As these People are very necessitous they will not be able to

CiO APERS RELATING TO THE

maintain themselves tliere. till they can reap the benefit of tlieii labour whicli will not be till after one year at tlie soonest, We therefore humbly oiler that they be Subsisted, The men and women at the rate of 6*^ sterling a head p^' day, and the children under the age of 10 years at 4*^ Sterling a iieud p^' day which as we are inibrmed will be sufiicient

When their houses shall be built, and the ground cleared for making their settlements they may then be Employed in the making of Turpentine Rozin Tarr and Pitch, and that this will be benelicial not only to the said Palatines but to this Kingdom. We take leave to observe : --

That one man may make by Ms own labour six tunns of these Stores in a year ; and we have been iniormed that a number of men assisting eacii other may in proportion make double that quantity j so that supposing six hundred men be employed in this work, they may produce 7000 tuns of tliese goods a year, and if in time a greater quantity of those Stores should be made there, than shall be consumed in your Majesty's Dominions, We hope the overplus may turn to a very benelicial Trade with Spain & Portugal.

We have been inibrmed by the Conmissioners formerly sent over by the Navy Board to inspect Naval Stores in New England that Tarr might be afforded there under £5 a tun ; and supposing the ifeight from thence in time of peace to be under M p>- Tumi, as we do not doubt it will, and wiiereas the Premium of <£4 per Tunn allowed upon Importation of such Tarr will more than answer the Charge of Freight, We beheve it may be sold as Cheap as that from the Northern Crowns.