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greater. When therefore, so very advantageous a mode of laying out 

 money, as either of the schemes herein proposed is at the same time pro- 

 ductive of the incalculable benefit to the trade of this Port, which may be 

 confidently expected from the execution of them, I cannot but entertain 

 sanguine hopes of finding the Public, ready to stand forward in the support 

 of whichever of the plans may meet with the sanction of Government, and 

 the general preference of the commercial part of this settlement. 



On this account therefore, I submit it to your Lordship's consideration, 

 to propose to the Public at large, the plans which I have the honor to lay 

 before your Lordship, that whichever of them shall be thought most 

 conducive to the general utility may be determined on, and that to in- 

 duce the Public to enter into a subscription, to raise the necessary fund 

 for carrying the work into immediate execution, Government shall sanc- 

 tion to the subscribers the right of laying the following imposts; viz. 

 upon all exports and imports without exception, a duty of one percent, 

 and upon all vessels that anchor in the roads, beyond the extent of the 

 Pier or embankments, a duty of tonnage not exceeding ten Pagodas per 

 one hundred tons burthen, ]*and for such as either come along side the 

 Pier, or anchor within the embankments, a tonnage of twenty Pagodas per 

 one hundred tons, and that these duties shall be vested in the subscribers 

 either for a limited, certain, or for an indefinite period, reserving to the 

 Company the right of resumption of those duties to themselves, upon re- 

 imbursing the subscribers with an advance of a certain premium on their 

 shares, optional with the Company as may be agreed upon. 



The advantages likely to result to the Honorable Company by either 

 of these schemes, are very great, but particularly from the latter, not 

 only the trade of the Port would be very considerably increased 

 by the great facility afforded to it, but additional value would be 

 given to all the waste ground in the Black town, which would by this 

 plan come into general demand, also the,/ great security afforded to the 

 Black town from having a ditch of 60 feet broad and 9 deep, which by 

 aid of the sluices the water may be kept up to, would considerably im- 

 prove the value of all the property there, and to this the opportunity 

 afforded of always keeping it clean, and thereby rendering the most 

 noisome part of^the town, sweet and healthy. 



Upon all these different accounts, it would afford me the greatest satis- 

 faction if your Lordship should think proper to recommend the consider- 

 ation of these plans, not only to the Public in general, but to the different 



