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conducted by the clergyman of the district assisted | by the School Committee. There are 200 schools, with 13,663 scholars (average attendance), and 23,140 on the rolls.

established on

Barbados possesses a college founded by General Codrington, a native of the island, who died in 1710, and whose name it bears. It was affiliated to It is under the Durham University in 1875. administration of the S.P.G., who are the Trustees of General Codrington's will. There are several theological scholarships of the value of 301. per annum from the College funds, and four Island Scholarships at 40l. per annum paid from the Colonial Treasury. The latter are confined to natives There is a good grammar or sons of natives. school, called Harrison College, in Bridgetown, an old foundation, which has been liberally supported by the legislature. It has a staff of 7 university men as Masters, a Professor of Chemistry and Agricultural Science, and a Professor of German. The average number of pupils is about 150. Another First Grade School," The Lodge," situated in St. John's parish, to the N.E. of the island, was re-opened in 1882, after having been closed for several years. The number of pupils at the close of 1887 was 37. There are four Barbados Scholarships, established by the Education Board, and endowed by the Colony, each of the annual value of 1751., tenable at Oxford or Cambridge for four years. Besides these scholarships there are grants in aid to the successful competitors for the Gilchrist scholarships of 751. each per annum for three years.

A first grade school for girls was opened in 1883, called the Queen's College. It has a staff of five mistresses and a music master. The number of pupils was 74 at close of 1888.

Police, &c.

A police force was established in Barbados in 1835 by an Act of the Legislature, and is stated to have been the first attempt in the British West India Colonies to establish a force of that description upon a similar footing. In 1882 the Harbour Police (established in 1867) were combined with the Land Police, and a Corps of Writ Officers added to the Force. A Juvenile Reformatory was opened in April, 1883.

A lunatic asylum and a lazaretto are kept up at the public expense: and there is a general hospital in Bridgetown, to the support of which the colony contributes 6,630l. per annum.

Constitution.

The colony possesses representative institutions, but not responsible Government. The Crown has only a veto on legislation, but the Home Government retains the appointment and control of public officers. The Government consists of a Governor, a Legislative Council, consisting of nine members appointed by the Queen, and a House of Assembly, having twenty-four members elected annually on the basis of a moderate franchise. The qualification of members and electors are regulated by a Franchise Act, which became law in April, 1884, and which repeals all previous legislation on the

subject. By this Act a liberal extension of the franchise was granted, and about 4,200 electors are registered under its provisions, the number previous to its enactment being only 1,641. The executive part of the Government consists of the Governor, Officer commanding the troops, the Colonial Secretary, the AttorneyGeneral ex officio, and such other person as is nominated by the Queen, one member of the Legislative Council, and four members of the House of Assembly nominated by the Governor. This body is called the Executive Commitee, and The introduces all money votes, prepares the estimates and initiates all Government measures. Governor of Barbados was for many years the Governor-in-Chief of the Windward Islands, consisting of Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, and Tobago, but in 1885, by Royal Letters Patent, Barbados was separated from the other Windward Islands, and made a distinct Government.

Import Duties.

The Customs Tariff Act, 1889.

Butter, margarine, oleomargarine, and
their compounds, the 100lbs,
Candles the 100lbs
Cement the barrel

Cheese the 100lbs.

Coal and the mixed preparations thereof,
and coke, the ton
Cocoa, the 100 lbs.
Coffee, the 100 lbs.

0 71

150

3

2

0

2

02

0 1 0 0

o 24

.

0 0 042

01

0.10 0 200 4 2

Cordage (except twines) the 100 lbs.
Corn and grain, unground, the 100 lbs.
Firearms, each
Fish dried, salted or smoked the 112 lbs.
Fish-pickled, the barrel
Flour-wheat or rye, the barrel
Indian-meal or other kinds, the barrel
Horses, under 134 hands high, each.
Horses, all others, each
Lard, the 100lbs.

LIQUORS

Malt liquor, cider and perry in wood,
the cask 64 gals.

Malt liquor, cider and perry in bottles
(reputed quarts) the dozen
Spirits and cordials (except rum and

0 18 9

0 131

gin and perfumed spirits to be
used as perfumery only) the gallon 0 7 6
Gin and rum, for every gallon below

or equal to proof by Sykes'
Hydrometer

Wine Sparkling, per gallon
Wine-all other kinds, per gallon.
Matches-Lucifer and other kinds, the
gross of 21 dozen boxes, each box to
contain 100 sticks

.

Meat-salted or cured, the 100lbs.
Copper, yellow metal, or composition
nails, bolts, bars, rods, sheets, spikes
and rivets, the 100 lbs.

Iron hoops, bars and rods the 100 lbs.
Iron nails, spikes, rivets, and clinches,
the 100 lbs.
Lead-sheet and pipe-the 100 lbs.

050

0 06

.

0 0 111

010 50

042 0 0 4

.

010 010

enumerated. Logwood, machinery to be used for the reaping or manufacture of sugar, manure, metals-old iron and old lead, molasses, cars and sweeps, packages in which goods are imported except new trunks, vats, hogsheads and puncheons, passengers' baggage containing apparel and articles of personal use and professional apparatus, patterns and samples of no intrinsic value, personal effects of individuals belonging to this Island dying abroad, pozzolano, rags, raw hides and skins, salt, sawdust, soda water and mineral water, specimens illustrative of natural history, seeds, bulbs, and roots, and cutting of plants or shrubs of all kinds, spars, sugar, raw or Muscovado, sugar, crystallised vacuum pan, tablets and tombstones and all the appurtenances thereto, imported specially for immediate erection and not for sale on certificate of the person for whom imported, tar, pitch, and resin, turtle and tortoise shell unmanufactured.

There are no export duties.

The total Customs revenue in 1888 was

88,7361.

SHIPPING ENTERED AND

pine, and spruce, the 1,000 feet superficial measurement of one inch thick

FINANCES.

CLEARED.

Hoops, whether coiled or straight, the 1,200 pieces

£

£

All other kinds, except in naves, felloes, spokes, and unsquared posts, the 100 cubic feet

Shingles of all descriptions, the 1,000 Staves, white and red oak, whether loose or made up in bundles or shooks, the 1,200 pieces.

Oxbows, the dozen

Truss Hoops, the set of nine

All other articles not particularly enumerated or particularly exempted to pay 8 per cent. ad valorem.

Exemptions from Duty.

0

0

0

601

0

1886 136,286

136,628 841,791

916,242 163,489 154,610 880,199 1,028,388

3

1880

444,818

209,411 516,506

1,170,735

or for public institutions.

215,379 469,993

1,119,212

All articles specially imported for the use or decoration of any place of worship and not imported for sale.

Asphalt, blubber and heads and offals of fish,
bones and horns, books, forms, and papers
(whether printed or manuscript), maps, charts,
school globes, engravings, music, pictures, sta-
tues, and other works of art, bottles of glass or
stoneware-empty, bullion coin, and diamonds,
calves, sucking and foals, cassaripe, cattle, cocoa-
nuts, cotton wool, eggs, fresh fish and turtle, Year.
fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh meats, fuel-
wood and charcoal, gravel, sand, soil, earth, and
peat, green ginger, hay and straw, hoesticks,
horses brought into the island by esquestrian
companies, provided the same are taken away by
them on leaving, and racehorses on every oc-
casion after the first importation thereof, pro-
vided no drawback had been claimed thereon on
exportation.

Hulls, boats, masts, spars, apparel, tackle and
furniture of vessels condemned by survey, and
on which tonnage duty shall have been paid, ice,
leeches, lemon and lime juice, lime-building and
temper-and limestone, live and dead stock-not

1885

J. B. Massiah, N. F. Stokes, M. J. Berkeley, and Registrar in Chancery, Robert Haynes (fees 8257. in E. P. Boyce, 2007. each.

Junior Res. Surgeon, C. Bowen, M.D., 2007., and Treasury, at a salary of 2001. each, and most of