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NOVA SCOTIA.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Table A.

EVERYTHING is working smoothly in this province under responsible government. There is no great public question agitating it; the revenue slightly exceeds the expenditure, and the commerce of the country makes steady progress, still greater activity being expected from the stimulus to trade that will be created by the Reciprocity Treaty. A railroad is in course of construction from Halifax to the frontier of the province, the money for which is raised on the guarantee of the local revenues.

I append a statement, exhibiting the popula- tion, revenue and expenditure, and imports and exports.

The military force consists of 1,112 men, at the date of the last returns; and the militia numbers, on paper, 44,248.

There is a small annual parliamentary grant of £3,537, for the clergy in this province, which diminishes as the incumbents die.

TABLE A

Taken from the last Returns, vis. : 1852.

Reference :-

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Population.

Revenue.

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Expenditure.

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Imports. Exports.

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d.

£

£

276,117

118,962 13 6 118,786 11 21,062,079 795,052

A. B.