What is the Trade of the Province, the number of shiping, their tunnage, and the number of sea-fearing men with y® 'yespective Increase or Diminution within ten years past ?

5. What Quantity & sorts of British a. do the 'Inhabitants annually take from hence ?

6. What. Trade 'has the Province under ye Governmt with 'any foreign Plantations or any part of Europe, besides Great

Britain, how is that Trade carried on, what commoditys do the "people under your: 'Government send to, or receive from foreign "plantations ?

'7. What methods are there used to prevent illegal Trade, and

'are the same effectual ?

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8. What is the Natural produce of the Country staple-Commoditys and Manufactures, and what vallue thereof in sterling money may you annually Export ? ;

9. What mines are there ?

10. What is the number of Inhabitants white and Blacks ?

11. Are the Inhabitants Increased or decreased within the last ten years, how much and for what reasons ?

12. What is the number of the Militia 2

13. What fforts and places of Defence are there within your Government, and in what Condition ?

14. What number of Indians have you and how are they inclined ?

15. What is the strength of the neighbouring Indians 2

16. What is the strength of your neighbouring Europeans ffrench or Spaniards ?

17. What effect have the ffrench or Spanish Settlements on the Continent of America upon His Majesty's plantations, especially on your province ? .