The board of managers of the American Society for colonizing the free people of color of the United States have appointed you their agents, on a mission to explore a part of the west coast of Africa, for the purpose of ascertaining the best situation which can be procured for colonizing the free people of color of the United States.

     You have been appointed the agents of the “board of managers of the American Society for colonizing the free people of color of the United States,” for the purpose of visiting England and Africa on a mission of inquiry.