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ject^ a committee be named by the present 

 meetings to examine into^ and report upon^ the 

 expediency and practicability of any project^ 

 for establishing a periodical intercourse between 

 the several ports of the Pacific and Panama^ 

 which may be submitted to their consideration ; 

 or to suggest and prepare a project by which 

 this object can be best effected^ specifying at 

 the same time the estimated expenses attendant 

 upon any plans suggested by them, how it is 

 proposed that they should be defrayed^ and, as 

 nearly as can be ascertained, an average estimate 

 of the amount of correspondence which may be 

 expected to pass through this channel. 



4th. That this report be presented to another 

 General Meeting of British merchants and 

 residents to be expressly convened by His 

 Majesty^s Consul General for that purpose. 



Belford Hinton Wilson, Consul General, and 

 Chairman. 



William Hodgson. — J. Sutherland. — William 

 DufF.— WiUiam Eeid.— C. R. Pflucker.— Samuel 

 Lang. — H. Kendall.— J. Farmer. — Frederick 

 PfeifFer. — John Maclean. — Valentine Smith. — 

 J. Thomas. — Christopher Briggs. — George Par- 

 ker. — C. F. Bergmann. — George T. Sealy. — - 

 Charles Higginson. — William Maclean. — 

 Thomas Young. 



