228 HISTORY OF THE [BOOK. n. 



As appendages of the supreme court, the several 

 great offices, viz. the office of enrolments, or secre- 

 tary ot the island, provost-marshal-general, clerk of 

 the court (or prothonotary, custos-brevium, &c.), are 

 held and situated in Spanish Town. The first is an 

 office of record, in which the laws passed by the le- 

 gislature are preserved; and copies of them entered 

 into tair volumes. In this office all deeds, wills, sales, 

 and patents, must be registered. It is likewise re- 



Salary - . 5,000 



Fees in chancery - T 150 



Fees of the court of ordinary - 1,400 



Share of custom house seizures - 1,000 



The assembly have purchased for the governor's use, a farm 

 of about three hundred acres, called the Government Penn, and 

 built an elegant villa thereon. Likewise a polink or provision 

 settlement in the mountains, (which is also provided with a com- 

 fortable mansion-house), and stocked both properties with fifty 

 negroes, and a sufficiency of cattle, sheep, &c. From these 

 places (which are exclusive of the king's house in Spanish Town) 

 the governor is, or ought to be, supplied with hay and corn, 

 mutton, milk, poultry, and provisions for his domestics, cre- 

 ating a saving in hia household expenses of at least - - 1,000 



Total in currency - . 8,550 



Being equal to .6,100 sterling; and this is altogether exclusive of 

 fees received by his private secretary for militia commissions, &c. &c. &c. 

 which are not easily ascertained. It is supposed also that money has some- 

 times been made by the sale of church livings 5 and vast sums were former- 

 ly raised by escheats. 



N. B. A governor of Jamaica may live very honourably for .3,000 

 sterling per annum. Since the former editions of this work were publish- 

 ed, the assembly, at the request of the governor, have passed an act for 

 the sale of both the Government Penn and Mountain Polink, and in lieu 

 thereof ^have settled an additional salary of .2,000 currency on the com- 

 rnanderin chief for the time being. 



