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It is proposed that fifty of the most expert and active of the men of Color should be immediately collected [and] placed on the Range of Lots assigned for these people that Provisions be deposited in the safer custody of of some person of confidence [and] trust -- as near to the proposed Settlement as possible -- and that these people be served with a Weekly allowance -- upon the express condition of their remaining steady at their Work and these people to be employed for the general benefit of the whole - in the following manner -- Sixteen of them to be [illegible] furnished with [light?] Whip Saws -- with which they would cut 1600 feet of boards per day sufficient to cover the Roofs and to floor two houses of 13 by 16 feet -- Ten of these people used to Carpenters Work, to be Employed with Broad axes (and six with Nailing hammers, augers, and Chizzels) to hew Logs for Sawing into Board, and the timber necessary for the Roofs and to lay the floors on -- and to the little necessary Carpenters Work for Erecting of Loghouses -- : the remaining 30 Men be each allowed a felling axe -- 3 Grindstones for common use and a few hoes spades. Pick axes and Trowels. 2 X cuts Saws -- 2 [ illegible] and 2 drawing knives for making Shingles for battening the Roofs -- With these Men properly directed Two houses, with Stone backs of Chimneys of sufficient