A reference to the table in the preceding page will show how much the colonial revenue has increased in 1833. I do not understand what the Parliamentary grant has been for, except it may be for naval, military, or clerical purposes; the colony of Nova Scotia is quite adequate to pay all its civil expenditure, and the crown, by Mr. Stanley's letter of the 30th September, 1833, has offered to surrender absolutely to the Assembly the disposal of the whole of the revenue, including the casual and territorial, viz.: the rent of the coal mines, the quit rents from lands, and the fees of public offices, on a consideration that a permanent civil list be granted to his Majesty for only two offices, viz.: the Lieutenant-Governor, salary 35007. and the Colonial Secretary, 10007. EXPENDITURE.-A Colonial Office manuscript gives the expenditure of Nova Scotia for eight years as follows: Years. Civil. Military Total. Years. Civil. Military Total. The distribution of this expenditure is—to the Governor and Colonial Secretary, 4500l.; to the Colonial House of Assembly, 30007., of which the members receive 12007. and the Speaker 2001.; the Attorney and Solicitor General, Treasurer, Sheriffs, Coroners, postage, &c. 27001. The Judges, 51507.; the Revenue Offices, 1500l.; Militia, 21507.; Roads and Bridges in 1828, nearly 30,0007.; (Schools and College, (see Education) 3300/.;) Loans repaid, and interest on debt various, sometimes 10,8007., in other years more. Lighthouses and other securities for navigation, 30007.-The foregoing is sufficient to show how the revenue is spent. MONETARY SYSTEM.-Accounts are kept in pounds, shillings, and pence. The coins in circulation are doubloons, eagles, guineas, sovereigns, dollars, shillings, and halfpence; the amount in circulation was supposed, in 1822, to be 250,000l.; and the paper circulation, in provincial or treasury notes, 62,1877. According to the report of the Commissioners appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor for the issuing and cancelling of province notes, there were in circulation, 1st January, 1832, 54,9997.; 31st December, 1832, 79,9997.; 31st December, 1833, 70,2997. The notes are in amount from 107. upwards. There are, I believe, two private banks; but I do not find, in the proceedings of the Colonial Legislature for 1834, any account of their circulation or deposits, as given under Upper and Lower Canada. SHIPPING. 57 The following shows the SHIPPING of the Colony: INWARDS. Year. Gt. Britain. British Col. Forgn.States. Total Inwards. No. Tons. No. Tons. 57534 No. Tons. No. Tons. 1826 98 23725 828 : OUTWARDS. Year. Gt. Britain. British Col. Foreign States. Tot.Outwards. 1833 104 25429 1398 96838 493 44875 2330 179956 Abstract of the Number of Vessels owned at the Out-ports of this Province, with their Tonnage, and the official Value of Imports and Exports of said out-ports, where there are custom-houses established * In 1807 the shipping entering Nova Scotia was not more than 25,000 tons; now it is upwards of a quarter of a million tons. 59 |