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of Chimneys of sufficient height might be erected every day, when the Weather permitted their Working and within the compass of a Week _ the Houses erected being occupied, a number more might be sent over _ and thus in the Course of Six Weeks, Houses might be built sufficcient to Shelter five hundred people, to come over every week as the Houses are prepared for their Reception _ (ten persons, where abundance of fuel would lie at every door) might lodge comfortably in each of those Houses, until Buildings were Built for the whole of them-
But in order to accomplish this object with expedition and without any other Expence to Government than what is here stated, except Nails, hinges for a Door, and twelve Panes of Glass for two small Windows in each Building (and while the Men are at Work) for transporting their Provisions hither - the builing of the Houses must necessarily be a common concern - since numbers of these people are unaccustomed to the Sawing of Boards and _800_ feet would be required for each house _ and this quantity alone could not be purchased and donveyed to them under four __ Pounds __ and it would be no more than reasonable, while their families are fed and supplied by Government with necessary materials for Building their own Houses, to insist on each individuals Working at the Business of wich he is most
capable