(c) By Arret of August the 30th, 1784.
(d) By Arret of 1788.
(e) By Arret of 1760.
(f) Taken from the Custom House returns of the United States.
(g) There is a general law of France prohibiting foreign flour in their islands, with a suspending power to their Governors, in cases of necessity. An Arret of May the 9th, 1789, by their Governor, makes it free till August, 1794; and in fact it is generally free there.
(h) The Arret of September the 18th, 1785, gave a premium of ten livres the kental, on fish brought in their own bottoms, for five years, so that the law expired September the 18th, 1790. Another Arret, passed a week after, laid a duty of five livres the kental, on fish brought in foreign vessels, to raise money for the premium before mentioned. The last Arret was not limited in time; yet seems to be understood as only commensurate with the other. Accordingly, an Arret of May the 9th, 1789, has made fish in foreign bottoms liable to three livres the kental only till August the 1st, 1794.
(i) The port charges are estimated from bills collected from the merchants of Philadelphia. They are different in different ports of the same country, and different in the same ports on vessels of different sizes. Where I had several bills of the same port, I averaged them together. The dollar is rated at 4s. 4½d. sterling in England, at 6s. 8d. in the British West Indies, and five livres twelve sous in France, and at eight livres five sous in the French West Indies.
Several articles stated to be free in France, do in fact pay one-eighth of a per cent., which was retained merely to oblige an entry to be made in their Custom House books. In like manner, several of the articles stated to be free in England, do, in fact, pay a light duty. The English duties are taken from the book of rates.
(k)
| Dollars. | ||
| The exports to Great Britain and Ireland, are | 6,888,978 50 | |
| How much they consume, I know not. They certainly re-export the following: | ||
| Dollars. | ||
| Grain, the whole since the law of the last parliament | 1,093,885 | |
| Tobacco, five-sixths, according to Sheffield's tables | 2,295,411 | |
| Rice, five-sevenths, according to same | 552,750 | |
| Indigo, one-third, according to same | 315,887 | |
| Furs, probably one-half | 17,950 | |
| Ginseng, the whole | 32,424 | |
| Mahogany,} not being of our productions should also be deducted | 16,724 | |
| Wine, } | 4,425 | |
| 4,329,456 00 | ||
| Remainder, including their consumption and the unknown re-exportations | 2,559,522 50 | |