WEST INDIES. 



water- where tin- tide ebbs and How-. ami up to 

 an. I including tin- line of ordinarv high wain 

 within ilir hunks of all na\ i| 

 lakes : /'/'/,/,,/. 'I'liat this section .shall not !* 



o debar any ]M r-i.n from 



ing his claim to vested rights in || M . courts of tin; 



Hut Judge Hanford, in a decision of the 



court at Tacoma. decided ihat the tide land- are 



OWIled I IV till' I'llilrd Stair- (i<.M-r|||IH-J|t, alid 



not by thr Slate uf Washington. 



Vnul Station. A nrw I'nited State- naval 

 Station Was established at 1'ort Orchard in Sep- 

 tember. One hundred and forty five acre- have 

 been taken by the Government, afid additional 

 land will probably lie ac<|iiired. 1'reliininary 

 surveys and borings for the construction ..|' a 

 dry dock were made. The ollicial nuine i- 

 Sound Naval Station. 



KST INDIKS. The inlands of the (ireater 

 and Lcs.-er Antilles, with the exception of the 

 SpanNi colonies of Cuba and 1'uerto Kico and 

 the island of llayti occupied liy the two I. lack 

 repulilics. are dependencies of' (ireat liritain, 

 Denmark. France, and the Netherlands. 



Jamatfa. The island of Jamaica is a partly 

 self-govern ins British colony, having a Legislative 

 Council presided over l>y llic (iovernor. in which 

 i) ineiniiers are elected 5 are nominated by the 

 Crown and 1 are oilicial. The present (lovi-mor 

 i- Sir Henry Arthur P.lake. The area of Jamaica 

 i- -l.lii:! sqiiare miles, and the population in l^-IM 

 was (Ui'.Uiil. Dependencies of the colony are 

 Turk's and Caicos islands, with an area 

 square miles and 4,778 inhabitants, and Ca/.man 

 islands, with an area of 225 square miles and 

 ~, 100 inhabitants. Kingston, the capital, lias 

 about 40,(MH) inhabitants. Jamaica in 18H1 had 

 1 I. !::,> white inhabitants, 109,946 of mixed blood. 

 -lll.lsi; negroes, and about 12,000 Chinese and 

 Indian coolies. The revenue in 1889 was <ji;it.V 

 000 and the expenditure 646,000, as estimated 

 in the bud-ret. Then- is a debt of .U.5S8. The 

 imports in isxi were valued at 1,598,000 and 

 the exports at f i .oi .-..ooo. The tonnage entered 



and cleared was I.I )?,">,( II 10 tons exclusive of 

 coa-ters. There are !:' miles of railroad and r.jis 

 miles of telegraphs. The number of letters that 

 were sent through the post-oflice in 1HH8 was 

 1,408,453. The commerce is chielly with (Jn-at 

 Britain and with the I'nited States. The new 

 commercial treaty admittinjr Jamaican snjrar 

 and colTce froe into the I'nited States is favor- 

 able to the development of trade with American 

 ports, as G3 articles of American produce and 

 manufacture are by it< terms admitted f: 

 duty and I'-' others at reduced rale.-. American 

 cars and locomol ives and many articles of ordi- 

 nary consumption have already di-placed Hritish 

 manufactures. The values of the leading exports 

 in 1888 were a* follow: Coffee, x I. :,:,:,. TI;'.I : log- 

 wood. Sl.TdM.'JC.'i; raw BQgar, $1^05,805 ; banana^. 

 l.:WO.n.-j2; mm, $97!.7rJ: ..ran-es *:!i::.n|r, : 

 pimento, $21G.4H;{: jiinp-r. !?94.'Jixi. 



Looward Islands. The irroiip. which is di- 

 vided into ~> pre.-idencie<. is under control of u 

 (Jovernor. at present Sir William Frederick 

 Ilaynes Smith, who i- a--i-ted by an Kxecutive 

 Council and ;i Fc<|eral Le^i-lativo Council eon- 



VUffto UluMb. 



Aani 



Antigua. . . 



' 



!)!! 



Tout. 



44 



M 



. 



tt jar 



MJ44 







1.1;. 



sistinirof 10 elected and 10 nominated 



The areu of llie islands and their population in 



1881 were as follow ; 



t In ML 



There were about .',.000 while, 28,000 colored, 

 and JM.ooo l)la<-k InhabiUnti in IH.M. In mart 



of the i.-hind- stipir and mla>-M n 



produotA In ;' me, fruit f,'ro; ning. 



Other produc's are -alt and j i 



The trra.-ury in the N'ir^in 



2,000 and dnbnned an equal MUH ii 



imports were valued at t"S.OOO ai.d tin- .-xj-^rtH 



at l'}.(H)(). Tin- revenue of Si. KiM'-anr 



was 1 J.}().(KX) and cxpcndi" 



1-17N.OOO; exp r >*to. AiuijriiH had a 



revenue of I'^i.lMK) and ini|>orU<l men hai.. 



the valueof 10(5,000, while the export- amotiiH.tl 



7,<MK). In Montserrat tl.e 



(MM); the imports were valued a! (.^"..(MXi and the 

 xpor: - MOO. Hominiea Imd 



<f L^M.O(M); imjMirts, 57.0OO ; . 17.000. 



The public debt of tlu-c ci.|, (: reated 



from 80^19 to I1>1,G:}1 during th- 

 that year. In 1MM there was a totiil failure of 

 food crops in Aiifruilla, owin^ to drought. 



>Viiidanl l-lands Th Windward croup 

 has a common (iovernor. Sir NV. F. llolv-Ilutc-h- 

 iiixin. but no federal le;i-lati 

 colony has an administrator and a IJegi* 

 Council, the members of which . 

 persons nominated by the Crown, (ireiiuda. with 

 an area of 1 (Hi square miles and a jMipulution m 

 the beginning of 1M" l.lHil 



coolies, had a revenue of ir.0.000 iin d l.-.l.lNKIof 

 expenditures in ls v !. The imp. 

 1 174.000 and the -\p. r> to I!:H;.INNI. 

 Vincent, with an area of 147 -<,uan- milen and 

 -I7.!i:::: inhabitants in 1S!MI. had a n-v, nn,- . : 

 000. while the (li-bur>eiiu-n: 

 import- were l'!i.s,(MK> and the exp-.rt- flW.OOO. 

 St. Lucia is 'J.'!7 -ouare mile- in extent atid con- 

 tains 4.'Ui8T> inhabitants. The 



I; disbur- .KI: 



imiM.i- 00; i-xports. I'l ;-,'.( N HI. Sugar. 



rum. cacao, pine-apple-, and otln r fruits, spkfw, 

 logwood, cotton, roller, arrow -r''t. and t 

 are among the product-. Cotton and euffee have 

 to -om<- extent displaced -ugar-nmr. 



Bahamas. Tin- area of 

 square miles. The poi.iilatioii in 1SM w~ 

 r>(NI. The white population in '- 

 Nassau, the .-apital. has A.OOO inlmbitants. The 

 (iovernor i- Sir Ambi 



ulive Council and a I^'gi-latr 

 each of memlwrs. ami llnre i< a ]A^ ~ 

 'ly of 'J!l memU-r- r|.< tnl under a 

 property limitation bv p..puUr Miff: 

 revenue in 1 HJ.OOO iid .:lurr 



I-J^.IHHI. i,, 1800 th rerei ">-* ml 



expenditure 48,888. TI.-n-..- 

 <*MI. The im|H,rts w,-re \a! ni.OOOmnd 





 showed an increase of 88 per wnt. and ib* ex- 



