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them to repay it, or to guard against the ping nace 
that might interfere to prevent them from paying. 
perience of the different Colonies as regards the payment of dinh 
taxes, and the payment of instalments ‘of the purchase money of 
ro wn lands as they fall due, is not encouraging. 
153. At the same time we are not prepared to say that under 
special circumstances a Colony might not be justified in nre 
agriculturists to obtain small loans at a low rate of interest to 
assist them in improving their land, but we think it should 
be left to the Governme nts immediately concerned to move in the 
matter in the first instance, and that the risk of loss should be 
borne by Tiao resoure eS, and should not be thrown on the 
Imperial Excheque 
PART II. 
CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE SEVERAL 
COLONIES 
173. We have dealt in Part I. of our Report thas the general 
condition 3 Your Majesty's West Indian B sis ons as a whole, 
the prospects of the sugar industry, the c sequences of a failure 
of that i ee and the measures to be Mdoptod in view of such 
failure 
174. In the present portion of the Report we propose to take 
up the case of each Co neds separately, to state briefly its economic 
condition and prospects, d the state of its finances ; to indicate 
any modifications whieh must be made in our general proposals 
nd Mis are of local rather than general applica 
he agricultural capabilities and wants of each Colony 
ise been dealt with by Dr. Morris in a series of separate reports 
on British Guiana and Your Majesty’s West Indian Islands, and it 
will not, therefore, be necessary for us to enter into the question 
of the resources of each possession as fully as would otherwise 
have been the case. 
ii—BRITISH GUIANA. 
176. ne ae a Georgetown, the capital of British oe 
on the the 27th of January 1897, and left aga 
on the pr Mean » the 6th of February. During five days ys of 
and in other ways endeavoured to obtain a knowledge of the 
condition of the Colony for the purposes of our Report. We 
visited and inspected two important sugar estates, d held 
conversations with many persons of much experience in the 
Colon 
177. British Guiana alone, of = egee sogar OE 
Colonies in the West Indies, is situa the and of 
America, and it is the most southerly of ^ those Gulcnieas Tt is 
