Excerpt from Maryland Colonization Journal, Vol. 1: October 15, 1812 Prudential Committee their fixed determination to adhere to their ordinance in that respect. If this were the only difficulty in the case, your committee might have hoped, from the christian courtesy in which the whole correspondence has been carried on, between the President of the Society and the Secretary of the Board, that some arrangement of that subject might still have been effected, which would have relieved this Board from the painful necessity of removing their mission from the limits of the territory of the colony. But the Colonization Society at borne, and its local government at Cape Palmas have thought it necessary, in protecting the peculiar interests of its citizens as colonists, to adopt other regulations which have perplexed and embarrassed the operations of the mission to a considerable extent. Among other things, a law has been passed by the colonial government to confine the right of trading or dealing in merchandise to the citizens of the colony, with certain exceptions. By the Operation ofthis law, the missionaries are restricted from disposing of merchandise, &c. Sent out to them for the pay ment Of persons in their employ in the colony, at an advance upon its cost. And as the usual price at which such goods are sold by others, in payment of labour, materials &c. Is at one hundred per cent. Advance. The practical operation of the law appears to be to compel the missionaries to pay nearly double what is paid by others for the same services, as there is little or no money in circulation there. Another law provides that persons of African descent, emigrating to the colony for employment, shall obtain a certificate of residence, under a heavy penalty for each days' neglect; which certificate of residence brings them necessarily within the operation of the ordinance relative to militia duty. And as almost the only persons of that description who come into the colony for employment are teachers whom the missionaries have procured from different points of the coast, the missionaries have reason to consider this law as particularly aimed at them, by the local government of the colony; and as intended to embarrass them in procuring such teachers and retaining them rn their service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.