trade has 

 done for Jamaica" having been declared open to dis- 

 cussion, no response was made, and the President re- 

 marked that he hoped the trade might do something for 

 British Guiana in the near future. 



Mr. H. Von Ziegezar's paper on diffusion being 

 declared open to discussion, 



Mr. Llewellyn Jones spoke of the small number of 



