This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...support of puhlic instruction 2,000 Duty on soap and to-bacco.... 56,480 266,300 62,260 EXPENDITURE. CROWNS. For divine worship and the church in general.... 24,000 Public instruction. 560 Governor's salary and the support of troops 34,000 Magistrature... 1,900 Support of public of ces and the salaries ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...support of puhlic instruction 2,000 Duty on soap and to-bacco.... 56,480 266,300 62,260 EXPENDITURE. CROWNS. For divine worship and the church in general.... 24,000 Public instruction. 560 Governor's salary and the support of troops 34,000 Magistrature... 1,900 Support of public of ces and the salaries of custom house officers.... 1,800 62,26a 204,040 If, under such an accumulation of disadvantages, with scarcely a third of its soil in cultivation, St. Michael's will yield this clear profit to the government, --what, in the name of conscience, might it not do when, free and unfettered, it could display its gigantic powers and develop its abundant resources?--when, with the existence of the forementioned proposed ports, it might command the commerce of the opposite shores of the Atlantic? Unhappy Lusitania! when will you rouse from the sleep of ages, and profit by the lavish bounties of a beneficent Providence! On the 12th the city was plunged into a general scene of tribulation by the death of young Count Calharis, the eldest son of the Marquis (now Duke) of Palmella. All festivities ceased; the Admiral's ball was postponed; and the promised day of rejoicing became one of sorrow; for, independent of the generality of the highest and most respectable of the Portuguese nobility, then at the island, being connected either by consanguinity or marriage to the Duke or his amiable Duchess, there was a general feeling of sympathy, on the part of English as well as Portuguese, in favor of the sorrowing father--who has every where made himself respected, beloved, and admired, by the many excellent qualities that distinguish both his head and heart. In our passage from Belle Isle I had the gratification of enjoying much of the Duke's society, which...
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