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The following table exhibits the receipts and expenditure of 

 the colony for a series of years, and at different periods : 



It will be remarked that the receipts and expenditure for the 

 two years 1852 and 1853 are unusually large. But the special 

 receipts and expenditure on account of immigration were not 

 then kept separately, as at present, but formed part of the general 

 revenue and expenditure. This is the explanation of this other- 

 wise inexplicable difference. Should we, therefore, add to the 

 receipts of the year 1855 the special immigration receipts, amount- 

 ing, as per statement published by order of the governor, to the 

 sum of 30,846, we would then have a total of 103,169. As 

 regards expenditure, I may observe that items defrayed, in those 

 years, from the general funds, are now paid by the wards say a 

 sum of about 6,000, for roads, hospital relief, education, &c., 

 which, together with a further sum of 14,674 paid on account of 

 immigration, would increase the expenditure of 'the same year 

 (1855) to the amount of 101,331. 



If we add together the expenses incurred during the six years 

 1851 to 1856, we have a grand total of 593,019 against 566,902, 

 being amount of receipts during the same period. Excess of ex- 

 penditure over receipts, 26,117. 



In the year 1831, the principal items of taxation were: 

 Exports (3J- per cent, ad valorem), 15,000; imports (at the 

 same rate, except British linens, cottons, and cod-fish), 8,000 ; 

 poll-tax on slaves, 10,000 ; house-tax, 2,500. The civil 

 establishment then cost 10,000; the judicial, 7,000. The 

 civil establishment now costs 13,374 ; and the judicial, 10,185. 

 In order, however, to come to correct conclusions regarding 



