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than probable that further assistance will be required by some 2 
the Colonies, and we do not propose that such assistance, if give 
should be unconditional. St. Vin ne a n St. Kitt en 
Dominica, Montserrat, Barbados, Briti n Gunn and, etn As 
St. Lucia and Trinidad, may all cttm assistance for one or more 
of the following purposes:—To enable them to avoid bankruptcy, 
or to relieve distress, or to deal with the East Indian immigrants, 
or to make roads, or e settle the labouring population on the land, 
or to promote emigration. If a Colony should require assistance 
of this nature it ahonid be made a condition of any grant by the 
granted, the Colonial Government shall consent to such modifica- 
tions of its political constitution as Your Majesty’s Government 
may consider to be necessary in order to ensure economy and 
efficient pore 
ea We shall not attempt to make a complete estimate of the 
unt ot d ssistance which these Colonies may require as it 
dutioiids aftogettior on the extent to which an sugar industry fails, 
the rapidity with which it fails, and the rate of progress in sub- 
stituting other industries. It is, however, yer that a consider- 
able amount of PUR will be uum red in any case, and of this 
nants we are able to make an est cist 
3. The Islands a St. Lucia, St. on Montserrat, Antigua, 
and St. Kitts-Nevis have floating debts which represent accumu- 
lated deficits, the money having been raised on short-term 
debentures. The most economical course will be to clear these 
debts off at once, by a grant from the -— poda and we 
think that ilar assistance duld be given to Tobago. These 
islands at present pay interest at the rate of 4 per ce itt on their 
floating debt, and it will be cheaper to pay off the debt for them 
than to supply them with money to pay interest charged, and 
repay instalments of the principal. The amount of the grant 
required ma be taken at 60,0007. 
544. In Lucia, St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts- deos 
Dominica, ad Montserrat the revenue does not equal the 
expenditure at present, and we think it likely that grants 
amounting in the aggregate to 20,0007. a year may be required for 
some time. 
545. The Government of St. Mass, will sos re a grant to 
enable it to take possession of some of the existing sugar estates 
ra to allot them to negro layat, and Dominica should 
ceive a grant to enable is to open up communication with some 
riser Me ot the most fertile and most accessible lands which 
are at preseut oriista : rsd further extension of roads in, 
Dominica, which are much needed, should be carried out 
g rradually, as the resources of the Island ZH permit. The spec 
grants to St. Vincent and Dominica may amount to 30,0007. Both 
St. Vincent and Dominica may require Am mem some expenditure 
to enable them to start banana cultivation, though we are not 
without hopes that this may be done by unassisted mu 
enterprise when it is known that steamers will be ready to carry 
the fruit to New York. 
