Nevertheless, if slaves are to be properly treated, they must have their particular owners, each of whom undertakes colonies, plantations and farms according to his circumstances and means, and endeavors by slave labor to derive therefrom, either for immediate support or for exportation, whatever can be a source of profit. Population in Brazil can be promoted not only by pointing out for its support lands fit for cultivation, but the common people be induced to settle there especially, provided all necessaries which do not grow there, and must absolutely be brought from Fatherland, can be procured at a cheap rate there. Moreover, those who have any means to establish plantations and colonies [^Inge?ihos'] must be encouraged as well by the concession of privileges for the Seigniors of the

colonies llngen/ios], exemption from tolls for some time, and other advantages, as, mainly, by the hope of profit they will realize by the improvement and barter of their products.Free trade will contribute, it is supposed, more to this end than exclusive commerce, especially as the former is regulated according to the merchant's greatest supply, and burthened with less charges than the Company's circumstances can at any time justify. The order hitherto observed in loading the goods of private traders in the Company's ships, hath given them occasion frequently to complain because several Chambers laying on three ships probably each time, ;

which do not sail before they are full, (a thing that sometimes takes a long while) merchants cannot make any calculation respecting the arrival of their goods at Brazil ; moreover, the Chambers whose turn it is to fit out ships, have frequently rejected goods of the greatest bulk and lowest duty, or left them lying a long time in store to the injury of the merchants, and sometimes the goods are not accommodated with storage, etc., in the Company's ships to the satisfaction of the merchants.