Sentence:  Such a Step as this would raise a Succession of able Seamen, and in a few Years would come to <WSD>remit</WSD> a thousand, or perhaps two or three thousand sturdy Youths every Year into the general Class of "English" Seamen; 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.