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HISTORY OF MALTA.

TABLE III

GENERAL EXPENDITURE.

Annual Expenditure, on an average of ten years,from 1779 to 1788, inclusive.

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Maltese Money. English Money.

Article I. Crowns. T. G. £. s. d.

*1

Ambassadors.

This article includes their salary, with the par-ticular gratifications bestowed on them on differ-ent occasions; likewise the pay of the secretaries,with some other expences attached to their office,

which vary every year. ..... 38,026 7 0 . 3,802 13 2

Article II.

Receivers.

This article not only relates to the salariespaid to the agents and lawyers belonging to thereceivers’ offices, but also to the wages of thesecretaries and other inferior persons employedunder them ; and to the expences both of theoffice, and journeys taken on account of the ge-neral affairs; together ivith those necessarily in-curred in carrying on different law-suits relative

to the general privileges of the order. . . 66,433 1 12 . 6,643 6 3

Article III. *

Conventual Churches.

The salaries of the different persons doing dutyat the churches of St. John, St. Anthony, and theConception, together with the yearly repairs ofthe said churches, made the expence of this ar-