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Jamaica, Trinidad, and Grenada may be expected to meet 
from their own ene the whole of the expenditur 
that is likely to fall on « 
g. 'The best item orb for the state of things which we 
have shown to exist would be the abandonment of the 
bounty s nds by continental nations. "This change would, 
in all probability, enable a large portion of the sugar-cane 
eultivation to be carried on successfully, and would certainly 
reduce sp rate at which it will diminish. 
g, however, to what appears to be the policy of 
the United States of "America , tothe great ee US of the 
cost of production of beet sugar, and the fact that many 
countries appear to have singled out the Prat industry as 
one which ought to be artificially stimulated in various 
ways, it is not clear that, even if the bounties were abolished, 
another crisis of a similar character might not arise in the 
West Indies at a future day. 
h, A remedy which was strongly supported by witnesses 
interested in the West Indian sugar estates was the imposi- 
tion of gemini: duties on bounty-fed sugar when 
imported into the United Kingdom 
The majority of the prop cone have been unable to 
support this course. The Chairman is of a different 
opinion, and has stated his views separately on this point. 
. The special remedies or measures of relief which we 
unanimously recommend are— 
(1. ^ Dis settlement of the labouring pe on small 
of land as peasant proprietors 
e) The establishment of minor agricu ultural industries, 
the improvement of the system of cultivation, 
especially in the case of small proprietors. 
(3.) The improvement of the means of communication 
between the different islands. 
(4) The encouragement of a trade in fruit with New 
York, and, possibly, at a future time, with London. 
(9.) The grant of a loan from the Imperial Exchequer 
for the establishment of central factories in Barbados. 
The subject of emigration from the distressed tracts also 
requires the Luc attention of the various Governments, 
though we do not find ourselves at the present time in a 
position to make tecommenintions in detail. 
j. We estimate the cost of the special remedies recommended in 
(2) (3) and (4) of d at 27,000} a year for ten years, the ex- 
penditure to be borne by ‘the mother country. We estimate 
ips amount of the loan to Barbados for the erection of 
entral factories at e gu This measure no doubt 
mvae es the risk of los 
Grants will be fouaived in Dominica and St. Vincent 
for roads, and to enable the settlement of the labouring 
ELSE ERN on the land to be carried out, and their amount 
ı at 30,0007. A further grant of about 60,0007. 
aod ds clear off the floating debt in some of the 
smaller islands. 
