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restrictions from the land — let everybody who can buy 
land do so, and also lease out the land on pasture 
licences. Another thing was free emigration, because 
any one going to that district and investing capital 
required labour, and the native labour could not be 
relied upon. The history of the colony showed that the 
Berbice River was a most valuable part of the colony. 
The meeting then terminated. 
