| The value of exports to Port Elizabeth, in 1831, from Table Bay, was | £44,672 |
| Value of imports, in return, from Port Elizabeth | 34,640 |
These sums not being included in the above statements, must be added to the aggregate of these ports respectively. Since April, 1832, Cape Town and Simon’s Town have been declared “free warehousing ports;” and Port Elizabeth was declared a “free port” only—all goods of every description whatever, the growth, productions, or manufacture of Great Britain, or any of the possessions of the British crown, pay a duty of three pounds per centum. All goods being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any of the East India company’s possessions, pay ten pounds per centum. Any foreign nation, at peace with Great Britain, may import, in foreign ships, any goods, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of such foreign nation, ten pounds per cent., and they may export any goods to any country, &c. All casks, barrels, staves, heading, or hoops, to be used as wine casks, duty free.
No gunpowder, arms, ammunition, or utensils of war, or fresh or salted beef, pork, dried or salted fish, train oil, blubber, fins, or skins of creatures living in the sea, can be imported, except from Great Britain, or some British possession in America. No tea can be imported, except by the East India company, or some British possession in America.
Accounts are kept in pounds, shillings, pence, and farthings, or rix dollars, skillings, and stivers. One stiver is equal to three eighths of a penny; six stivers, two and one fourth, or one skilling; eight skillings, eighteen pence, or one rix dollar. Three shillings and ninepence is the par value of the Spanish dollar, but they were sold by the purser of the Peacock at four shillings; and doubloons, at sixteen dollars, or three pounds four shillings. Bills on England were three shillings and eleven pence sterling per dollar.
The weights made use of in this colony, are derived from the standard pound of Amsterdam, and the pieces permitted to be assized, are from fifty pounds down to one loot, or the thirty-second part of a pound, which is regarded as unity.
Proportions between colonial and British weights and measures. Weights: ninety-one pounds and four fifths, Dutch, are equal to one hundred pounds English, avoirdupois. Measures: corn, four Dutch schepels are equal to one Dutch muid, one hundred and seven ditto, to eighty-two.
Winchester bushels. A load of ten muids is equal to thirty bushels, two pecks, one gallon, and one pint English; eight bushels make a quarter English.
One ell of cloth is equal to twenty-seven Rhynland inches; one hundred and thirty-three, fifty-one hundredths, Dutch ells, are equal to one hundred English yards.