And, in order to prevent disputes respecting the payment, these agreements, as well as all others, are entered in a book kept by a person for that purpose, and properly witnessed.

AVERAGE PRICES OF PROVISIONS RAISED ON THE ISLAND, EITHER FOR SALE, FOR BARTER, OR IN PAYMENT FOR LABOUR.

Plentiful Articles.

Fresh pork 6d per lb
Pickled ditto 8d
Wheat from 7s 6d to 10s per bushel
Maize from 1s 6d to 5s
Potatoes from 1s to 3s 6d per cwt
Full-grown fowls from 6d to 1s each
Ditto ducks 10d to 1s 3d each
Ditto turkeys 7s 6d each

Scarce Articles.

Geese 10s each
Female goats L8 each
Goats’ flesh or mutton to government 9d per lb
Ditto to individuals 1s 6d ditto

NB When the latter is taken into the stores for the sick, it is issued as five pounds of mutton for seven pounds of salt beef stopped in the stores; by which method government does not pay more than six-pence per pound as for fresh pork.

ACCOUNT OF GRAIN RAISED BY THOSE EMPLOYED IN CULTIVATING GROUND
FOR THE PUBLIC USE; AND THAT RAISED BY OFFICERS, SETTLERS,
AND OTHERS, ON NORFOLK ISLAND, FROM THE 6TH OF MARCH 1788
(WHEN IT WAS FIRST SETTLED) TO OCTOBER 1796.

Year By whom Quantity Bushels of maize
                             raised of maize and wheat purchased
                                       and wheat from individuals
                                       in bushels for the public use

From March 1788 to May 1789 government 46
                            individuals 10
May 1789 to May 1790 government 450
                            individuals 50
The lieutenant-governor was absent this year
From May 1791 to May 1792 government 1688
                            individuals 391 40
May 1792 to May 1793 government 4549
                            individuals 6900 36101/2
May 1793 to May 1794 government 6000
                            individuals 28,676 11,688
May 1794 to May 1795 government 3300
                            individuals 14,000 none. 
May 1795 to May 1796 government 1803
                            individuals 11,500 389

ACCOUNT OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS FROM NOVEMBER 12TH, 1791,
TO SEPTEMBER 31st, 1796.

Births
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Civil 10
Military 3
Convicts 178
Total 191

Civil 1
Military 4
Convicts 94
Children 38
Total 137

From 1 month to 2 years 38 have died
     2 years to 18 2
    18 to 30 36
    30 to 45 30
    45 to 65 31
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Total 137