596 GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 



TABLE SHOWING REPRESENTATION OF THE VARIOUS DISTRICTS IN THE 



ASSEMBLY. 



Districts. Members. 



New Providence, City District 2 



New Providence, Eastern District 2 



New Providence, Soutliern District 2 



New Providence, Western District 2 



Harbor Isiand 3 



Eleutliera 3 



San Saivador 2 



Exuma 2 



Long Island 2 



Crooljed Island 1 



Watiings Island and Bum Cay 1 



Inagua 1 



Abaco 3 



Biminis and Grand Baliama I 



Andros Island 2 



Total 29 



In regard to the actual representation of these eleven districts, a state- 

 ment of Governor Carter is most significant : " I do not hesitate to say that 

 at the present time there is not suitable material in the Bahamas to make 

 29 members of a properly qualified Assembly representing the various islands 

 comprised in this Colony. In the last Assembly not a single Out-island 

 constituency was able to send its own representative, and it followed that the 

 whole of the members were recruited from the island of New Providence, 

 which in itself sends eight members to the Assembly." * 



The public debt of the Bahama Islands amounts to £104,926 Os. 2d. In 

 this connection it will be interesting to examine the following table, which 

 gives the total revenue and expenditures of the Bahama government for five 

 years : 



TABLE SHOWING REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOE THE 



YEARS 1898-1903. 



^^^^'- Revenue. Expenditure. 



£ £ 



1898 74,382 64,148 



1899 76,697 68,748 



1900 78,651 82,837 



1901-2 77,780 81,135 



1902-3 72,442 74,614 



In the next table will be seen a statement of the assets and liabilities of 

 the Colony on March 31, 1903: 



'Loo. cit., p. 13. 



