i so HISTORY OF THE [book hi. 
and £. 105,000 more, expended in Great Britain in 
the payment of freight, duties, commissions, fees 
of office, and other claims and deductions.* 
From the net money paid into the exchequer, 
the governor general of these islands receives a sa~ 
Jary of j£. 1,200 sterling, exclusive of the several 
sums granted him by the colonial assemblies,f and 
I believe that salaries are allowed from the same 
fund to the lieutenant-general, and the several lieu¬ 
tenant governors. I have been informed too, that 
the governors of the Bahama and Bermudas islands 
are likewise paid out of this duty. The balance 
which remains, after these and some other deduc¬ 
tions are made, is wholly at the king’s disposal. 
But it is impossible not to observe, that almost 
all the islands within this government, as well as 
Barbadoes, have been, for many years past, pro¬ 
gressively on the decline ; and it is there tore pro¬ 
bable that the present net produce of this duty is 
•not more than sufficient to defray the several in¬ 
cumbrances with which it is loaded. The negroes 
Indeed have been kept up, and even augmented. 
* Some years after this, a new mode of collecting the duties was, 
I believe, adopted, which rendered the tax more productive to go¬ 
vernment. 
f These grants are as follow: Antigua and St. Christopher’s 
£.1,000 currency each. Nevis £.400. Montserrat £.400. Virgin 
Islands £.400. The usual rate of exchange is 165 per centum. 
These sums therefore, added to £.1,000 sterling, paid out of the ex¬ 
chequer, make his whole salary £.3,000 sterling per annum. 
