The w hole produce of the Excise Fund before the passing of this Law usually amounted to about £1450 per annum. r

Question No. 20.

What are the ordinary and extraordinary Expences of Government? Answer.

by the Province to the Officers of Government, ordinary Ex-which exclusive of the Salary of the Governor now paid by the Crown, amounted in 1773 " " " " £3120 2 vernraem. °"tO the SUm of and will continue nearly the same while the salaries remain on the present footing.

The ordinary Expences are the

Sallaries allowed

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The Extraordinary Expenses of Government are the allowance for the necessaries Extraordinar Expenses.

witl1

which

am0 Untmg to

tlie

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Troops quartered in the Colony are furnished usually

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2000 .-- .--

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And the Expences arising from the settlement of the Boundary Lines of the Colony, Repairs to the Fortifications & the Governors House, Carriages and Utensils

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for Guns, Barracks &c. which in the year 1773 amounted to

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For payment of^Expresses and other small contingent articles of Expence there annually allowed

1807 .11.4|

is -

100.

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Question No. 21.

What are the Establishments Civil & Military within your Government and by what Authority do office Civil & Military, how are they the Officers hold their Places, What is the annual value of each Possessors? present are the who and respectively [appointed Answer.

The Civil Establishments in this Province consist Civil Estabiishmems.

either of the Officers

whose

salaries are paid