The Annual Amount of the Commodities exported from hence to Foreign Countries is on an average, Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling and the Foreign Imports on an Avevalue of For- ® ne eignExpons rage 0ne Hun(ire(i Thousand Pounds Sterling. ;

Besides the Trade to the Foreign Ports in Europe, there is every year a great Quantity of Flax seed

and Lumber and some Iron sent to Ireland, in ships generally belonging to that Kingdom which come out annually with passengers and Servants, as also Linen, Beef and Butter.

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The Province hath likewise some Trade with Gibralter and Minorca, the Cargoes out generally conAs they sist of Grain, Flour, Provisions of other Kinds, Lumber, Naval Stores, and Rice. „ " To „ Gibralter ,

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and Minorca.

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are British Ports, it has ever been the practice here to allow enumerated Goods to be shipped to them, the Master of the vessel giving the enumerated Bond at the Naval Office. are Specie, Bills of Exchange and Salt.

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Question No. 10.

What Methods are there used to prevent illegal Trade, and are the same effectual ? Answer

At

this

Port there is generally one of His Majesty's Ships of War, stationed near its principal

Four Winter Months, when she is obliged on account of The Custom House Officers the severe Weather and the Ice to come to the Wharf. viz. The Collector, Comptroller, Surveyor, and Searcher, Land Waiter, are Eight in Number There is also a Naval Officer. The Tide Waiters are Tide Surveyor and Three Tide Waiters mostly employed on Board of Vessels that arrive with dutiable goods, so that there are but three other out door officers to look after the business of a very extensive Harbour, lying on two sides of the Town, which is situated on a point between two large Rivers.