24Q HISTORY OF THE [BOOK n. 



Brought over - 29,259 



St. Mary - 17,144 



St. Ann - - 13,324 



Kingston - - 6,162 



St. Andrew - 9,613 



St. David 2,831 



St. Thomas in the East 20,492 



Portland - 4,537 



St. George - 5,050 



St. Elizabeth 13,280 



Hanover - 17,612 



St. James - - 18,546 



Trelawney 19,318 



Port-Royal - - 2,229 



Westmoreland - 16,700 



Clarendon - 14,747 



Total - - 210,894 



It appears, however, from the report of the com- 

 mittee of the assembly above cited, that in most of 

 the parishes it is customary to exempt persons not 

 having more than six negroes, from the payment of 

 taxes on slaves, whereby many of the negroes, espe- 

 ciallv in the townsJI are not given in to the different 



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vestries, and the returns of a great many others are 

 fraudulently concealed; thus the tax-rolls do not con- 

 tain the full number of slaves, which in the opinion 

 of the committee, were at that time 240,000, at the 



11 In Kingston for instance, the real number is 16,659, instead of 

 6,161, the number of the tax-rolls. On an average of the whole num- 

 ber of parishes, the negroes not given in or returned may be reckoned at 

 one seventh part of the whole. 



