Dollars. The annual expences of the general aflembly are about - 20,000 The governor 3>333t The council of ftate io,666t r 340 ] Dollars.
Their clerks 1,1 6t Eleven judges 11,000 The clerk of the chancery 666t The attorney general 1,000 Three auditors and afolicitor 5,333t Their clerks 2,000 Thetreafurer 2,000 His clerks 2,000 The keeper of the public jail 1,000 The public printer 1,666} Clerks of the inferior courts 43)333i PubUc levy : this is chiefly for the expences of criminal juftice 40,000 County levy, for bridges, court- houfes, prifons, &c. 40,000 Members of Congrefs 7,000 Quota of the federal civil lift, fup- pofed one fixth of about 78,000 dollars 13,000 Expences of coUeding, fix per cent.
on the above 12,310 The clergy receive only voluntary contributions: fuppofe them on an average one-eighth of a dollar a tythe on 200,000 tythes 25,000 I 341 1 Dollars.
Contingencies, to make round numbers not far from truth 7,5234.
250,000 Dollars, or 53,571 guineas. This eftimate is exclufive of the military expence. That varies with the force aftually employed, and in time of peace will probably be little or nothing. It is exclufive alfo of the public debts, which are growing while I am writing and cannot therefore be now fixed. So it is of the maintenance of the poor, which being merely a matter of charity cannot be deemed expended in the adminiftration of government. And if we ftrike out the 25,000 dollars for the fer- vices of the clergy, which neither makes part of that adminiftration, more than what is paid to phyficians, or lawyers, and being voluntary, is either much or nothing as every one pleafes, it leaves 225,000 dollars, equal to 48,208 guineas, the real coft of the apparatus of government with us. This divided among the aftual inha- bitants of our country, comes to about two- fifths of a dollar, 2 id. fterling, or 42 fols,_ the price which each pays annually for the protection of the refidue of his property, and the other