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medium will amount to about 87493 /, 



But allowing a confidera- 



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/es, we may reafonably 

 which will reduce this ium to 



ble part of thefe to be alfo imported by the planters themfel 

 abate a fourth part of the extraordinary furch 

 about 78309/. 1 7 s. per annum, 



Madera wines make another confiderable article among the imports of this Mand 

 but this decreafes every day, and at this time, they feldom have above half the quan 

 tity that ufed to be formerly imported there j for moft people make ufe of weak run 

 punch, which they find as wholefome, and generally more agreeable to their over 

 heated habits : of late years the importation of this commodity feldom exceeds 827 



pjpes per annum 



6464/. of that currency 



medium, which at a moderate computation amount to about 







Thefe 



the 



nly commod 



and thefe with the produce of North A, 



whofe value we could afcertain with certainty 



than 7 



80000 /. p 



which we can hardly compute at lefs 



make up the whole of the imports of that Iiland 



but the laft certainly furnimes the moft neceflary articles for a fugar colony 



I am next to give fome account of the public revenues of this Iiland : thefe have 

 been very confiderable of late years, and raifed, partly by duties fettled for his Ma- 

 iefty's fervice; and partly by taxes impofed by temporary laws on the more preflingoc- 

 cafions of the public. Thofe that have been fettled by ftanding laws for the immedi- 

 fervice of the crown, amount to about fixteen thoufand pounds a year, and are 



fed in the following manner, viz. 





By d 



foreign wines and other fpirituous liquors 



foreigr) ind 



cacoa, tobacco, cotton, and Englijh refined fugars ; which at a medium for feven years, 



amount to about eleven thoufand pounds a year. 



2dfyy By the quit-rents of about one million, and five or fix hundred thoufand acres 

 of land, that are already patented in that Iiland, and pay at the rate of a halfpenny per 

 acre ; and the intereft on quit-rent bonds at 1 o per cent, which amount to about four 

 thoufand pounds currency per annum, taken at a medium forfeveral years. 



idly, By efcheats and cafualties, which feldom amount to lefs than one thoufand 



pounds more per annum. 



The monies raifed by thefe means are paid into the Receiver General's office, wh« 

 is allowed i\ per cent, upon receipt of them, and as much on paying them again ; 

 by which difpofition he is deprived of the commiffions that would otherwife arife 



from the 



:pt of h 



commifnons, as well as the certain gratification of un- 





rtain fervices. But his Majefty has been gracioufly pleated to content that thcte mo- 



:s fhould be always laid out in promoting the welfare and fecurity of the Ifland, 

 and in paying of the public officers, whofe falaries he was pleafed to confent fhould 

 be regulated and appointed in the following manner, viz. 



To the Governor for the time being 2500 /. per annum. 



To the Auditor General, 202/. 10 s. per annum. 



To the Chief Juftice, 120/. per annum. 



To the feveral Land waiters, 120 /. per annum. 





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To the Captain of 



45 /. 1 2 s. 6d. p 





and inftituted 



The other parts of the public revenues are frill more confiderabl 

 as a fund to fupply the immediate or more urgent neceflities of the colony ; they 



indeed generally lodged in the hands of the Receiver General 



though the com 



munity have frill retained the liberty of appointing a commiflioner or receiver of thefe 

 alone ; whom, whoever he be, they gratify either with a ftated commiflion of 5 /. 



an any part 

 :>n. Thefe 

 ties of the 



ommunity, 



per cent, or an occafional falary, as they may think moft 



thereof be appropriated or difpofed of without their confent and approbat 



are raifed by 



imports 



gulated according to the 



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public necefi 



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