Money expended by the government for the pay and subsistence of the civil and military establishments, and for the support of such of the convicts as are victualled from the king’s stores, L 80,000 Money expended by shipping not belonging to the colonial merchants, L 12,000 Various articles of export collected from the adjacent seas and islands, by the colonial craft, consisting principally of seal skins, right whale, and elephant oils, and sandal wood, L 15,000 Wool grown in the colony, L 8,000 Sundries, L 20,000
          
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Total L125,000
          
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The imports levied by the authority of the local government form two distinct funds, one of which, as has been already casually mentioned, is called the “Orphan Fund,” and the other “the Police Fund.”  The former, it has been seen, contains one-eighth of the colonial revenue, and is devoted solely to the promotion of education among the youth of the colony; the latter contains the other seven-eighths, and is appropriated to various purposes of internal economy; such as the construction and repair of roads and bridges, the erection of public edifices, the maintenance of the police, the cost of criminal prosecutions, and the pay of various officers, principally in subordinate capacities, who are not borne on the parliamentary estimate of the civil establishment.  These two funds amounted in the year 1817 to the sum of L20,272 6s. 21/2d. which was derived from the following sources: 

Duties collected by the naval officer,  17,240  0  71/4
Market, toll, and slaughtering duties,      872  5  71/4
67 Spirit Licences,                       2,010  0  0
10 Beer ditto,                               50  0  0
4 Brewing ditto,                            100  0  0

Total L20,272 6 21/2

[* For a list of these Duties, see the Appendix.]

If we add to this L907 6s. 91/4d. which is the amount of the naval officer’s commission on the duties collected by him, we have a grand total of L21,179 12s. 113/4d.; or, in other words, about one-sixth of the whole income of the colony, absorbed by an illegal taxation.  This is an enormous sum to be levied in such an infant community; and it will appear the more so if it be recollected that nineteen-twentieths of it are collected from the duty which has been imposed on spirituous liquors, and from licences to keep public-houses for the retail of them.

Statistical account of the settlements in Van Diemen’s land.

Van Diemen’s Land is situated between 40 degrees 42’, and 43 degrees 43’ of south latitude, and between 145 degrees 31’ and 148 degrees 22’ of east longitude.  The honour of the discovery of this island also belongs to the Dutch; but the survey of it has been principally effected by the English.