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Total L6,195

By an Admiralty Order, dated August 1837, it is directed that the pay
of the following persons in steamers shall be as under, but increased
one-half of the sum when on service in the West Indies:--

1st Engineer, per month L9 12 0
2d do. do. 6 6 0
3d do. do. 4 4 0
Engineer Boys: 1st class, per do. 1 14 0
" 2d do. do. 1 6 0
" 3d do. do. 1 3 0
" 4th do. do. 0 14 6

And according to the Report of the Post-Office Commissioners, the pay
of the following officers on some of the Home Steam-boat Stations,
is:--

1st Mate, per annum L78 0 0
2d do. " 45 10 0
Master " 78 0 0
Captains " from 400_l._ to 500_l._

III.--_Small Sailing Vessels._ (p. 115)

Cost, say averages 2,000_l._--Interest at 5 per cent. L100
Insurance, 12 per cent. 240
Tear and wear, at 5 per cent. 100
Crews, 10. Captain, per annum L100
Mate 70
8 Men and Boys, average 30s. per
month 144
Provisions, at 30s. per do. 180
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494
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Total L934

POSTAGES, PROBABLE AMOUNT, INCREASE, &c.

In the General Post-office Accounts for 1836 (see Finance Accounts,
1837, p. 55), there is charged the sum of 9,406_l._ 7_s._ 5-1/4_d._,
as the sum paid for ship letters. For each letter received by a ship
not a regular packet, 2d. is paid by the Post Office at landing, and
which gives the number of such letters to be 1,128,764 yearly. Suppose
400,000 of these went by packets under the new arrangements, the
additional Post-office revenue therefrom would be 16,665_l._

The sum just mentioned as paid for ship letters may be stated as
principally attached to ship letters brought from all places in the
Western World. According to a return to the House of Commons (see East
India Steam