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mate, (including freight, charges, and merchants 
commissions, and adding a proportional part of the 
cost of many expensive articles, such as coppers, 
stills, wain-tyre, grating-bars, &c. which would 
perhaps be wanted once in five years) to the sum 
of £.85 0 sterling. To this sum are to be added 
the following very heavy 
Charges within the Island; viz. 
Currency. 
Overseer’s or manager’s salary - - 200 
Distiller’s ditto - - - 70 
Two other white servants, £.60 each 120 
A white carpenter’s wages - - 100 
Maintenance of five white servants, ex¬ 
clusive of their allowance of salted pro- 
i visions, £AO each - 200 
Medical care of the negroes, (at 6s. per 
annum for each negro), and extra cases 
which are paid for separately - 100 
Mill-wright’s, coppersmith’s, plumber’s, 
and smith’s bills, annually - - 250 
Colonial taxes, public and parochial - 200 
Annual supply of mules and steers - 300 
Wharfage and storage of goods landed 
and shipped - 100 
American staves and heading, for hogs¬ 
heads and puncheons, - - - 150 
A variety of small occasional supplies of 
different kinds, supposed - - 50 
Equal to £. 1,300 sterling; currency £. 1.840 
