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pense of surveying and sale, your memorialist is aware that even the un¬ 
conditional gift of a section of 640 acres of slandered soil to every settler, 
will be insuliicient alone to attract emigrants while Texas conthiues to be¬ 
stow a league of 4,428 acres of eulogized soil to every family, and while 
Government continues to recommend the gratuitous distributio'n of more 
inviting lands ; yet, he nevertheless continues firmly persuaded that the 
facts and arguments connected with its favorable climate which he can 
ofier with the legal divisions of the legal grant, will induce an adequate 
number of individuals to engage with him in the propagation of tropical 
vegetables in even the natural swamps and sands of tropical Florida ; and 
that he attaches still greater importance to the law itself than to the land 
it may ensure, as by indicating a favorable opinion of his services and sug¬ 
gestions, it may have a recommendatory value to attract also a sufficient 
amount of capital to accelerate and extend this highly important enter- 
• prise. 
6. That an act of Congress ‘‘ to promote the introduction and extend the 
culture of the vine,’’ a single extra-tropical plant, did convey to J. J. Du- 
four and his associates a certain-tract of exceedingly fertile soil in an ex¬ 
tremely valuable situation, by which said foreign grantees were greatly 
benefited, although the experiment did fail: that your memorialist, how ¬ 
ever, solely solicits an equivalent act “to encourage the introduction and 
cultivation of all valuable tropical plants,” which may convey to himself 
and associates an equivalent quantity of absolutely steril soil, in an abso¬ 
lutely worthless situation, by which the native grantees will be entirely 
ruined if their experiment should fail: and that, as he will even be content 
with a mere pre-emption right to spend their labor, health, and wealth 
in experimenting the existence of a tropical climate^ and, therefore, 
ductive atmosphere, however unproductive may be the barely occupable 
earth of southern Florida, he most respectfully trusts that neither consti¬ 
tutional scruples, corporate insensibility, norpolitical hostility, may impede 
^ the concession of a merje right of location by the present Congress, howev¬ 
er late in the actual short session this humble memorial may arrive at 
Washington. 
7. That if, indeed. Southern Florida be so worthless a territory as it is 
generally supposed to be, both by the Goverment and the people of the 
United States, the absolute gift of all its swamps and sands to native citi¬ 
zens, cannot be of any pecuniary loss to the nation ; and that, if any native 
settlers can find or cause any part thereof to be of any pecuniary value to 
themselves, they should receive it for their discovery or labor alone : but 
that your memorialist does not solicit the title to any tract as either an ab¬ 
solute. or a conditional gift ; and that he will even be content to obtain the 
safety of location by positive purchase at the Government price for much 
better land-s, payable whenever the adjacent territory shall be surveyed 
and sold ; as he is persuaded that, if the domestication of tropical plants 
shall be successful, he and his associates then will be able to pay for their 
respective sections j and that, if the experiment shall be unsuccessful. Gov¬ 
ernment will be unable to sell those unproductive lands. 
8. That if Congress should merely afford that indirect encouragement 
to the propagation of tropical plants which would result from the imme¬ 
diate survey and sale of southern Florida, and from the immediate resto¬ 
ration of revenue duties on all tropical products, this supplementary me¬ 
morial would not molest your honorable assembly with the very humble 
