The following account of the expenditure on the settlement for the year 1749, was submitted to Parliament by the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations:
| Blankets, Woolens and Shoes for settlers, and presents for
Indians | £1,325 | 4 | 8 |
| Supplies for Fishery, Surveyor's Instruments, Bricks and Garden
Seeds | 2,729 | 12 | 9 |
| Lighterage and Shipping Settlers, package and charges of Hospital
Stores, etc. | 336 | 0 | 3 |
| Medicines, Sugar, Live Stock, Drugs, Instruments, etc., for
Hospital | 680 | 14 | 8 |
| French Bibles | 102 | 17 | 10 |
| Cash paid for Victualling Settlers | 12,068 | 5 | 6 |
| Treasurer of the Navy's account for Bedding and Victualling
during voyage | 7,354 | 19 | 0 |
| Ditto on account of Sarah, Transport, from Liverpool | 67 | 18 | 8 |
| Treasurer of the Ordnance account for field pieces, swivel guns,
small arms and powder | 3,592 | 4 | 4 |
| Printing and incidental expenses by directions of the Lords of
Trade | 445 | 19 | 10 |
| Ventilators for 6 Transports | 102 | 11 | 0 |
| Two Fire Engines | 72 | 16 | 0 |
| Bill to Capt. Ives for a Boat | 40 | 0 | 0 |
| The Treasurer for Weights and Scales | 21 | 7 | 0 |
| Thomas Handcock, Esq. | 1,528 | 15 | 6 |
| Pay of Surgeons, Apothecaries and Midwife, exclusive of what
they received at Halifax | 860 | 0 | 0 |
| To Transport Service for conveying settlers to Nova Scotia | 23,672 | 1 | 3 |
| Fees thereon | 147 | 19 | 9 |
| Fees on money received from the Exchequer, exclusive of the
sums charged on the foregoing articles | 473 | 4 | 6 |
| To Freight, Bed, Bedding and Cabins for 514 passengers on
board the Alderney, Nancy, Fair Lady and Two Friends,
Transports, and incidental expenses attending embarkation,
etc., etc. | 3,144 | 4 | 4 |
| To expenses repairing and fitting Sloop, New Casco | 833 | 19 | 6 |
| Gratuities 322 Foreign Protestants from Holland | 338 | 2 | 0 |
| Cash paid on account of Victualling settlers | 4,500 | 0 | 0 |
| Cash to Treasurer of Ordnance for Bills drawn by Governor | 1,000 | 0 | 0 |
| To Governor Cornwallis for the purchase of stores, payment of
officers, package of stores, artificers and laborers, and contingent
expenses, exclusive of £2,500 paid to his regiment
for the four pence stopped for provisions to 11th Sept., 1750 | 35,268 | 0 | 2 |
| Lieut. Martin's disbursements at Boston, for materials, vessels
and stores | 6,503 | 18 | 2 |
|
To Apthorp & Handcock, disbursements at Boston, for materials,
vessels and stores | 6,924 | 14 | 6 |
| Thos. Gunter's Bills remitted him at Boston, on account of
Expedition to Chignecto | 2,600 | 0 | 0 |
| Benj. Green, Treasurer, by his account from Sept. 20, 1750, to
Nov. 30, 1750 | 3,621 | 14 | 0 |
| Richard Bulkley, Paymaster of Works, from 1st August, 1750,
to Nov. 30 | 4,073 | 16 | 3 |
| To hire of Transports retained in the service and not paid by
the Navy | 4,002 | 2 | 4 |
| To Foreign Settlers employed in public works at 12d. per day,
till the money advanced is thereby reimbursed | 1,005 | 0 | 0 |
| To Col. Phillips' (now Cornwallis') Regt., to return deductions
for provisions to Christmas, 1750 | 3,919 | 5 | 8 |
| To provisions supplied Cols. Warberton's and Lascelles' Regts.,
Artillery Company, Independent Companies, seamen in
vessels, laborers and artificers | 17,832 | 3 | 8 |
| Victual and transporting Lascelles' Regt. from Ireland | 8,581 | 3 | 9 |
| To Office of Ordnance for Timber, Materials and Tools sent from
Annapolis, hire of vessels, magazine of powder and payment
of officers and artificers employed by the Board | 10,417 | 15 | 3 |
| £173,838 | 2 | 3 |
Cr.
The charge for contingencies, and the last charge of £10,417 15. 3., probably embrace the expenditure on Government buildings—the two churches of England, St. Paul's and St. Matthew's; also the fortifications and other government works then in progress.