Valuation of Exports and Imports from Quebec in 1811, viz. Exports in Grain, Flour, Timber, Lumber, Ashes, &c. in Furs in Seals, Swans, and Castorum in Articles imported and re-exported in 12,688 Tons, new Ships, at 15 Disbursements for Provisions, Ships Stores, and repairs of 532 Vessels Goods not dutiable, supposed £.962,250 7 10 In 1806, there was 1,400 tons of shipping built in Canada; in 1807, 2,300; in 1808, 3,700; in 1810; 5,837; in 1811, 7,800. Generally speaking, all the shipping that clears into the country, with a very few exceptions, clears out. Portugal, Spanish, and other Wines, from Great Britain, per tun Sterling. 1 20 006 2 19 9 700 0 10 0 07 0 003 [Rum, from Colonies in America Brandy, or other foreign Spirits, imported from Britain Rum, or spirit, the produce of Colonies in America, not under the Molasses, in British bottoms Ditto, in any other Additional Duties laid on by the Provincial Parliament. Acts 33. Geo. III. cap. 8.-35 Geo. III. c. 9. and 41 Geo. III. c. 14. Foreign Brandy, or other foreign Spirits, per gallon Rum, per gallon Molasses and Syrups, per gallon Madeira Wine, by one act 4d. and by another 2d. Other Wines, by one act 2d. by another 1d. Loaf, or Lump Sugar, per lb. Muscovado, or Clayed Sugar, per lb. Coffee, per lb. Leaf Tobacco, per lb. Playing Cards, per pack Salt, per minot Snuff, per lb. Tobacco, manufactured in any other way Duties imposed by a Provincial Act, for building Gaols, to continue Six Years, fom the 25th March, 1805. 002 0 0 4 0 0 6 0 0 4 003 Spirits, or other strong Liquors, per gallon Wines Molasses and Syrups Goods sold at auction, 24 per cent. on amount of sales. 6. Allowances at the Custom House. Deduction of Weight. 0 0 3 002 the e. bank of the river Grand Mitis, on the s. side, is not subject to duty. There shall be drawn back, at the Custom House, 4d. on every On coffee, in bales or bags, 3 lbs. for every bushel of salt exported from the port of Quebec, in casks, 12lbs. ditto. Loaf sugar, in casks or boxes, 15 lbs. per cwt. Leaf tobacco. in casks, 12 lbs. per cwt. Leakage on wines, spirits, and molasses, 3 gallons on every hundred. For waste of articles, subject to duty by weight, an allowance of 3 lbs. on every hundred pounds. On salt, an allowance of 3 minots per hundred. The import duty on salt is 4d. per minot. Salt landed below the e. bank of the river Saguenay, on the n. side of the St. Lawrence, and below VOL. IV. to any place beyond the above limits; 7d. on every tierce of salmon; and 4d. on every barrel of salted beef or pork, or salted fish of any sort, exported from this province. 7. Post Office Regulations. At the beginning of every month a packet sails from Falmouth for N. America, having on board a mail for Quebec. In the summer months she puts in at Halifax, in her way to New York, and there delivers the mail for Canada. From Halifax they are forwarded by land to Quebec. In the months of November, December, January,] and February, the packets pass Halifax, and deliver the mails for Canada, to the agent for British packets at New York, who forwards them through the United States by post to Montreal. A mail for England is dispatched from Quebec once every fortnight in summer, and once a month in winter, to be sent by first packet for England. A mail for Burlington, in the United States, is made up at Quebec every Thursday, and at Montreal every Saturday, by which conveyance letters may be sent for Europe, under cover, to a friend at New York, on paying the Canadian postage. The post for Montreal leaves Quebec every Monday and Thursday, and leaves Montreal for Quebec on the same days. Post arrives at these places on Wednesdays and Saturdays. A monthly communication, by post, between Lower and Upper Canada, has been lately opened. 8. Official Declaration as to the Boundaries of the River St. Croix. Thomas Barclay, David Howell, and Egbert Benson, commissioners appointed in pursuance of the fifth article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, finally to decide the question, “What river was truly intended under the name of the river St. Croix, mentioued in the Treaty of Peace between his Majesty and the United States, and forming a part of the boundary therein described." DECLARATION. We, the said commissioners, having been sworn impartially to examine and decide the said question according to such evidence as should respectively be laid before us, on the part of the British government and of the United States, and having heard the evidence which hath been laid before us by the agent of his Majesty, and the agent of the United States respectively appointed, and authorized to manage the business on behalf of the respective governments, have decided, and hereby do decide the river hereinafter particularly described and mentioned, to be the river truly intended under the name of the river St. Croix, in the said treaty of peace, and forming a part of the boundary therein described; that is to say, the mouth of the said river is in Passamquoddy Bay, at a point of land called Joe's Point, about one mile n. from the n. part of St. Andrew's Island, and in lat. 45° 5' 5" n. and in long. 67° 12′ 30′′ w. from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, in Great Britain, and 3° 54′ 15′′ e. from Harvard College, in the University of Cambridge, in the State of Massachusetts; and the course of the said river, up from its said mouth, is n. to a point of land called the Devil's Head, then turning, the said point is w. to where it divides into two streams, the one coming from the w. and the other coming from the n. having the name of Chiputnatecook, or Chibnitcook, as the same may be variously spelt, then up the said stream so coming from the n. to its source, which is at a stake near a yellow birch-tree hooped with iron, and marked S. T. and I. H. 1797, by Samuel Titcomb and John Harris, the surveyors employed to survey the abovementioned stream coming from the northward: and the said river is designated on the map hereunto annexed, and hereby referred to as further descriptive of it by the letters A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. K. and L.; the letter A. being at its said mouth, and the letter L. being at its said source: and the course and distance of the said source from the island, at the confluence of the above-mentioned two streams, is, as laid down on the said map, n. 5° and about 15', w. by the magnet about 48 miles. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals, at Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, the 25th day of October, in the year 1798. (Witness) Thomas Barclay, (L.s.) David Howell, (L.S.) Egbert Benson, (L.s.) Edward Winslow, Secretary to the Commissioners. For some other memorials, petitions, and official documents, relative to the British colonies in N. America, see NEW BRUNSWICK, PASSAMAQUODDY BAY, and NOVA SCOTIA; also the articles CANADA, UNITED STATES, and W. IN DIES. QUEBRACHO, a small river of the province and government of Buenos Ayres, which runs s. s. w. and enters into another, just before this runs into the Uruguay. QUEBRADA, a settlement of the province and government of Darien, and kingdom of Tierra Firme; situate near the river Pirri, and the coast of the S. Sea. QUEBRADA, another settlement, in the province and government of Maracaibo, and Nuevo Reyno de Granada, which is the district and jurisdiction of the city of Merida; n. n. w. of this city, in the road which leads to Santa Fé. QUEBRADA, a river of the provinces and go |