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your prosperity to the utmost of their power.

They pray that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ may be with
you, with your families, and with all who sail or settle with
you; and that the American Colonization Society, and all its
sister institutions, may be rendered instrumental in diffusing
literary, economical, and evangelic light, from the Mediterranean
to the Cape of Good Hope, and from the Atlantic to the Red Sea
and Indian Ocean.

By order of the Board,
WM. STAUGHTON, _Cor. Sec'ry._

Seventh Report of the Board of Managers of the General
Convention, in _The Latter Day Luminary_, Vol. II, pp. 396f.

A RESOLUTION

A communication having been received from the Petersburg African
Mission Society, and also from brother Colston W. Waring, a
preacher of colour at Petersburg, desiring the patronage of this
Board in favour of the said Waring, as a missionary to Africa.

_Resolved_, That the said communications impart pleasure to this
body, and that the Board will cheerfully countenance and
encourage the said Waring as their missionary to Africa, provided
the expenses of his outfit, &c. can be met by his own resources
and those of his brethren in that quarter.

Sixth Annual Report of the Board, in _The Latter Day Luminary_,
Vol. II, p. 134.

A CONTRACT

KNOW ALL MEN, That this Contract, made on the fifteenth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
twenty-one, between King Peter, King George, King Zoda, and King
L. Peter, their Princes and Head-men, of the one part; and
Captain Robert F. Stockton and Eli Ayres, of the other part;
WITNESSETH, That whereas certain persons Citizens of the United
States of America, are desirous to establish themselves on the
Western Coast of Africa, and have invested Captain Robert F.
Stockton and Eli Ayres with full powers to treat with and
purchase from us the said Kings, Princes, and Head-men, certain
Lands, viz: Dozoa Island, and also all that portion of Land
bounded north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the south
and east by a line drawn in a south-east direction from the north
of Mesurado river, We, the said Kings, Princes, and Head-men,
being fully convinced of the Pacific a