The slave trade to Brazil being opened with the approbation of the Chambers, it is to be further considered, as slaves during the revolt in Brazil cannot command any especial sale there, whether it would not be better to permit their exportation directly from Angola or at least from Brazil, to other places on double duty.But besides other difficulties which manifest themselves in this point, itmust be borne in mind, that in case a way be once opened for slaves, where greater profits would be realized than in Brazil, then private traders will mostly take that course, and Brazil thus remain deprived of a due supply of slave labor on the abundance of which, however, the cultivation and prosperity of our conquest must depend. Also, whenever private traders could raise the price of slaves elsewhere, the merchants in Angola would begin to compete among each other and run up the price, and thus ruin all at once the trade at Brazil. In order to contrive a middle course herein, it is submitted, whether the business could not be so regulated that the slave staple be provisionally established at Brazil, so that all private traders from Angola must first touch there, without being able to go directly elsewhere ; expose the slaves to sale at the Recifl^, or barter them with the Seigniors of the Plantations (Ingenios) and not be at liberty to export them so long as each slave, one with another, is worth twenty milreas or one hundred and fifty guilders cash, or so much more or less as the traders might with a reasonable profit be able to obtainacting thus, traders would, in the first place, have ;