I 1721-1725. AN ABSTRACT of the whole Amount of the Duties of the Several Commodities hereunder mentioned, from 5th June 1721, until the 5th Day of June 1725 inclusive. £3436.16.6 £5183.16.9 £2546.17. 6 £750.7.6 £1152.15.3 £352.14. 5 AN ABSTRACT of the Several Branches of His Majesty's Revenue for support of Government in the Province of New York. [From the same.] .... £3825.6.101 From the 20th April until the 1st October 1726, (5 months).. GENERAL ACCOUNT of the Receipt of moneys, granted for the support of the Government of New York from 1st Sept. 1740, until 1st March 1741. [From the same.] Receipts, 1st Sept. 1742 to 1 Sept. 1743. £5392.9.3 A GENERAL STATE OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS IN THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK, AND THE USES TO WHICH THEY ARE APPLIED. 1767. [Lond. Doc. XL.] Divers sums have been raised by different Acts of Assembly. We have an Act to lay a Duty of Tonnage on Ships, but the money is applied to sink certain Bills of Credit. Another for licencing Hawkers and Pedlars but it will expire soon revived; and a third, commonly called the Duty Act. and not be This last raises the money and for support of Government; it was passed the 12th Dec. 1753, and was limited to a year, but is annually continued. Tis entitled, "An Act for granting to His Majesty the several Duties & impositions on Goods, wares and Merchandizes imported into this Colony, therein mentioned." The Dutiable Articles are Slaves, Wine, Cocoa, Rum, Brandy, Shrub, and other distilled Liquors, and European and East India dry goods, from the British Islands. The annual produce of the Duty Act for ten years past stands, as digested from the Journals of the Assembly to whom the Province Treasury accounts yearly. The last years amount being 4811.8.11 is in Sterling at the usual Exchange of £180 per cent.. £2673. 0.6 For Fuel and Candles for Fort George.. 2000 400 To the Chief Justice of Salary & Riding the Circuit.. 300 To 3 puisne Judges each £200 600 To the Door Keeper of the Assembly each Day 68 suppose 50 days... 15 To the Gunner & Store keeper of the Colony'sStores.. The Light house was erected in the year 1764. A Duty of 3d. P. Ton was laid on the Tonnage of Ships for maintaining it which produced the first year £487.6.9. & the expenses were £431.8.6. 1. The second year 415.16.1. Do 407.14.6. From this State of the Civil List of the Province it appears that there is even this year a surplus beyond the whole Expence of supporting the Government, and it was heretofore very considerable. This Ballance has always been either borrowed in exigencies or applied by particular Laws to special uses. The Annual account of Quit rents agreable to the list of Patents in the Receiver General's office is in Sterling The arrears of Quit rents agreable to the list in the said office amounts to £1806. 7. 9 18,888.16.10 The above sums are as near as can be computed, the price of Wheat, Skins, Lambs, and Pease differing every year. The following sums are paid out of the Quit Rents on the Kings warrants directed to the Receiver General. To the Honourable Robert Cholmondely the auditor General of the Plantations... £100 To George Clarke Esq. Secretary of New York on two warrants for his salary and Incidents 60 To the Secretary for Indian Affairs. .................................................. 100 200 To the Honourable Robert Cholmondeley a Commission of £5 p. cent for all monies received on auditing the accounts....... The Incidental charges of the Receiver Genls Office The owners of Lands in this Province have ever been so backward in the Payment of their Quit Rents that the sum collected annually has never been sufficient to pay off the above mentioned salaries, and some other orders which were formerly granted to different people by the Lords of the Treasury. AMOUNT OF THE VALUE OF THE IMPORTS AND EXPORTS FROM AND TO NEW YORK, FOR THREE YEARS FROM 1717, TO 1720 Total Export of the three last years,..... Total Export of the three preceding years,.. Exceeded in the Total Exports of the three last years,... Which at a Medium has been an Anʼual Increase in ye Exports... £ s. d. 50.788.10. 6 57.889.15.10 54.838. 9. 8 163.516.16. 0 54.505.12.0 £ s. d. 163.516.16.0 156.719.19.5 6.796.16.7 2.265.12.21 An account of the Value of Furrs imported from New York for Total of the three last years 22.537.14. 1 Excess of the 3 first years.. 2.792. 8. 8 Medium,.... £ s. d. 6.659.4.11 7.045.3.10 8.833.5. 4 22.537.14.1 930.16.21 AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANNUAL AMOUNT OF THE IMPORTS AND EXPORTS FROM AND TO NEW YORK, FROM CHRISTMAS 1723 TO CHRISTMAS 1728. NUMBER OF NEGROES IMPORTED FROM 1701-1726. AN ACCO't of what Negro Slaves have been Imported into his Majesties Province of New York as taken from the Custom House Books between the year 1701 & this present year 1726. • Entered from the Coast of Africa but found afterwards to have been from Madagascar. |