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Enclosure: [Emoluments of Collectors of the Customs for the Year 1790], [5 April 1792]

Statement of Emoluments of the Collectors of the Customs, in the United States, for the year 1790, except in the cases of North Carolina and Rhode Island, which are stated from the time of the operation of the offices in those States, in 1790, to the same period in the year following, so as to embrace likewise one entire year.
Additional Salaries proposed
Ports Amount
received.
Clerk-hire
charged.
Rent, Fuel
Stationery
&c.
Nett amount
of
Emoluments.
Annual Salary
allowed by
the
Collection law
Annual
Salary.
Percentage
on duties
collected.
Portsmouth 556.82 169.   91.   296.82 100. ½ per cent.
Newbury-port 647.13. 333.33 57.33 256.47 ½
Gloucester 402.20 39    363.20 50 ½
Salem & Beverly 831.56 200    73. 5 558.51 50 ¼
Marblehead (9 months) 343.25 90.   68.50 184.75 ½
Boston & Charlestown
Plymouth 311.30 30.   281.30 50. ½
Barnstable 147.50 50.13. 97.37 50.
Nantucket & Sherburne 298.21 29.20 269. 1. 50. ½
Edgar Town 106.70 17.   89.70 50. ½
New Bedford 275.60 100.   175.60 50. ½
Dighton 203.97 50. ½
York 128.62 21.65 106.97 50. ½
Biddeford and
Pepperelborough
}
471.81 78    35    358.81 50. ½
Portland 602.35 200.   49    353.35 ½
Bath 321.38 10    25.33 286. 5. 50. ½
Wiscassett 300    59.   241.   50. ½
Penobscot 115.16 10.35 104.81 60. ½
Frenchman’s Bay 498.78. 30.   468.78. 50 ½
Machias 123.23 30.50 91.73. 50. ½
Passamaquody 100.
Newport 621.91 500    73.48 48.43 50. ½
Providence 650.27 575.   131.35 ½
New London 1699.52 95.   1604.52
New Haven 528.59 60    105.   363.59 ½
 
Fairfield 282.73 140    142.73. 50. ½
Allburgh 100
Sagg Harbour 75.45. 39.10 36.35 100.
New York
Perth Amboy 196.48 50. ½
Burlington 61.86. 30.   31.86 50 ½
Bridge town 105.76 16. 4 89.72 50 ½
Great Egg Harbour. 50. ½
Philadelphia
Wilmington (Delaware) 478.   150.   328.   50. ½
Baltimore 2328.98 1166.66 318.68 843.70
Chester 77.33 50. ½
Oxford 116.63 9.57 107. 6. 100
Vienna 50. ½
Snow Hill 140.40. 40    35.98 64.42 50 ½
Annapolis 74.90 21.56 53.34 100 100 ½
Nottingham 201.95. 45.   156.95 100. ½
Cedar point 126.92 100.   91.33 100. 50. ½
George town (of Maryland) 401.55. 240.   82    79.55. 50. ½
Hampton 63.45 50. 50. ½
Norfolk 1567.45 633.33 194.66 739. 2
Bermuda Hundred 1426.   328.50 270.75 826.75
York Town 135.67 70.   65.67 100. ½
Tappahannock 586.41 133.33 186.54 266.54 ½
Yeocomico river 24    42.50 100
Dumfries 172.87 65.15 107.72 100. ½
Alexandria ½
Foley-landing 100.
Cherrystone 100.
South Quay 7.   15.50 100.
Louisville 150.
Wilmington (N.C) 478.43 300.   49.95 128.48 50. ½
New Bern 907.20 260.   119.   528.20 ½
Washington 474.85 200    36    238.85 50. ½
Edenton 50. ½
 
Plankbridge 229.40 36.50 192.90 50. ½
George Town (S:C:) 50. ½
Charleston.
Beaufort. 100.
Savannah 866.53 270    79.67 518.86 ½
Sunbury 60.
Brunswick 18.38 10.   8.38 100.
St. Mary’s 100.

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