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Jufticc ; and for ads figned by public notaries, until the arrival 
of the CommifTaries General, when it was confiderably ex- 
tended. At prefent all bills of fale, receipts, petitions, and me- 
morials, muft be made out on ftamped paper. The limits of 
the ftamps are fixpence the loweft, and one hundred rix dollars 
or twenty pounds the high eft. 
The net proceeds of the colonial revenue for four fucceftive 
years will appear from the following table: 
Branches of the Public Revenue 
Year i 
798. 
Year 1799. 
Year I goo. 
Year iSoi. 
Rd. 
/■ 
fi 
Rd. 
fi- 
ft- 
Rd. 
fi- 
fi- 
Rd. 
fi- 
/ 
I. Land Revenue 
60,622 
6 
2 
40,720 
6 
4 
43.396 
2 
4 
47,885 
6 
4 
2. JJuties on grain i 
and wine levied at > 
36,867 
6 
0 
35.164 
2 
4 
3 '.93" 
I 
3 
i 37,759 
3 
0 
the barrier j 
3. Transfer duty on ) 
1 
67,483 
fales of innmovable > 
33.2H 
4 
2 
66,843 
3 
S 
47.576 
I 
3 
7 
0 
eftates j 
4. Duty arifing from 1 
Sale of buildings > 
5 
4 
5.677 
I 
3 
5.939 
I 
3 
5.247 
5 
I 
on loan eftates j 
5. Public vendue duty 
48,182 
3 
3 
59,916 
I 
2 
61,166 
3 
0 
85,960 
2 
6. Fees received in 1 
: 
the Secretary's Of- > 
1,654 
0 
0 
'»365 
6 
0 
I. '93 
3 
0 
1,312 
7 
fice J 
7. Cuftoms 
43.331 
4 
0 
42,828 
5 
0 
38,582 
4 
0 
47.833 
I 
8. Port fees 
2,186 
2 
c 
2,lOQ 
0 
0 
3.945 
4 
0 
5.498 
0 
9. Poftage of letters 
641 
S 
0 
950 
0 
0 
1,1 1 1 
7 
0 
1.396 
6 
10. Seizures,fines,and7 
10,182 
7.58J 
26,572 
Penalties J 
0 
1 
0 
3 
0 
0 
5.533 
3 
0 
II. Licences to retail! 
wine, beer, and fpi- 
36,295 
0 
4 
5', '33 
2 
4 
65,191 
5 
2 
93*200 
0 
0 
rituous liquors j 
12. Intereftoi: thecapi-T 
26,240 
tal lent out through > 
25.532 
6 
I 
25,678 
4 
2 
3 
25.957 
0 
the loan bank j 
13. Duty arifing from ? 
ftamped paper J 
18,403 
4 
0 
20,34.8 
6 
c 
18,751 
0 
0 
I 
0 
Amount R. D. 
322,51a 
7 
5 
360,312 
0 
0 
369,596 
4 
0 
450,7 '3 
2 
4 
or £. 
64,!; 02 
1 1 
1 1| 
72,062 
8 
0 
73'9'9 
6 
0 
90, 142 
'3 
4 
3 H 2 
Thefc 
