thereby may appear within the Queries signifyed time what the Increase or Diminution respectively differenceth; Therefore upon comparing which it'l be thus considerate, that ;

the first is somewhat more than the other.

As to the Shipping which at present belong here, the Number whereof is 157, the tons for registry 6406 & Navigated with 1228 men of Sea Employ, and for the preventive method of which happening illicite here, such prescribed in the principal Laws and aptly made use of, whereby to effect the same as contrary thereto so that upon any Breach ;

carefully inquired after by the Deputed Officers, process is issued against the like in the Vice Admi-

TRADE AND MANUFACTURES OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK. ralty, or sometimes in the Courts of Record holden hereat, for

recovery of the subjected Penalty on

the Committed fraud & abuse.

What is the natural produce of the Country, Staple Commodities and Manufacture, and what

Qre.

Value thereof in Sterliug Money may you actually export 1 Ansr.

The production and Manufacture is that the people in the Country here for many years &

yet have their home spun, so termed, of Flax and Wool to supply themselves somewhat with necessaries of Clothing &c.

That for thirty four years or thereabouts, have been raised Linseed & mil'd

into Oil, Hats, made of beaver Furs, their Exportation prohibited by the act from Michaelmas 1730, also the working of Lampblack.

That for nineteen years, Sugar baking and its refining in order to