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and trustee to be selected for the purpose, to become the legal proprietor, by purchase of the lands, together with all farming implements, and stock, necessary for their present husbandry;
2nd The agent and trustee clothed with all necessary powers, to obtain the control of the subscriptions already made, of bounty Money, and encourage and promote a continuance of the same, until the accumulation, if possible, of a fund sufficient for a reimbursement to the government of its outlay for the purchase and settlement;
3rd Establish at Kingston some other central point of purchase, a Bureau, having at its head an efficient agent of the government, associated with a skillful and experienced planter for a plantation management, this bureau, to have among other powers and duties, that of receiving and keeping an account of all subscriptions by the colonists from bounty money, or other resources, and of making and superintending all contracts for hire and services, and the purchase of separate interests, and shares in the land, to render each colonists such assistance, pecuniary or otherwise, as may be necessary and reasonable, for the accomplishment of the objects in view, and to keep with each an account of all contributions in Money and labor by one, and advances by the other party, with such regulations and changes as to labor, wages, interest &c, as may be deemed just and expedient; and with power to locate the several colonists and their families, consulting so far as compatible with the common welfare, individual predilections:-
4th Until the ulterior objects of the trust are accomplished, and a reimbursement to the Government of its outlay, to require the lands, under the direction of the Manager, to be laid off, and cultivated in such parcels, as shall be deemed necessary and convenient to the greatest aggregate product of cotton, and other commercial fruits, with