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 This trade, however, was not as much affected as the Company anticipated. In the following year, several Irish gentlemen are found inquiring as to the rates at which they would be permitted to sell cattle in the Colony, and were informed that for every heifer they landed there in sound condition, they would receive eleven pounds sterling, or one hundred and thirty pounds of tobacco at their option. This was on the whole a fair price.