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years, be of any productive importance to Government; as the settlement 
of the tract will, from its location, be attended with numerous privations 
and expenses, which cannot be compensated by a gift of the soil; and as. 
the adjacent territory, in consequence of this very settleinent, must speed¬ 
ily acquire a value which will furnish a profitable revenue to the United 
States. 
That, to explain more fully the views and expectations of your memo¬ 
rialist, he refers to his various communications on file in the Treasury 
Department; to the annexed extract of his letter to the Secretary of the 
Treasury, published in the Globe of the 19th November last ; and to the 
adjoining extract of his letter to Doctor Howell, of Princeton, New Jer¬ 
sey, published in the-Telegraph of the 17 th ultimo; also, to the subjoined 
manuscripitestimony, (marked A,) and to the file of corroborating Spanish; 
official documents, (marked B ) 
And your memorialist, ^c. 
HfilNRY PERRINE. 
New Yojik, 6, 1832. 
TROPICAL PLANTS. 
Extract from the mesmge of the Governor of Florida, in the Floridian 
of January 2. 
“Hundreds of the vegatable productions of. tropical climates, of great 
value, and some in such common use as,to be considered articles of neces¬ 
sity, and which we now import at high cost, could be easily cultivated in 
any part of our Territory. Many, too tropical to flourish in West or Mid¬ 
dle Florida, could be. reared under the more genial climate of the southern 
part of the peninsula. The (-oiithern part of this continent, and South; 
America and China, abound iii.trees, plants, herbs, and roots, possessing 
the most valuable properties, the use of which has been confined to tfie 
places of, their production, but which could as well be produced and em 
joyed by our own citizens. I herewith transmit to the Council, and re¬ 
spectfully invite their attention to, an extract of an official letter from H.' 
Perrine, United States consul for Campeachy, to the Secretary of the 
Treasury, in relation to this subject, which has been published in the news¬ 
papers, and from which I have taken it. Other documents worthy of aU 
tention are also herewith sent to the Council It will be noticed that Mr. 
Perrine is desirous that an act of the Council should be, passed, incorpora¬ 
ting himself and his associates into a company for the cultivation of trop¬ 
ical exotics; and he proposes to establish the plantation of the company on 
the southern part of the peninsula. This enterprise should not be classed 
with the inflated visionary projects of which Florida has been so proliflc^ 
and the failure of which has created so much distrust of all novel under-, 
takings. If those w'ho embark in it should not find it a source of gain, and 
should, after trial, abandon it, the benefits resulting to the country from 
the introduction of the many valuable foreign products they will have 
brought among us must be of considerable importance, and should in^ 
duce us to render every encouragement and aid in our power to promote 
the success of the undertaking; and although Mr. Perrine has made, no 
