BRITISH SETTLEMENT


 Brought forward
Saturday's labour, invariably
 the privilege of the slave,
 and which is generally en-
 gaged by his owner: esta-
 blished rate 3s. 4d. per day*


.. s. d.
27 6 3






8 13 4


 Jamaica currency X 35 19 7

 Equal in sterling, for each
 slave, per annum. .... X 25 13 114


 If he be not employed in regular mahogany
cutting, he is at least engaged in some occupation
by his master which gives him claim to this com.
pensation. This allowance, however, though it
be paid at the nominal rate of 3s. 4d. per day,
seldom actually amounts to any thing like so
much; it being in most instances accounted for
in slops, trinkets, or liquors, of the most infe-
rior kind; and which no doubt are given out in
this way at a profit of more than 200 per cent.
besides, the principal number of the persons en.
gaged in the cutting of mahogany being also in