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Show (25) (2+) fo much greater, that all Sorts of Impolitions, Interef't, and Impmtunity, would have been ufed, in order to obtain them; and where thefe had not prevailed, it would flill have been impof‘ fible to fix the Proportions of the Allotments to the Abilities oi the Petitioners, which will now jufily forfeitt ah Rig/1‘ to the Lands: and on that Condition he remiv 5 them Anothe r indulcrnctis comerting part of the Purch11.1e Money into1n An 1111.1l Quit Rent the muf'c fulfcr himfelf if he exceeds the Bounds Value of which the duvets will deduct out of the Purchafe Money-, and they will thereby have fiill more of their Capital at Liberty, to anfwu the Demand upon them, for Clearing and Stocking their Lands. This Ch.11we too is levied with a Lenity p;crfefily correlponding which his hortune piefcribes to him. But their Numbers would be fmall, if none werecadmit-_ with the Delign of impoiing11-, it is not to be paid on the wholeLot :1: once, butis gradually ted who had not an immediate Command of Money, l‘uiiicient to aniwer all the Demands of valuable- the Qiit Rents beingT decla1edoy the fuch Eflates at once: The Buildings, the Ne»- lroclamation not to commence till Twelve groes, the Cattle, and other Stock which are Months after the tit1e each Acre {hall be cleaied, in confoimity to the Condition of Clearing: be afcertained to iome Degree of Accumcy by the private Interef't of every l'urchaltr, as he. requilite, will cofl: more than the Lands them~ {elves -, and to enable the Purchafer to furnilh themfelves with thefe, it is necefihry to relieve to c1eep upon it, in proportion as it becomes which I (hall prefently have occafion to ment1on. them in the Payment of the Purchafe Money; But hill to enable Men to do Right,15 not to Revenue itfelf is oflefs Confequence to the Pub- obllieethem to it.- Ihe fame Means may alfo enable them to do Wrong, and then there will be more reafon to expeét an Abuie, than a proper Application of the Opportunity Thus the lic, even at this Crihs of Difireis, than an ef- feé‘tual and fpeedy Settlement of theie impor- tant Iflands. His Majef'ty's Proclamation of the 26th of March, has therefore declared, that the Lands/hail he fold by pith/i512 flnétion, and the Purchafe-szty/ha/t he paid in dzfierent [twat]- ments, Ywenty per Cent. immediately at the time Indulgences lhewn to Purchaiers With a View to aflilt themin improving their Lands, might be perverted to a quite contrary Efieét, it nourther Precautions weie taken;f01 the .‘Wmey of Sale, Ten per Cent. within one 2852? nftci1eand: theieby left in their I:sIand5, might be "2nd Ten per Cent. within the fecond Year, and Twenty would be frequently employr-d on‘y in en: 1rg- per Cent. within every fztrrqflhje Tear, until the whole it paid, But fuch an Indulgence would ing their Purchafes. be VVeaknefs, if COmpliance with the Terms upon which 1t1s granted, were not rigoroullv enforced; he whois guilty of a Bieach of them, MW All Tendencies 101Mono. poly are every wheie pernicious, unleis Circurnlbnces make them neceiTary: But in a new Colony they may be fatal, and mul't be detrimental: Too many Initances ftill fubfitting |