or places of defence have been kept up within this Government; but there is, at present, a stone Fortification, which was began about three years ago, at the expense of this Province, on an Island in the River Delaware, called Mud Island, about ten miles below the City of Philadelphia, intended for the security and protection of the City against Privateers and other small vessels of force, which might otherwise, in time of war, without any difficulty or interruption, pass up the River to the City, and plunder and destroy it in a few days; but this Fort is left unfinished for want of sufficient funds provided by the Assembly to complete it?

17. What number of Indians have you, and how are they inclined?

Answer. Before the late Indian war there were a number of Indians settled in several parts of the Province, but during that war and since they have withdrawn themselves beyond the Western and Northern limits of the Province.

18. What is the strength of the nighbouring Indians?

Answer. As there has been no intercourse between this Government and the neighbouring Indians since the general superintendence of Indian Affairs was committed to Sir William Johnson, I cannot well ascertain their number and strength.

19. What is the Revenue arising within your Government, and how is it appropriated and applied?

Answer. The present Revenue of the Government arises principally from two temporary Acts of Assembly; one, an Act for laying an Excise on Wine, Rum, Brandy, and other Spirits, the other an Act for emitting on Loan at five per cent, interest, Bills of Credit struck for that special purpose. The nett amount of this Revenue is about eight thousand Pounds sterling. The appropriation is made by the Governour and Assembly, and has been hitherto applied by them to the defraying the ordinary and extraordinary expenses of Government mentioned in the next question. This is exclusive of an annual sum of fifteen thousand Pounds sterling raised by Tax on the Real and Personal Estates of the inhabitants, for sinking and destroying the Bills of Credit issued at different times during the late war, and granted by way of supplies to his late and present Majesty. These Taxes were by Act of Assembly, till sufficient sums should be thereby raised for the above purpose, and will not cease for two years to come. Neither does the above state of the Revenue include a duty of Tonnage on Vessels, imposed by an Act of Assembly, amounting yearly to about the sum of one thousand Pounds sterling, which, by law, is appropriated towards the paying for, and maintenance of, a Light House, lately erected at the Capes of Delaware, and Buoys placed in the Bay and River; nor a duty of twenty Pounds per head laid on Negroes and Mulattoes, Slaves imported, which produces about the nett sum of fifty Pounds sterling, and is appropriated to the payment of the owners of such Slaves as are executed for capital offences, and the surplus, if any, to be disposed of by the Governour and Assembly.

20. What are the ordinary and extraordinary expenses of your Government?

Answer. The ordinary expenses of the Government of Pennsylvania, communibus annis, amount to about the sum of three thousand Pounds sterling. This is exclusive of the charges and expenses of each County yearly for paying the wages of their Representatives in Assembly, making and repairing of Roads, maintenance of their Poor, erecting and repairing of Court Houses and Prisons, building of Bridges, and other local purposes, all which are raised by Tax on the Real and Personal Estates of the inhabitants. The extraordinary expenses of Government consists in Presents and expenses to Indians who occasionally come on business, or pass and repass through this to the neighbouring Colonies, Messages to and Treaties with Indians, to settle differences which happen from time to time between them and our frontier inhabitants, furnishing bedding and other necessaries for his Majesty's Troops in the several Barracks, raising, paying, and victualling Rangers, to guard and protect our frontier inhabitants from Indian incursions and depredations, clearing Rivers and Creeks for inland navigation, making Provincial Roads, publick rewards for the discovering and apprehending Murderers and other capital offenders, and like publick purposes. As many of these expenses are in their nature contingent, no certain account can be given of the annual amount of them. They are defrayed as occasion requires, out of the surplus money arising from the Revenue, stated in answer to the 19th question.

21. What are the establishments, Civil and Military, within your Government, and by what authority do the Officers hold their places? What is the annual value of each office, Civil and Military, how are they respectively appointed, and who are the present possessors?

Answer. There are no Military establishments in Pennsylvania. The Civil establishments are as follows:

The Honourable James Hamilton, Esquire, Joseph Turner, Esquire, William Logan, Esquire, Richard Peters, Esquire, Benjamin Chew, Esquire, Thomas Cadwallader, Esquire, Richard Penn, Esquire James Tilghman, Esquire, Andrew Allen, Esquire, Edward Shippen, Junior, Esquire, the Council, being in the nature of a Privy Council, having no Legislative power; appointed by the Governour, no Salary or Perquisites.

The Honourable Benjamin Chew, Esq., Chief Justice; by the Governour, Salary l200.

John Lawrence, Esquire, Thomas Willing, Esquire, John Morton, Esquire, Assistant Judges of the Supreme Court; by the Governour, l100 each.

Benjamin Chew, Esquire, Register-General for Probate of Wills and granting Administrations; by the Governour, l200.

Andrew Allen, Esquire, Attorney General; by the Governour, l50.

Joseph Shippen, Junior, Esquire, Provincial Secretary and Clerk of the Council; by the Governour, l200.

Jared Ingersoll, Esquire, Judge of the Court of Vice-Admiralty for the Provinces of New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, held at Philadelphia, appointed by his Majesty, l600.

John Smith, Esquire, Register of the Vice-Admiralty Court; by his Majesty, l40.

Arodi Thayer, Esquire, Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court; by his Majesty, l30.

Edward Shippen, Esquire, Judge of the Court of Admiralty for the Province of Pennsylvania; by his Majesty, of little or no value since the establishment of the preceding Court.

Richard Peters, Junior, Esquire, Register of the Provincial Court of Admiralty; by his Majesty; of little value.

Judah Foulke, Esquire, Marshal of the Provincial Court of Admiralty; by the Judge; of little value.

William Parr, Esquire, Master of the Rolls and Recorder of Deeds; by the Governour, l40.

Laughlin M'Cleane, Esquire, Principal, John Patterson, Esquire, Deputy, Collector of his Majesty's Customs for the Port of Philadelphia; by his Majesty, l1,000.

Zachariah Hood, Esquire, Comptroller; by his Majesty, l300.

Richard Penn, Esquire, Naval Officer; by the Governour, l600.

Owen Jones, Esquire, Provincial Treasurer; by the Assembly, l300.

Edward Shippen, Jun., Esquire, Prothonotary of the Supreme Court; nominated by the Judges, and approved and commissioned by the Governour, l200.

Charles Moore, Esquire, Clerk of the House of Assembly; by the Assembly, l100.

James Tilghman, Esquire, Secretary of the Proprietarias' Land Office; by the Proprietaries, l500.

Edmund Physick, Esquire, Keeper of the Great Seal; by the Proprietaries, 125.

John Lukens, Esquire, Surveyor General; by the Proprietaries, l250.

James Hamilton, Esquire, Principal, James Biddle, Esquire, Deputy, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Philadelphia; by the Governour, l500.

John Lawrence, Esquire, Principal, William Parr, Esquire, Deputy, Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace for Philadelphia County; nominated by the Justices, and approved and commissioned by the Governour, l10.

William Dewees, Esquire, Sheriff of Philadelphia County; two persons being clected by the people, are presented to the Governour, who approves and commissions one of them, l300.

John Knight, Esquire, Coroner of the County of Philadelphia; appointed in the same manner as the Sheriff, l40.

William Crispin, Collector of the Excise for Philadelphia County; by Act of Assembly, l100.

Levi Hollingsworth, Flour Brander for Philadelphia County; by Act of Assembly, l300.

Henry Hale Graham, Esquire, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, and Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions for Chester County; by the Governour, l20.

Nathaniel Vernon, Esquire, Sheriff of Chester County; as Sheriff of Philadelphia County, l100.

John Bryan, Esquire, Coroner of Chester County; as Sheriff of Philadelphia County, l20.

Thomas Tucker, Collector of Excise for Chester County; by Act of Assembly, l30.

Isaac Hicks, Esquire, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, and Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions for Bucks County; by the Governour, l100.

Samuel Biles, Esquire, Sheriff of Bucks County; as Sheriff of Philadelphia County, l100.

George Fell, Esquire, Coroner of Bucks County; as Sheriff of Philadelphia County, l10.

John Wolston, Collector of Excise for Bucks County: by Act of Assembly, l20.

Edward Shippen, Senior, Esquire, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, and Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lancaster County; by the Governour, l300.

John Ferree, Esquire, Sheriff of Lancaster County; as the Sheriff of Philadelphia County, l140.