Volume 4

A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies ... / Rev., augm., and pub., in ten volumes, by the Abbé Raynal. Newly translated. from the French, by J.O. Justamond. F.R.S., with a new set of maps adapted to the work, and a copious index.

  • Raynal, abbé (Guillaume-Thomas-François), 1713-1796.
Date:
1783
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Credit: A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies ... / Rev., augm., and pub., in ten volumes, by the Abbé Raynal. Newly translated. from the French, by J.O. Justamond. F.R.S., with a new set of maps adapted to the work, and a copious index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    47? 5 o o K The miners are obliged to deliver to the king t—^ the fifth part of the gold, which they extraft^by pperations more or lefs fuccefsfql. Thi^'^fiftl), was formerly confiderable, as it exceeded ^,ooo,obo of livres * annually, from the ye^r 1728 to 1734; but it hath fince gradually dec^^afed. At prefent the annual produce of Mjtjas-Geraes amounts only to 18,750,000 livres’f ; that of-Goyas to 4.687.500 livres that of Matto Groflb to 1.312.500 livres II j and that of Bahia and St. Paul together, only to 1,562,500 livres §. This makes, upon the whole, 25,512,500 livres f, of which the government receives 5,062,500 livres**. .The duties for the working of the gold into fpecie yield 1,647,500 livres ft j and, at the rate of 2 per Cent, they get 393,000 livres for the conveyance, which is executed by their fhips, of all the gold that belongs to trade j fo that upon the 25,512,500 |||| which the mines pro- , duce, the miniftry take 7,103,000 livres They would even receive fomething more, if to the amount of about 600,000 livres were not annually fmuggled without paying the two laft mentioned taxes. » * 375,0001. X 195,3121. lOS. § 65,1041. 3 s. 4 d. •* 210,937 f 10s. XÎ 16,3751. 295,958 1. 6 s. 8 d. * t 781,2501. II 54,687 1. 10s. ^ 1,034,6871. 10 s. ft 68,645 f 16 s. 8 d. nil 1,054,6871. 10 s. 25,cool.