IMPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES. List of articles imported into Sierra Leone from the United States, with value attached, during year ending December 31, 1883. [This list does not show the value of articles transshipped in Sierra Leone Harbor and not landed.] To the above amount of £31,060 11s. 6d. must be added £5,427 58. 114di, being the amount of American goods transshipped in the harbor of Sierra Leone and going to other points in the colony, thus saving wharfage of 3d. per cubic foot, making total imports £36,487 178. 5¿d. TOTAL IMPORTS, BY ARTICLES, INTO SIERRA LEONE. List of articles imported into Sierra Leone during the year ending December 31, 1883. Ale and porter Apparel.. Ammunition Bacon and hams Bags, empty Barn... Beads. £. 8. d. 2,186 9 7 4,286 9 10 157 8 3 276 14 9 3,286 10 6 36 4 2 3,984 0 7 ། ཞཀ་ Refined 490 15 6 10 5 0 35 26 49 15 9 388 0 7 32, 291 1 0 1,582 12 2 63 0 11 729 6 2 29 4 4 2,613 7 8 2,274 3 8 362 14 0 4,984 6 6 433, 580 13 7 392,928 6 5 32,868 19 6 57, 226 13 6 16,294 13 2 433,580 13 7 36, 487 17 5 Imports into Sierra Leone for the year ending December 31, 1883. Imports into Sierra Leone for the year ending December 31, 1883-Continuen. Exports of African produce from Sierra Leone during the year ending December 31, 1883. IMPORTS BY COUNTRIES. Recapitulation of imports at Sierra Leone during the year ending December 31, 1883. The above imports are taken from the customs report, but the declared imports from the United States, as given by the merchants from their invoices, is £36,487 17s. 54d., which is probably the best data, a little less than 10 per cent. of the total imports. The discrepancy is owing to transshipment of goods which do not appear in the customs report. EXPORTS BY COUNTRIES. Recapitulation of exports from Sierra Leone during the year ending December 31, 1883. The above statement is taken from customs report, and includes African produce and European goods re exported, but does not show produce transshipped and not landed in Sierra Leone; but the actual exports to the United States, as shown by the invoices on file in the consulate (which are really the correct figures), show the exports to the United States for year ending December 31, 1883, £39,746 12s. 1d., or $190,783.70, and this is all African produce, and is 13 per cent. of the total African produce exported, viz, £243,826 08. 8d., as shown in table. Imports. Customs revenue of Sierra Leone for year ending December 31, 1883. £ 8.. 36,205 8 9 Tonnage. Light Harbor Auction Warehouse rent. Treble shed rent Wharfage rent... Total..... |