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90 A. D, 1796. 



Tlie duties oh the tunnage of vessels, and the customs on the Imports *, of 

 the whole United states amounted 



in the year 1795 to 5,679,418 dollars, 



and in 1796 to 6,567,987. 



By the laws of the United ftates, veflels arriving from the Cape of 

 Good Hope, or the countries beyond it, mufl enter at fome one of the 

 following ports, and at no other. 



Portsmouth in New Hampshire ; 



, Portland, Falmouth, Salem, Beverley, Gloucester, J Massachusets bay ; 



Newbury port, Boston, y 



Newport, Providence Rhode island ; 



New London, Newhaven, ... 4 Connecticut ; 



New York, New York ;, 



Perth-Amboy, New Jersey; 



Piiiiadelphia, Pennsylvania ; 



Wilmington, • Delaware ; 



Baltimore, Annapolis, Georgetown f , Maryland ; 



Alexandria f , Norfolk, Virginia ; 



Wilmington, New Bern, Washington, Edenton, North Carolina ; 



Charleston, Georgetown, Beaufort, South Carolina ; 



Savannah, Sunbury, Georgia. 



Thus the Eaft-India trade is, or at leaf!: may be, difFufed over the 

 whole continent. 



In the year 1792 the congrefs eftabliflied a mint, wherein the follow- 

 ing kinds of money are coined. 



In gold eagles of the value of ten dollars, 



half eagles and quarter eagles ; 



In silver dollars,"and halves, quarters, tenths, and twentieths, of dollars ; 



In copper .... cents, which areworth the hundredth part of a dollar,andlialf cents. 



In all the ftates accounts are kept, as formerly, in pounds, fliillings, 

 and pence ; but the value of the currency differs confiderably in the 

 feveral ftates. The value of a dollar and a guinea in each ftate gives a 

 clearer view of the value of money in it than a compariibn with Britifti 

 money at a rate per cent, which fluctuates according to the demand for 



■^jjlJg^ Dollar Guinea. 



In South Carolina and Georgia O 4 S 1 I Q 



New Hampshire, Massachusets bay, Vermont J . . . . o 6 O 

 Rhode inland, Connecticut, Virginia, Kentucky 5 



New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland O 7 6 



New York, North Carolina O 8 O 



For the fake of uniformity the public accounts are kept in dollars, 



and cents, which is by much the moft convenient numeration of money 



in countries where dollars conftitute the bulk of the current fpecie. 



* The American ftates impofe no duties upon Virginia are comprehended in the federal diftrift of 

 exports. ICoxe's rie-u of the Umlcd fates, f.^G<)^ Columbia, which fa annexed to the new city of 

 ft Georgetown in Maryland and Alexandria in Wafliington. 3 



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