171 PART IV. 



DESPATCHES, REPORTS, CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 



No. 1. 1790: Table of Fees taken by Customs Officers, as presented 

 to the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia. 



N. B. Open boats bringing wood, roots and other produce of the 

 Province to this Port pay no fees. 



No. 2. 1793: Memorandum submitted to the Committee on the State 

 of the Trade to Newfoundland, by Richard Routh, the Collector of 

 Customs at Newfoundland. 



The Custom-house at Newfoundland was originally applied for by 

 the trade, but was not established until the year 1762. Mr. Hamilton, 

 the first Collector, went out, but found the people and climate so disa- 

 greeable, and the emoluments so inadequate to his expectations, that 

 he returned to England the same year, and resigned; when Mr. Alex- 

 ander Dun was appointed to succeed him : this gentleman, finding no 

 regular fees established, had recourse to the port of Halifax, in Nova 

 Scotia, for their list, agreeably to the Act of the 5th of His present 

 Majesty's cap. 45, section 27, which recites, " and if no fees have been 

 received as aforesaid, by any Officer in any port in such colony or 

 plantation, such Officers shall, from and after the 5th day of July 

 17G5, be entitled to such fees as have been received by the like Officers 



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