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by equal labour, or by produce, which is rated 

 as underneath. 



And in order to prevent disputes respecting 

 the payment, these agreements, as well as all 

 others, are entered in a book kept by a person 

 for that purpose, and properly witnessed. 



Average prices of provisions raised on the 

 island, either for sale, for barter, or in 

 payment for labour. 



PLENTIFUL ARTICLES. 



Fresh pork, % 6d. per lb. 



Pickled ditto, 8d. 



Wheat, from 7s. 6d. to 10s. per bushel. 



Maize, from Is. 6d. to 5s. 



Potatoes, from Is. to 3s. 6\1. per cwt. 



Full-grown fowls, from 6d. to Is. each. 



Ditto ducks, lOd. to Is. 3d... each. 



Ditto turkeys, 7s. 6d. each. 



SCARCE ARTICLES. 



Geese, 10s. each. 



Female goats, 8l. each. 



Goal's flesh or mutton, to government, 9<1. 



per lb. 

 Ditto, to individuals, Is. 6d. ditto: 



N. B* When the latter is taken into the 

 stores for the sick, it is issued as 5 lbs. of mut- 

 ton for 7 lbs. of salt beef stopped in the stores ; 

 by which method government does not pay 

 more than 6d. per lb. as for fresh pork* 



