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                               Aemeo                          Augt. 13th 1816

My dear Friend,
I think it necessary to give you some account of the pecuniary [?] of the mission as you are so much interested in our welfare.
When the missionaries were about to return to these Islands from the Colony they were given to understand that the directors would allow two or three families £100 per Annum.  This is the reason that the missionaries individually [?] on Mr Marsden and they expected that an account would be kept so [?].[privately?]
When the vessel was undertaken [?] wrote to Mr M begging him to get some of his mission friends to send them such things as they wanted on account of their vessel & charge the reasonable interest but by no means to throw the burden on the Mission Society.   Now they are [assured?] from clear grounds that private, public & ship accounts are all blended together and charged to the [?] which gives them a great deal of trouble and concern.  Large sums are expended on the Tahitian mission and yet the missionaries have been and are like [likely] to be destitute of common comforts in this enervating climate.  The private bills of some has [have] been paid of [and?] others refused which of course has caused discontent.  And now the owners some of whom are not in [indecipherable] of the vessel [indecipherable] are like to have the use of a great deal of the society's

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