Report of the Committee of the African Institution, 3. köideEllerton and Henderson, 1814 |
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Page 33 - Ix'fore the determination thereof; it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ten, it shall and may be lawful, for any person or persons...
Page 33 - ... to the use of His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to the use of the person who shall inform or sue for the same...
Page 33 - Insuranœs whatsoever to be effected upon or in respect to any of the trading, dealing, carrying, removing, transhipping, or other Transactions by this Act prohibited, shall be also prohibited and declared to be unlawful ; and if any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person or Persons resident within this United Kingdom, or within any of the Islands, Colonies, Dominions, or Territories thereunto belonging, or in His Majesty's Possession or Occupation, shall knowingly and wilfully subscribe, effect,...
Page 16 - observes the governor, " but that the natives in this neighbourhood will have abundant employment. Hitherto they have been chiefly busied in the manufacture of salt, which is in great demand. Their rice fields have certainly been prepared this year a fortnight or three weeks earlier than usual, from which I .prognosticate well. " All the wars round us are suspended for the present. I do not say that they are suspended in consequence of the abolition ; but the abolition is very likely to prevent...
Page 32 - Manner utterly abolished, prohibited, and declared to be unlawful; and if any of His Majesty's Subjects, or any Person or Persons resident within this United Kingdom, or any of the Islands, Colonies, Dominions, or Territories thereto belonging, or in His Majesty's...
Page 25 - ... supplied by means of fresh seed brought from a distance. This would prevent the Cotton from degenerating, which it never fails to do when it has been propagated in the same ground for many years without a change of seed, and would of course preserve its quality and maintain its reputation in the European markets.
Page 25 - The plant should be cut down every year, within three or four inches of the ground. The time for doing this, which must be in the rainy season (?) ought to be regulated by the same circumstances which regulate the planting of the seed at first. But every fourth or fifth year the plants ought to be grubbed out, and their places supplied with plants grown from fresh seed brought from a distance.
Page 23 - Island, undergoes the same change with the green, but when it first comes out it is of a deep yellow colour. The Cotton should be fully blown before it is picked. This may be ascertained by its separating easily from the pod or husk. When it adheres to the pod, and must be forced from it, the Cotton will be of an inferior quality. Great care should be taken to gather...
Page 33 - Insurance to be made, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of five hundred pounds ; and every such Insurance shall be absolutely null and void.