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Resolved, also, that the Governor, Deputy Governor, and Treasurer, be requested to wait upon the Improvement Committee, at their next meeting, and treat with them for the purchase of the said plot of ground.

24th November. The members of the Court, who had been deputed to wait upon the Improvement Committee, on the subject of purchasing the piece of ground in Guildhall Yard for the erection of a building, for the purpose of conducting the affairs of the Society therein, informed the Court, that the Committee of Improvement had expressed their willingness to agree to the proposal made to them for the purchase of the said piece of ground, and that the Deputation had accordingly concluded the terms of purchase with them; whereupon it was resolved, that the secretary should take the necessary steps to carry the said agreement into effect on behalf of the Society.

CONCLUSION.

Ir will, no doubt, be obvious to the reader of the preceding pages, that a main object for incorporating the Irish Society, independently of the pecuniary benefit to arise to the original planters and their successors, was to ameliorate the condition of the inhabitants on their Plantation, by enabling the Society to exercise their discretion, in adopting such measures as might appear to them most conducive to the happiness and prosperity of the community under their jurisdiction. The powers of the Irish Society were, therefore, necessarily co-extensive with the possession of the entire estate, and such powers could neither be alienated nor discontinued.

The Crown invested the Society with the most ample authority to enforce their own regulations for the general objects of the Plantation; and notwithstanding the division

of the estates amongst the twelve chief Companies, such estates are to be considered still under the paramount jurisdiction of the Irish Society, and liable to contributions, if necessary, in common with the indivisible estates in the Society's hands, towards the general expense of maintaining public works and edifices; supporting the civil government of the city of Derry and town of Coleraine; repairing Protestant churches and chapels; establishing schools throughout the whole Plantation; and, generally, for the execution of such measures as tend to promote and improve the civil and religious interests of the tenantry.

APPENDIX.

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