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[Draft reply by Banks]
Sir
If any opportunity offers in which I have it in my Power to recommend your Proposal for sending of Convicts I shall not fail to give it the Preference to my every cheaper mode I have yet heard of as I am of opinion that Economy ought not in the Case of so Long a voyage to be run with the extreme & tho I do not believe that the dreadfull mortality among the Convicts in the last ships was owing to any want of a Proper Provision of necessaries in the agreement for their [indecipherable] I conclude that the public when they are made acquainted with the particulars will attribute it to that Cause if they discover the least bias toward saving in the agreement contract with the owners.
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