chap, iv.] WEST INDIES, 181 
of sixteen hundred weight, 1,107 puncheons of 
rum, and 275 bales of cotton. The exports of 
1787, and their value at the London market, will 
be seen in a table annexed to this chapter. They 
are produced by the labour of one thousand three 
hundred whites^ and about ten thousand negroes. 
The government is administered in this, as in the 
other islands, by a legislature of its own, under 
the captain general. The council consists of six 
members, and the assembly of eight, two from 
each of the four districts into which it is divided j 
and the proportion wdiich Montserrat contributes 
to the salary of the captain general is J?.4C)0 per 
annum. 
