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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… their hands to the fortifications or submit to pay the sugar appointed by law, which being contempt of law to the … out of the common stock. That all persons making sugar pay their duties and levies in specie for the … for what is unpaid. That the Ministers have 12,000 lb. sugar or tobacco paid them annually out of the Public Stock. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 289.] April 4. 963. Minute upon the seizure of certain sugar passing from the French to the English in St. … news of Dutch ships coming from St. Eustatius loaded with sugar; that at Palmeto Point the guard showed them a mare laden with sugar which had been stopped half-an-hour before while going …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… was given in by the inhabitants upon a levy of 2 lbs. of sugar for every acre and 5 lbs. of sugar per head for every negro." (This return differs … negroes received and sold "to sundry persons for money and sugar at sundry prices," amounting in all (valuing sugar at …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and Assembly that John Hallett give two hogsheads of sugar to Captain Ashley, of H.M.S. Constant Warwick, out of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Sessions. (3.) The fine was called 150 pounds, whether of sugar or sterling was not specified. (4.) The verdict was …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… there to remain till the heavy penalty of 10,000 lbs. of sugar, provided by the Act, should be dischrged. There he … sworn at the return of the precept, forfeit 2,000 lbs. of sugar for the fortifications. [ Col. Papers, Vol. L., No. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… The Council and Assembly voted the Governor 100,000 lb. of sugar. The Assembly finding the public debt to be 236,680 lb. of sugar. proposed a levy of 250,525 lb. on all dutiable negroes … details to give you about a small English ship, laden with sugar, which I found in the hands of a Spaniard. I took both …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of cannon-powder and eight of pistol-powder at 800 lbs. of sugar per barrel. Address of loyalty voted to King James II. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… rule introduced by the King's collector for measuring the sugar exported, not by computation but by weight, for … The winds are fresh and the weather temperate, the crop of sugar, I believe, the largest ever produced in the Island. I … keep money in the country, and for advancing the price of sugar; in all of which they mistake the true interest of the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… not reply, but finally agreed to give him 100,000 lbs. of sugar within eighteen months, the grant not to become a … 1688 the Warners told us that they had large quantities of sugar by them, and that if they had freight they could load … Navigation. The commodity that they aim at particularly is sugar, which they can get from hence much better and cheaper …