II. c xxii.,) " to prevent the Exportation of Hats out of any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America and to restrain the number of Apprentices taken by the Hatmakers in said Colonies" &c All such exported hats were declared forfeit; the exporter subjected to a fine of £500 and every Master, Mariner, Porter, Carter, Waggoner, Boatman &c aiding and assisting him became liable to a fine of Forty pounds; any officer of Customs passing an Entry for such Export was to be fined also jEoOO. No person was to make Hats in the Colonies unless he served seven years to the Trade & no master could take more than two apprentices. in this country as

This law continued in force

long as it belonged to Great Britain and is still applicable to the existing Colonies. exception above made in Gov. Tryon's Report. 2 Incorrect ought be 14,240. 3 Ought to be 182,247. :

This explains the

GOV. TRYON's REPORT ON THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK.

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The number of Inhabitants in 1771 as appears in No. 13 was abi^° By the returns in 1756 from which year to 1771 no Census was taken, the numbers appear "

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168,007

to have been

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83,233 -

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13,542 96,775

Which shews the Increase from 1756 to 1771 to be

71,232

Admitting the Increase for the succeeding three years to be no more than the average proportion of this number which is much less than the Proportion at which rated, there must be added for the Increase from 1771 to 1774