Vermicelli and maccaroni, per lb. . naval stores and supplies for the use of Her Majesty's military and naval forces. chargers imported by officers for the proper discharge of their military duties, articles of personal and horse equipment necessary for the performance of military duty, horses, mules, and other draft animals imported or purchased for the Commissariat Department, wines and other liquors for the use of naval messes; all articles for the use of the Governor and the public service. For the manufacture of sugar and other products, apparatus called "Double Effet" and Triple Effet" and its accessories, asses, bags and bagging, boilers, and boiler coating, cane shoots of galvanized iron or of other metal, carts, chemicals, or their compounds, coolers, animal charcoal, cultivators, empty casks, centrifugals, diffusion batteries, electric lighting machines, engines, machines, and machinery, by whatever force propelled, and all tools specially connected therewith, engine packing, filter bags and filter bagging, filters for using animal charcoal, fire bricks and fire clay for furnaces or steam boilers, furnace, and fire bars, grubbers, harrows, horse hoes, horse rakes, iron buildings, lime, temper, locomotives, manure, mills, mules, oxen, pans (sugar, vacuum, &c.), pipes and piping, whether for steam, water, or cane juice, ploughs, polariscopes, rails and other articles imported for construction of tramways or railways, agricultural rollers, shooks and staves, stills, trucks, trusshoops, tube expanders and scrapers, wagons, wire rope for cane carriers, wood hoops. NOTE. The parts or accessories of any of the above named articles shall also be exempt from duty. Wines, including medicinal wines, cordials, liqueurs, arms and ammunition, clocks and watches, confectionery, furniture, hulks, and materials of vessels, perfumery, fancy soap and Sugar, per 100 lbs. powder, silver plate and plated ware, preserved meats, preserved fruits, jewellery, 20 per cent. ad valorem. Inner packages in which goods are put up are charged the same ad valorem duty as the goods. In the case of goods liable to a specific duty, packages 10 per cent. ad valorem. All other articles not enumerated above, 15 per cent. ad valorem. Exemptions (Miscellaneous articles). Bells for churches, schools, and plantations bulbs and roots of flowering plants or shrubs. bullion, cards (christmas, birthday, and New Year). not imported for sale; coals and coal baskets, coin and diamonds, fresh fish, fresh fruit, hay, ice, machinery for coasting steamers. fresh meat, poultry, packages in which goods are imported, except new trunks, that is, the outer packages in which goods are packed for importation, and not including the inner packages in which goods are put up. Such inner packages, when containing goods liable to ad valorem duty, to be liable to the same duty as the goods contained in them, and on such inner packages when containing goods liable to a specific duty, a duty of ten per cent. ad valorem to be levied when the cost is stated in the invoice; passengers' baggage; wearing apparel and other articles in the actual use of the passenger. Patterns and samples imported exclusively as such. plants of all kinds, family portraits, printed books, including music, maps, and copy books, but not including receipt books, bill-heads, and forms; professional apparatus of passengers, seeds, sewing machines, specimens illustrative of natural history, mineralogy, and geology, straw, telegraphic and telephonic apparatus, fresh vegetables, general, military, or Export Duty. Excise Duty. Rum, and other spirits, per gallon (25 And 14d. for every degree over 25. The total Customs revenue collected in 1888 was 21,5131. SHIPPING ENTERED AND FINANCES CLEARED. Expendi ture. British Total Tonnage. Tonnage. 356,931 421,990 43,738 375,645 431,073 44,114 392.640 435,428 43,598 452,496 498,354 43,174 437,063 504,074 Civil Establishment. Administrator of the Government and Colonial Secretary, R. B. Llewelyn, C.M.G., 8007. and 200/ table allowance. Chief Clerk, Government Office, J. B. Cropper. 2301. 2nd Clerk, T. F. Meagher, 100. Treasury, Customs, and Inland Revenue Department. Treasurer and Comptroller of Customs, D. G. Garraway 4007., and 1007. for Savings Bank. Chief Clerk, H. H. Mitchell, 2007. 2nd Clerk and Checking Officer of Invoices, C. H. Hunter, 100/. 3rd Clerk, Victor Girard, 751. Chief Landing Waiter and Revenue Officer, E. W. Lord, 2007. and fees. 2nd ditto, E. L. Richardson, 1257. and fees. 3rd ditto, and Keeper of Spirit Warehouse, A. La Corbiniere, 135l. Landing Waiters and Revenue Officers, C. F. Gilkes, H. Pasea, E. Evelyn, H. G. Walcott. A. W. W. Palmer (acting), 1001. each and fees, and 251. each horse allowance when attending distillery. Harbour Master's Department. Harbour Master and Pilot, Harry Gamble, 250%. Postal Department. Postmaster, F. St. A. Reece, 180%. Public Works and Survey Departments. Colonial Engineer and Surveyor, H. Reeve. 300, and 501., and 8s. a day when travelling, for horse keep. Clerk (provisional), E. H. P. Didier. Judicial. Chief Justice (vacant), Arthur Child (acting), 7001. Assistant, ditto, Alex. Myers, 501. 1st District, W. Low, 4007. 2nd ditto Thomas H. Dix, 3507. 3rd ditto John W. Elliot, 3501. Clerks to the Magistrates and District Courts:- 2nd District, A. F. Palmer 1007. 3rd ditto E. S. Blanchard, 1007. Colonial Trustee (vacent), A. Clavier, acting, fees. Medical, Colonial Surgeon, Chas. Dennehy, 4007. Police and Gaols Inspector of Police, Commander Jukes Hughes, R.N. (retired), 250, and 1007 allowance. Keeper of Royal Gaol, Timothy Bartlett, 150%., and quarters. Immigration. Protector of Immigrants, Robert P. Cropper, M.A., Ecclesiastical. Anglican Minister of Holy Trinity Church, Rev. J. Roman Catholic Vicaire Foraine and Curé of Foreign Consuls. France, Charles Chastanet. United States of America, William Peter. ST. VINCENT. Situation and Area. The Island of St. Vincent was discovered by Columbus on the 22nd of January, 1498. It is situated in 13° 10' N. latitude, and 60° 57' W. longitude, at a distance of 21 miles to the south-west of St. Lucia, and 100 miles west of Barbados, It is 18 miles in length, and 11 in breadth, and contains about 85,000 acres of land, of which only about 13,000 acres is in cultivation. Some of the Grenadines, a chain of small islands lying between Grenada and St. Vincent, are comprised within the government of the latter island. The principal is Bequia, situated at a distance of 9 miles from the mainland. General Description. At the time of its discovery, St. Vincent, like some of the other small islands, was inhabited by the Caribs, who continued in the undisputed possession of it until 1627, when the King of England In 1660 it was declared neutral, and in 1672 it was made a grant of the island to the Earl of Carlisle. granted to Lord Willoughby. No steps, however, appear to have been taken to form a settlement on the island, and the English and French came to an agreement to abandon the Islands of Dominica and St. Vincent to the Caribs, on condition of their renouncing all claim to the other islands. The Caribs continued sole masters of St. Vincent until the year 1675, when a number of savages of a different race were discovered on it. These received the appellation of "Black Caribs," to distinguish them from the aborigines, to whom the name of "Yellow Caribs" was given. In 1722 George I. made a grant to the Duke of Montague of some of the West India Islands, including St. Vincent. From statistics of the year 1740 it appears that the white inhabitants then amounted to about 800, and the slaves to 3,000, producing commodities for exportation to the value of 63,6251. In 1748 St. Vincent was declared neutral by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. In 1756, however, hostilities were renewed, and the island was taken in 1762 by General Monckton; and by the Treaty of Paris in the following year it was ceded to Great Britain, when General Melville was appointed Governor. By a treaty, which was concluded in February, 1773, an extensive district of St. Vincent was alin a state of open rebellion) on condition of their lotted to the Caribs (who for some time had been laying down their arms and acknowledging the King of Great Britan as the rightful sovereign of the island. In 1779 the island surrendered to the French. The following year has been rendered memor by the occurrence of the greatest hurricane of which there is any record in West Indian annals, By the Treaty of Versailles in 1783, St. Vincent was restored to Great Britain. Kingstown, the capital of St. Vincent, is situated at the bottom of an extensive bay, at the south-able western extremity of the island. It consists of three principal streets, each about a mile long, running parallel with the beach, and contains a population of 5,593 souls. It is a port of registry, and had on 31st December, 1888, 31 vessels, of 746 tons. St. Vincent, though exhibiting some features in common with the other islands, is favourably distinguished from many of them by an undulating surface, and a succession of gentle slopes, of which portions are cultivated for sugar-cane. Its most striking peculiarity is its "Souffrière," or volcanic mountain, celebrated for the violence of its eruption in 1812. This mountain is situated at the northern extremity of the island, and is about 3,000 feet above the level of the sea. From this period to the breaking out of the French Revolution the island appears to have enjoyed comparative prosperity and peace; but then the Caribs and their allies (the French) again overran the country, burning the cane-fields, plundering the houses, and mercilessly murdering the English colonists. This state of things continued till the arrival of the "Zebra" sloop of war, with succours from Martinique, then the British head-quarters. The contest was carried on, with alternations of good and ill fortune, until the arrival of Sir Ralph Abercrombie with reinforcements in June, 1796. After an obstinate struggle the in The whole island is of volcanic origin. A back-surgents surrendered at discretion. The Goverubone of densely wooded mountain traverses it from north to south, sending off spurs on each side. The highest peak is Morne à Garou, 4,000 feet high. The streams are small, except after heavy rains; the principal is the Kingston river, ment, in anticipation of such an event, had resolved that the Caribs should be transported to the Island of Rattan, in the Bay of Honduras; and accordingly, on the 11th March, 1797, the necessary transports having been provided, the Caribs, to the number of 5,080, were embarked at Bequia, and sailed for their appointed destination. In 1834 the apprenticeship system was established, and was followed in 1838 by unconditional emancipation. The year 1846 witnessed the first introduction of Portuguese labourers, a class of immigrants who amounted in a few years to 2,400, and have proved a valuable addition to the general population of the island. St. Vincent received its first cargo of Coolie labourers in 1861. There are about 2,000 of these immigrants at present located on different plantations in the island. Constitution. The Government of St. Vincent originally consisted of a Governor, Council, and Assembly. The Council consisted of twelve members, one half of whom were named in the Governor's Comuission, and the remainder appointed on his recommendation. The Assembly was composed of nineteen members, including two for the Grenadines. In 1856 an Executive Council was created, consisting of ten members, five from the Legislative Council, and five from the Assembly. In 1859 this Council was re-modelled, with the addition of an Administrative Committee, selected by the Governor, and composed of three members, one from the Legislative Council, and two from the Assembly. This Act of 1859 had, however, a duration of only five years. The constitution, however, was found no longer suited to the altered circumstances of the Colony; and in 1867 the Legislative Council and House of Assembly were abrogated, and a single Legislative Assembly was created instead thereof. This Assembly was composed of 12 members, viz. :three ex officio, three nominated by the Crown, and six elected by the people. The number of electors registered for the year 1874 was only 388. But this constitution also was abrogated by an Act of the Local Legislature (confirmed by an Imperial Act, 39 and 40 Vic., c. 47), by which the future modelling of the constitution was left to the Crown. By an Order in Council of the 7th of February, 1877, the Legislative Council now consists of four official and four nominated unofficial members. The several courts of the Colony were by an Ordinance of the Local Legislature passed in 1880, consolidated into one court, styled the Supreme Court of Judicature. The Chief Justice of the Colony is the sole Judge of this court. There are, one Government school, 23 Anglican, 17 Wesleyan, and 3 Roman Catholic schools, with 5,128 children on the rolls, and an average attendance of 3,410. There is also a grammar school, which receives a grant from the Government. The Government expenditure on education in 1888, including grant to grammar school (507.) and salary of inspector (507.) was 1,688. A savings bank was established in 1866, and had 833 depositors, with 10,318/. deposited, at end of 1888. All and every sort and description of goods, wares, and merchandise not above enumerated and not exempted, 10 per cent. ad valorem. Exemptions. Asses, swine, goats, sheep, horned cattle, cocoa; building lime; bullion, coin, and diamonds; ice, fresh meats, fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, and poultry; machinery intended to be worked by water, wind, steam, cattle, or horse powers: stills and apparatus thereto belonging, and sugar taiches and clarifiers; manures; specimens illustrative of natural history; seeds, bulbs, and roots of flowering pants, and shrubs; pictures, music, manuscripts, Year. and printed books and papers (not including unused account books or printed forms or labels or paper hangings); baggage, apparel, and professional 1879 apparatus of passengers; supplies imported for the use of Her Majesty's army and navy or full-pay officers all articles imported solely for building, repairs, or use of or in any church or other edifice set apart for Christian public worship; all imported by or for the Officer administering the Government of this Colony for his own use; all imports for the Colonial Government. 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 338,404 347,303 1888 231,103 239,157 |