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Excerpt from The Fourteenth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Maryland State Colonization Society: To the Members and the Public In presenting their Fourteenth Annual Report, the Board of Managers have again the satisfaction of announcing the uninterrupted and increasing prosperity of the Colony of Maryland in Liberia; and of expressing their grateful sense of that Divine protection which has been accorded to it during the past year. The Kent, a brig of 150 tons, sailed from Baltimore for the Colony on the 15th November. She carried out but 14 emigrants. The Board attribute the smallness of the number to the loss which they sustained, during the summer, of the Rev. Air. Roberts, on whom, as their travelling agent, devolved the duty of collecting the emigrants for each expedition, - a duty requiring an intimate knowledge of the several counties of the State, and an acquaintance with the colored persons likely to become emigrants. Although the Board proceeded at once to appoint a successor, yet it was with no hope that he would be able so far to supply the place of Mr. Roberts as to get up the usual Fall Expedition. The result was that the number of emigrants was confined to that mentioned above. It would be omitting an act of justice, were the Board not to take the present opportunity of expressing their sense of the zeal, singleness of purpose, and worth of their late travelling agent: and in his loss, not only have the Board to lament a useful officer, but the cause of Colonization, a warm and devoted friend. In the despatches received, for some time past, from the Colony, the Agent, Gov. Russwurm, has dwelt upon the want of a suitable vessel, in which to prosecute the trade, connected with the Society's operations, to the windward and leeward of Cape Palmas. As soon as they felt satisfied of the importance of such a vessel, the Board determined, in place of sending one from this country, to send a model of a Schooner of 50 tons, with a competent ship carpenter to put it up in the Colony, and at the same time to send all the materials and naval stores that would be required, and which could not be obtained at Cape Palmas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.