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is reckoned at about £100; but, with the assistance which each family will require towards building a hut, and for its support for the few first months, the whole charge incident to their removal will probably amount to about £500 or £600.

      These refugees have already occasioned so much expense to the Province, (into which they were introduced as Paupers, and against the desire of the Inhabitants), that the Assembly will undoubtedly decline to advance the sum required for the purpose. Without assistance, therefore, from His Majesty's Government, or some other source, these unhappy people must continue to remain in their present pitiable condition. I am induced, therefore, to express a hope that, as H.M. Government have already, on more than one occasion, expressed their readiness to defray the expense of conveying them to and settling them in another Colony they will not now be indisposed to extend their bounty in another shape and bear the charge of transferring them from the barren lands on which they are now living to a better part of the Country, where the fruitful Soil would stimulate them to those industrious habits which have been discouraged by the unproductive nature of the land on which they are now settled.

      Should Your Lordship approve, as I earnestly trust you will, of lands being allotted for them in the situation specified by the Surveyor General, or elsewhere, as may be deemed expedient, and place a sum of money at my disposal for this object, it shall be my care to appoint a competent Committee of Gentlemen to make the necessary arrangements for their removal and location, with the strictest economy.