The ... Annual Report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States, Band 16 |
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adjourned meeting adopted Africa American Colonization Society appointed approbation ARTICLE Auxiliary Societies benevolence Board of Directors Board of Managers cause character charity Christian citizens civil Colonial Agent colonists coloured population Committee consider Constitution Court Court of Sessions dollars duty emigrants established executive Government expedition expressed Finley free black Frelinghuysen friends funds further enacted GERRIT SMITH Government Gurley happiness honour hope hundred individual Institution interests Jenifer justice Kentucky labours Legislature liberality liberty Louisiana manumissions manumitted manumitted slaves Maryland ment Mercer Monrovia moral motion nation native nett proceeds o'clock object officers Ohio opinion peace persons of colour port present President proceedings promote prosperity public lands recaptured Africans received resolution Resolved RICHARD SMITH Secretary settlement slavery Socie South Carolina Theodore Frelinghuysen thousand tion Treasurer tribes Union United Vice-Agent Vice-Presidents Virginia WALTER JONES Washington City Worcester County zeal
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Seite xxii - The object to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Seite xx - ... to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free People of Colour residing in our country, in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient. And the Society shall act, to effect this object, in cooperation with the General Government, and such of the States as may adopt regulations upon the subject.
Seite 38 - That from and after the 31st day of December, 1832, there shall be allowed and paid to each of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, and Louisiana, over and above what each of the said states is entitled to by the terms of the compacts entered into between them respectively upon their admission into the union and the United States, the sum of twelve and a half per centum upon the net amount of the sales of the public lands...
Seite 38 - ... internal improvement, and at the same time to increase the minimum price of the sections reserved; and in case the same shall be increased by law, except as aforesaid, at any time during the operation of this act, then so much of this act as provides that the nett proceeds of the sales of the public lands shall be distributed among the several States, shall, from and after the increase...
Seite 38 - Legislatures thereof shall direct ; and located in parcels conformably to sectional divisions and subdivisions, of not less than three hundred and twenty acres in any one location...
Seite 33 - ... a portion of the community, or of individuals. ARTICLE XIV. The Judiciary of the Colony shall consist of the Agent and a competent number of Justices of the peace, created by his appointment. The Justices shall have cognizance of all cases affecting the peace, and of all criminal cases within th« definition of petit larceny, and all actions of debt not exceeding twenty dollars.
Seite 23 - Robert Barclay (Bury Hill) 100 0 0 A Female Friend (per ST, of York), who is only rich by the fewness of her own wants, and the cheerfulness with which she ministers to those of others 100 0 0 A Female Friend 100 0 0 London Female Anti-Slavery Society 50 0 0 A Friend(in Warwickshire)...
Seite 6 - ... were American, twenty-five English, and two French. The exports during the same period, (consisting chiefly of camwood, ivory, palm oil, tortoise shell and gold,) amounted to...
Seite 18 - I here see many who left the United States in straitened circumstances, living with all the comforts of life around them, enjoying a respectable and useful station in society, and wondering that their brethren in the United States, who have it in their power, do not flee to this asylum of happiness and liberty. I am certain no friend to humanity can come here and see the state of things without being impressed with the immense benefits the Society is conferring on the long-neglected sons of Africa.
Seite 3 - Leone, have granted an unquestionable title to this land, on the sole condition that settlers shall be placed upon it, and that schools shall be established for the benefit of native children. Some of these chiefs having obtained the rudiments of an English —education in Liberia, expressed earnest desires that the benefits of instruction should be afforded to their countrymen, and the young men declared their purpose of submitting to the laws of the Colony, and their willingness to make further...