of the Gunpowder Depôt, a concern which is accidentally superintended by the Harbor Master, but which has little connection with his special duties as such. You can, however, now see that, independent of the sum necessary to reserve for purchase of a new Hulk hereafter, the annual cost of the Gunpowder Depôt is $3,928. On the other hand, if anyone were to ask how much the Office of Harbor Master, properly so called, costs the Colony, it would be impossible to say, because you cannot divide the $21,272, allotted to the Department so as to distinguish the cost of the ordinary duties of the office from others even more important and onerous which devolve on him for suppression of Piracy and Crime under the Harbor and Coasts Ordinance. The latter involve the examination, visiting, registration, and general superintendence of about 36,000 Junks annually, and this in a Colony where each year 5 millions of tons of Shipping, manned by 800,000 sailors, arrive and depart.
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of the Gunpowder Depôt, a concern which accidentally is superintended by the Harbor Master, but which has little connection with his special duties as such. You can, however, now see that, independent of the sum necessary to reserve for purchase of a new Hulk hereafter, the annual cost of the Gunpowder Depôt is $3,928. On the other hand, if any one were to ask how much the Office of Harbor Master, properly so called, costs the Colony, it would be impossible to say, because you cannot divide the $21,272, allotted to the Department so as to distinguish the cost of the ordinary duties of the office from others even more important and onerous which devolve on him for suppression of Piracy and Crime under the Harbor and Coasts Ordinance. The latter involve the examination, visiting, registration and general superintendence of about 36,000 Junks annually, and this in a Colony where each year 5 millions of tons of Shipping, manned by 800,000 sailors, arrive and depart.
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