There is a considerable difference between encourageing the exportation & sale of a commodity which is already the manufacture of the country & engageing people to go upon a new commodity or manufacture in the first it is sufficient to give the merchant encouragement to buy & export in the other the encouragement would

be more effectual if it were immediately applied to the persons who were to begin the Manufacture & run the whole risque of its turning to advantage or not.

Now I shall mention the means which I think most probable to make this Province useful in producing Naval Stores & which may with the least difficulty be put in practice In the first place, to

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prevent the decay of Timber, fit for masts every one that improves Lands on which white Pines grow ought to be obliged to plant white Pines at proper distances all round his fields & enclosures

when any of these shall dye or be cut down to put another in its place and some officer be obliged to see this punctually observed and for the encouragement of such as shall raise Hemp that the Receiver

General be directed to receive Hemp when offered in lieu of money for the Kings Quit Rents at an encouraaing price which Price the Receiver General ought to publish, pursuant to the directions he shall receive from England

--The Commissioners of the Navy

to appoint a Factor at New York whose

credit must be punctually kept up to purchase Masts & Tar, made according to the direction of the Act of Parliament, who shall yearly publish the prices he will give for any of these commoditys &