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ing them from the Territory. Perhaps the 

 most marked instances of violence occurred at 

 Seattle and Tacoma. On this subject the Gov- 

 ernor says in his report : 



By the Territorial census of 1885 there were 3,276 

 Chinese residents in the Territory. Many of them 

 have heretofore l>een usefully employed as servants, 

 and as laborers in the mines and on the railroads and 



Eublic works. The hostile feeling against Chinese 

 as been greatly increased by reason of failure on the 

 part of the Government to adequately enforce the re- 

 striction act, large numhers of Chinese having stolen 

 into the Territory from the neighboring province of 

 British Columbia in violation of law. 



WEST INDIES. British. Bahamas. This 

 group is composed of about twenty inhabited 

 islands, and an immense number of islets and 

 rocks. The principal islands are New Provi- 

 dence, containing the capital, Nassau ; Abaco ; 

 Harbor Island; Eleuthera; Inagua; Mayagu- 

 ana ; Andros Island ; Great Bahama ; Ragged 

 Island ; Rurn Cay ; Exuma ; Long Island ; 

 Crooked Island; Acklin Island; Long Cay; 

 Watling's Island; Cat Island, now known as 

 St. Salvador ; the Berry Islands ; and the Bi- 

 minis. 



By the census of 1881, the population was 

 43,521. 



The Governor and commander-in-chief is 

 Vice- Admiral H. A. Blake ; the Colonial Sec- 

 retary, R. H. Sawyer. The Governor is aided 

 by an Executive Council of nine members, and 

 there is a Representative Assembly of twenty- 

 nine members. 



The public debt amounted in 1885 to 48,- 

 626. 



There are eleven colonial custom-houses and 

 ports of entry in the Government of the Baha- 

 mas. 



Considerable quantities of pineapples, or- 

 anges, and sponges are exported, chiefly to 

 England and the United States. The pineapple- 

 crop is very precarious. The industry of salt- 

 raking has ceased to be remunerative, owing 

 to the high protective duties imposed on salt 

 by the United States. Cocoanut-planting is 

 carried on extensively. 



Bermudas. This group has an area of 19 J 

 square miles. 



By the census of 1881, the population was 

 14,314, of whom 5,384 were white and 8,564 

 colored, including 366 civilians employed at 

 naval and military establishments. 



There are 24 public schools attended by 

 1,091 pupils, and 94 private schools. 



The Governor, commander-in-chief, and 

 vice-admiral is Lieut.-Gen. Thomas Lionel J. 

 Gallwey. The Legislative Council and Ex- 

 ecutive Council are appointed by the Crown, 

 the Chief- Justice being President ex officio. 

 The Assembly, elected for seven years, is com- 

 posed of thirty members. The Consul for the 

 United States at Hamilton is 0. M. Allen. 



The Cambre Basin, on Ireland Island, is 

 a large, artificially constructed basin, with 

 strongly built piers. Here the famous float- 

 ing dock " Bermuda," the largest in the world, 



has been placed. The dock-basin is 62 feet 

 below low-water mark, 1,200,000 cubic feet of 

 sand and coral rock having been dredged. The 

 dock's dimensions are : 



Length over all . . 881 feet. 



Length between caissons 880 ' 



Breadth over all 128 feet 9 inches. 



Breadth inside walls 84 feet 



Depth over all 75 * 



Total weight , 8,840 tons. 



The islands raise early vegetables of unsur- 

 passed quality, chiefly shipped to New York. 



The revenue of Bermuda in 1884 was 28,- 

 564. 



The importations into Bermuda in 1884 

 amounted to 238,701. 



Jamaica. The extreme length of Jamaica is 

 144 miles, its greatest width 49 miles, and its 

 least width 21 i miles. The total area is 4,193 

 square miles, of which only about 646 square 

 miles are flat ; the rest of tlie island is mount- 

 ainous, the highest elevation above the sea 

 being the Blue mountain, Western Peak, 7,360 

 feet. 



The population in 1885 was estimated at 

 591,617. The census of 1881 showed a white 

 population of 14,432; coolies, 11,016; and 

 Chinese, 99 ; the remainder being colored. 

 By the census of 1881 the population of the 

 capital, Kingston, was 38,566 ; of Port Maria, 

 6,741; of Montego Bay, 4,651; of Spanish 

 Town, 5,689; of Falmouth, 3,029; and of Sa- 

 vanna-la- Mar, 2,498. 



The number of public schools had increased 

 from 286 in 1868 to 681 in 1884, and the num- 

 ber of pupils from 14,453 to 42,409. A Gov- 

 ernment scholarship of the annual value of 

 200, tenable for three years, is open to public 

 competition in each year by boys born in Ja- 

 maica. 



The Governor of Jamaica is Gen. Sir Henry 

 Wylie Norman, appointed Captain-General and 

 Governor-in-Chief, Oct. 23, 1883. The United 

 States Consul at Kingston is Francis B. Gal- 

 lery. 



On Sept. 30, 1884, the debt of Jamaica was 

 1,243,900. 



In Jamaica the revenue is raised at the rate 

 of 20s. 9d. per head of population ; in Trinidad 

 the rate is 60s. Qd. ; in Mauritius, 36s. 8d. ; in 

 British Guiana, 32s. Id; and in Guadeloupe, 

 38s. M. 



The new specific duties proposed to be 

 levied in the place of existing ones, and ex- 

 pected to yield 152,000 annually, are: On 

 lard, 4s. 2d. the 100 pounds; tallow candles, 

 6s. 3d. ; other candles, 16s. 8d. ; soaps, 4s 2d. ; 

 gunpowder for blasting, etc., 41s. 8d. ; gun- 

 powder for sporting, Is. per pound ; unmanu- 

 factured tobacco, 5d. per pound; manufact- 

 ured tobacco and snuff, Is. \a. ; cigars and 

 cigarettes, 8s. 4<Z. ; opium. 10s. 5d. ; matches, 

 per gross, 2s. 1^. ; fire-arms, per barrel, 4s. 2d. ; 

 lumber, spruce, and white pine, the 1,000 feet, 

 8s. 4:d. ; pitch-pine, 12s. Qd. ; shingles, cedar, 

 and spruce, 4s. 2<Z. ; all other, 6s. 3d. ; and 

 cement, per barrel, 2s. Qd. All other goods, 



