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To the Honorable Richard Bulkeley, President
of his Majesty's Council, Commander in Chief, etc

Sir
Apprehending as we do that the present
Embarkation of Black People for Sierra Leone is more important
on account of the number of People going than was expected
either by Government or the Company, and feeling it a duty
incumbent on us to represent to you whatever appears necessary
for the safety of those People, we think it proper respectfully to
inform you, that if they should prove sickly on the Voyage, it
would be impossible fore Mr. Taylor the Company's Surgeon
to attend so many in a manner that appears to us necessary
for their general safety ------we therefore submit to you, whether
if an assistant Surgeon could be had, it would not be complying
with the intentions of Government in the "complete accommodation"
of those People ---we have further to observe,
that there is (as Mr. Taylor informs us) plenty of Medicines in
the Company's Chests for the purpose without any additional
expense on that Account, and as there are now rewards of
Twenty Men & Women beside children on the sick list