to a merchant or company, a sheet or two, or more, of Agency notes, you can take his or their note on demand, which will not be considered as bearing interest until the demand is made. This will probably not be the case until you have occasion to transfer the note. These notes will also be convenient to you in payment of such of the printed Agency notes as may, from time to time, be returned to you for payment: and when you have more of them than you think necessary for this purpose, you can use them in purchasing provisions, discharging salaries or other demands which you may have to pay. The receipt book will be found convenient, either for Agency notes paid to officers on account of salary, or for payment on any other account: and the form being printed, trouble will thereby be saved, and being bound, the receipts will be securely kept. If you circulate the Agency notes gradually as wanted, you will, it is supposed, seldom have any return upon you for payment, as they will, no doubt, be always in good credit throughout the Colony. It might be well, before issuing the currency, to converse with some of the merchants and most influential persons at Monrovia, bespeaking their friendly aid in circulating the notes, and assuring them that whenever necessary, you will take up the notes, either with goods, in cash or notes, or by drafts on this Board. The Managers have received from the Colony by the Jupiter, three packets of bills and receipts of payments made by the Agency during the last year; but unaccompanied with any account current, without which they are of no use; for as there is no account for these receipts to vouch, nothing can be done with them. Neither was there any list of these bunde of papers. The Treasurer of the Society has, however, supplied this defect, by making out a list; but having done this, he can do nothing more. He cannot make a single entry on his books that will cast any light on the transactions of the Colony during the past year, for the satisfaction of the Managers, or for the information of the Society at its Annual Meeting. It is hoped that these deficient accounts will be received hereafter. There came with these bills and receipts three quarto pages of post paper, in an envelope endorsed "Balance sheet, January 1, 1834, and amount paid since July 1, 1833, to January 1, 1834." On the first of these pages was written "Accounts paid from July 1, 1833, to January 1, 1834.” Contingent or Agency expenses, $1142 94 | John Leon, Dixon R. Brown, 21 70 167 99 James C. Minor, 115 75 On the 2nd page, "List of balances due from Colonial Agency." John B. Russwurm, 182 83 William Ruffin, 141 91 G. V. Cesar, $239 43 348 10 Patsey Davis, 246 94 Joshua Chase, 28 08 Elijah Johnson, 171 93 Joshua Stewart, 163 64 John Leon, 122 25 James C. Minor, Sampson Taylor, 8 55 1 08 Jacob W. Prout, James M. Thompson, 41 21 165 52 Wm. L. Weaver, 86 05 On the 3rd page is the following: "List of balances due Colonial Agency, Jan. 1, 1834.” The Treasurer supposes that the foregoing statements have reference to the accounts of the Colony with this Board; but he needs farther light to enable him to understand their bearing, and to make any entry on the subject. It is the wish of that officer, and it is the most earnest desire of the Board and of the Society at large, that semi-annual returns should be so clearly and amply made to this office, that he may at all times be able to exhibit a satisfactory view of the affairs of the Colony to all who contribute their funds to its support, and who have its prosperity and happiness at heart. In connexion with this topic, I am instructed to transmit to you the following copy of a Resolution adopted by the Board on the 25th of April, 1834: "Resolved, That MR. PINNEY be requested to have prepared and transmitted to the Board a statement of the amount of money received into the Colonial Treasury from all its sources, specifying the amount from each source under its proper head, and the amount disbursed, specifying the several objects of disbursement from the 1st of January, 1828, to the 1st of January, 1834." In the Special Report before referred to, you will find expressed the views of the Board on the subject of drafts from the Colony. The extent to which this burden has heretofore been thrown on the Society, is the main cause of its present pecuniary distress. The Board have full confidence that your opinion on this subject concurs with their own; and that you will not, except under special circumstances, resort to this expedient. It will be their care to prevent, as far as may be, the occurrence of such contingencies. The drafts which you have drawn are justified by the circumstances in which you were placed, and have been accepted by the Board. Your views of the mode of compensating officers at the Colony, coincide in a remarkable degree with those of the Board, as will appear from the Resolutions of January 30, 1834, before referred to. Your arrangement in regard to L. R. Johnson, meets the approbation of the Board for such time as you may have agreed on. If, however, you have made no precise agreement as to time, the obligation of the Society to pay his salary will be understood as terminating on the first day of August next, in pursuance of the fourth Resolution of January 30, 1834, hereinbefore communicated; Mr. Johnson's office (that of book-keeper), being one of those of which the support is thrown by the said Resolution on the funds raised in the Colony. This was done, because the Board was satisfied that the duties of book-keeper might be conveniently discharged by either the Colonial Secretary or the Store-keeper, both of whose salaries they consent still to pay. You will also consider these remarks, where applicable, as governing the other cases mentioned by you. In the case of Mr. Williams, which he has not enabled you to state with the precision that is desirable, he refers you to a conversation between himself and Mr. Gurley. On the Secretary's return to Washington, the Board will confer with him on the subject. The Board regard as very judicious the views presented by you of the expediency of keeping the Public Store-house well supplied; and it will be their constant care to supply it to whatever extent the object may require, and the state of their funds will justify. You are requested to transmit by the first opportunity, a list of such articles as would be most acceptable at the Colonial Store. Measures have been taken for sending by the Jupiter, a supply of sea island cotton, wheel cards, and other merchandise, including provisions; also some agricultural implements. These, it is hoped, will be in readiness for that vessel. The Board concur in your opinion of the importance of a Light-house and a Poor-house; and trust that means will be found in the Colony for the erection of those establishments. You are aware that it is wholly out of their power, at this time, to aid that desirable object. They are much gratified at the expedition with which you were enabled to put up a receptacle at Monrovia for the emigrants, at your having caused a saw-mill to be erected, and at your arrangements concerning the Margaret Mercer. Should future experience lead you to the conclusion that this Schooner cannot be profitably employed on the present plan, you will consider yourself authorized to hire her out, or to sell her, as you may deem best. The Board also cordially approve of your proceedings in regard to the Hospitals, the Agency House and Yard, the Flag Staff, the Half-way houses, and the purchase of six acres of land at Bendoo. Your vigorous conduct in the last instance will, it is hoped, have the effect of preventing any farther difficulty on that subject. You will observe in the African Repository for March, 1834, p. 27, that the Board had passed a Resolution authorizing the Agent to purchase land in the interior, from a belief that the farming portion of the emigrants would be more healthy there than on the sea-board. Of your proceedings concerning surveys, the Board also approve. They are fully satisfied of the importance of having a competent person to survey the whole country, and will, when able to incur the expense, cheerfully employ such an officer. In order to meet the medical wants of the Colony, the Board have engaged the services of Dr. EZEKIEL SKINNER, of Ashford in Connecticut, and of Dr. ROBERT MCDOWELL, of Edinburgh in Scotland. These Physicians, of whose qualifications and characters the most satisfactory testimonials exist, both go out in the Jupiter. You will assign to Dr. TODSEN and to them their respective locations and fields of duty; and the official relations of them all to you are to continue the same as those heretofore borne by the Colonial Physicians of the Society to its Colonial Agent. CHARLES H. WEBB, one of the medical students for some time past under the care of the Board, will probably embark in the Jupiter for the Colony. You will be pleased to provide comfortable boarding for him on his arrival, during the prosecution of his medical studies, or to allow him such an amount in money as may be deemed a reasonable equivalent. The Board recommend him to your particular notice. Should any other of the said students sail in the Jupiter, as may possibly be the case, you will make the same arrangement in his instance as in that of Mr. Webb. In the Criterion, which was chartered by this Society, and sailed for the Colony in August, 1831, Mr. A. H. Ringgold consigned 10 hhds. of tobacco to Dailey and Russwurm, for the freight of which they charged him, and he paid, one hundred and sixty dollars. Dailey and Russwurm had also goods in the same vessel, the freight of which amounted to from seven hundred to one thousand dollars. As the Society chartered the vessel, the freight was due to it; but no account of it appears in any returns received. The Lafayette was also chartered by the Society, and carried out 500 bls. It is stated that of flour at $2 each, freight, of which we have no account. $200 were sent out by the Baltimore Society as subscriptions to the Liberia Herald, which money is not accounted for. You are requested to obtain what information you can in relation to the foregoing matters, and communicate it to this office. The indispensable purpose of paying off the debt of the Society, calls into engrossing action all the energies of the Board. Until it shall be accomplished, they will not feel themselves at liberty_to prosecute, except on a very limited scale, the business of emigration. It is not probable that emigrants will be sent to the Colony during the present year, unless the stock, created for the extinguishment of the debt shall meet with a more rapid sale than it has hitherto received, and thus leave the Board free to execute their plan of Colonial operations. Herewith is forwarded the answer [marked F,] to the Colonial memorial enclosed in your letter of March 7, 1834, which answer you will be pleased to hand to the Committee representing the memorialists. You will receive by the Jupiter, twenty copies of the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Society, several copies of late numbers of the African Repository, and a supply of American newspapers of recent date, which have been received at this office. You will, of course, afford to the Colonists every opportunity which they may desire of perusing these publications. The Board hope that the Liberia Herald will, for the future, reach the United States more punctually than heretofore. The lively interest felt here in that print, has made the irregularity of its arrival a subject of proportional disappointment. In closing this communication, I request you to regard as one of the general duties of your office, that of furnishing the Board with detailed accounts of the condition and prospects of the Colony. Your attention is particularly urged to the Resolutions, in relation to the past and present statistics of the Colony, which were adopted at the last Annual Meeting, and are contained in p. xxi and xxii of the Seventeenth Annual Report. You are also expected to collect and forward to us all procurable information as to the operations of the slave trade, and as to the manners, customs, institutions, agriculture, commerce, and history, religious, civil and natural, of Africa. With the best wishes for the successful administration of your office, and for your health and happiness, I am, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, P. R. FENDALL, Recorder. List of Documents and Publications sent by the Jupiter. DOCUMENTS. A. Appointment of Mr. Pinney by the Secretary of the Navy. B. Commission from the Society to the Colonial Agent. C. Colonial laws passed since January 1st, 1834, and approved by the Board. E. Report on the establishment of a currency for the Colony. F. Answer to a Memorial from the Colony. PUBLICATIONS. Twenty copies of the Seventeenth Annual Report. Five copies of the African Repository for each of the months of December, 1833, and January, February, March, and April, 1834, for the Colonial Agent and for distribution. The same work during the same period, for subscribers. A collection of recent newspapers. OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, REV. JOHN B. PINNEY, Colonial Agent, &c. WASHINGTON, 1834. Dear Sir: As the Jupiter has not yet sailed, contrarily to the wishes and expectations of the Board, they use the opportunity offered by the delay, to call your attention, more particularly than in my letter of the 15th instant, to the subject of Temperance in the Colony. While the Managers are happy to believe, from the evidence before. them, that the extent of the use of ardent spirits in Liberia has been grossly exaggerated, they cannot resist the conviction that the traffic in that article has been, and continues to be, carried on to a degree which menaces the best interests, if not the existence, of the Colony. So profound is this conviction, that for several years past, the absolute exclusion of ardent spirits from the Colony, except in small quantities, for medical purposes, has been meditated by the Managers; and nothing has prevented a resort to this strong measure, but serious doubts of its competency to effect the desired object. For the nature of these doubts, I refer you to the African Repository, Vol. 9, p. 66. They have hitherto prevailed with the Board to postpone either prohibiting in terms, or laying duties so heavy as effectively to prohibit, the introduction of ardent spirits, with the exception just specified. Among the enactments on this subject which, from time to time, the Board have made, are the following Resolutions: "Resolved, That the friends of the Society throughout the country, be informed that this Board will discourage the introduction and use of distilled spirits in the Colony, and among the native tribes; and that the subject is now under consideration of the Board." Adopted 28th of June, 1830. "Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to prepare an address to the Colonists, to be sent out by the vessel, now about to be despatched; in which, among other things, to be recommended to their observance for their welfare, he shall encourage them to form Temperance Societies, and adopt such other measures as may tend to diminish both the use and the sale of ardent spirits in the Colony; and also, that in their commerce with the natives, they discontinue dealing in such articles; also, that the Secretary communicate to the Colonial Agent, the wishes of the Board upon this subject." Adopted 8th of November, 1830. "Resolved, That the Board hear with extreme regret, of the continued introduction and use of ardent spirits in the Colony; that they are resolved to exercise all their influence to discourage and diminish the evil; and that no ardent spirits, except such as may be needful for medical purposes, shall be introduced by the Board or its Agents." Adopted April 30th, 1833. "Resolved, That it be recommended to the Board of Managers, to take into consideration, at their next meeting, the expediency of prohibiting altogether, the introduction of ardent spirits into the Colony, as an article of trade with the natives, or of commerce with the Colonists." Adopted May 7th, 1833. The address, directed by the Resolution of November 8, 1830, was prepared in conformity with that Resolution, and transmitted to the Colony for distribution. At a meeting of the Board on the 18th of December, 1833, the following Resolution was offered, and a decision on it deferred for farther deliberation: "Resolved, That from and after the 1st of July, 1834, no ardent or distilled spirits shall be introduced into the Colony of Liberia for purposes of drink or traffic. At the Annual Meeting of the Society, held shortly after, its attention was called to this important subject; but the members were not prepared to act decidedly upon it. The following remarks were made on that occasion by an eloquent and distinguished friend of the Society: "My neighbours know that I am no friend to the rum traffic; and they, if no others, will attach some value to my declaration, that I have formerly, and now again since coming to the city, inquired into the measures adopted by our Board to promote Temperance in Liberia, and can cheerfully say, that I approve of them, As to the attempt to suppress the |