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clandeftlnely on board for that purpofe ; a& it was prefumed 
that the intention was to convey it out of, though he afterwards 
difpofed of it in, the colony. The fcntence of the co\irt was 
reverfed in the Court of Appeals, and the money ordered to be 
reftored ; but the captain, not fatisfied with the decifion of the 
Court of Appeals, without recovering, at the fame time, large 
damages, intends to bring his ailion before a Britifl-i Court in 
England. 
Of all feizures and confifcatlons, and penakles for mifdemea-- 
nors, the Fifcal receives one-third of the amount, the informer 
or profecutor one-third, and the other third, which was for- 
merly the fhare of the Governor, was direded by Lord Ma- 
cartney to be always paid into the Government Treafury in aid 
of the revenue. 
II. The licences granted for the retailing of wine, beer, and 
fpirituous liquors, are farmed out in lots to the higheft bidders ; 
and they produce a very confiderable fum to Government, pro- 
portioned, however, to the ftrength of the garrifon, the foldiers 
being their beft cuftomers. Sir James Craig, wifhing to difcour- 
age, as much as poffible, all monopolies, propofed to divide the 
retailing of wine among 32 perfons, but fifteen only were found 
to take them out ; and thefe the following year refufmg to re- 
new, it became neceffary to recur to the old method, to prevent 
the revenue from fuffering, as well as the diforders that mighc 
be fuppofed to arife from an unreftrained liberty of fale. It 
was, however, found difficult to get any one after this to under- 
take the farm on the moft moderate terms. Such is often tiie 
effea 
