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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 -- sufficient to Shelter. five hundred people -- to come over every Week as the houses are prepared for their reception -- (ten persons, where [illegible] [illegible] fuel would lie at every door) might lodge comfortably in each of those houses -- until Buildings [in?] Built for the whole of them -- But in order to accomplish this object with expedition, and without any other Expense 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 building 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 conveyed 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 individual Working at the Business of which he is most capable while the houses are Building -- taking due care that as the Carpenters and Sawyers do more than their proportion at the Buildings -- the others be required to compensate them in clearing Land about their houses -- and let their complying with these regulations