HI'S TO Iir OF MALTA.

321

Annual Expenditure, 01years, from IT

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which from 1726 to 1762 received 2^ per cent;second, from Spain in 1761, 1762, and 1763, at2, 21, and 2£ per cent; third, frequent sumsborrowed from the convent at 3 per cent. Theselast loans were principally intended for fulfillingthe engagements entered into by the order ofMalta with that of St. Lazarus, relative to thefinal division of the property of the order of St.

Anthony. 48,877 10 13 .

Article LVII1.

Drafts and Remittances.

The treasury having been obliged to make useof drafts and remittances to enable it to employthe greatest part of its revenue, which was de-posited in the different receivers’ offices, must ne-cessarily have either gained or lost by the ex-change in the course of ten years. An accurateaccount having been taken, the loss amounted to 768 8 12

Article LIX.

Wood at Melicutta.

A large plantation was made in the commanderyof Melicutta in Calabria, in 1763, in hopes of itsyielding in the space of a few years a sufficientquantity of timber for ship-building. The order,however, had as yet received no advantage fromthis plantation. . . .... 1,823 11 16

Article LX.

Library.

This article would in future have been ratherless expensive to the order; not only from the

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