CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844 — Page 33

competition, but there is this disadvantage. attendant upon the principle of a bonus, or premium, viz, the great value of money in this country, and the high rate of ... interist, at which the purchaser would calculate any advance thus given upon the land _ we are therefore of opinion, that if by any other means, the requisite funds

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can be obtained, it would be more

advantageous, to dispose of the Land at an Annual Rent

· free from any condition of bonus or premium . Should our views meet with the approval of His Excellency The Governor, we will immediately draw up, and submit for the consideration of His Excellency, a Scale of Rents,

and splet prices, for the different classes, together with a report of the result of our inquiries, into the equitable Claims of all holders of lands in this Colony.

We

We have yo

(Signed) B. Burgass

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A. J. Gordon

Chat St. Geo: Cleverly

Chart E. Stewart

True Copy.

Nichard Worman

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