D° 407.14.6. From this State of the Civil List of the Province it appears that there is even this year a surplus beyond the whole Expence of supporting the Government, and it was heretofore very considerable. This Ballance has always been either borrowed in exigencies or applied by particular Laws to special uses.

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The Annual account of Quit rents agreable to the list of Patents in the Receiver General's office is in Sterling

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£1806.

7.

18,888.16.10 The arrears of Quit rents agreable to the list in the said office amounts to The above sums are as near as can be computed, the price of Wheat, Skins, Lambs, and Pease

differing every year.

The following sums are paid out of the Quit Rents on the Kings warrants directed to the Receiver General.

To the Honourable Robert Cholmondely the auditor General of the Plantations To George Clarke Esq. Secretary of New York on two warrants for his salary and Incidents To the Secretary for Indian Affairs To the Receiver General's Salary To the Honourable Robert Cholmondeley a Commission of £5 per cent for all monies received on auditing the accounts. The Incidental charges of the Receiver Genls Office

£100

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STATISTICS OF REVENUE, IMPORTS, EXPORTS, ETC.

The owners of Lands in this Province have ever been so backward in the Payment of their Quit Rents that the sum collected annually has never been sufficient to pay off the above mentioned salaries, and some other orders which were formerly granted to different