TABLE 5. The number and value of ships’ knees (usually specified as of ‘juniper' [i.e. tamarack]) exported from Prince Edward Island each year between 1844 and 1857, and the number on which an export duty was paid — as listed in the custom records contained in the Journals of the House of Assembly for 1845 to 1858. (The duty was set at 3 pence per knee from 1 July 1852 and raised to 1 shilling from 1 July 1853, but then lapsed from 1 January 1855 with the inception of the Reciprocity Treaty with the United States.)

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1844-1846 1847 1 848 1 849

1856 8: 1857

1847: 1849: 1850: 1851:

1852:

1852:

1853:

1854:

1855:

”"3122; Of Listed value of 1:33:32? Amount of duty - knees exported collected listed as

which duty exported (g I S / d) was paid (E / S I d)

not listed

not listed

4,704 g 715 * 850 b

6,768 **

58/19/6 235/18/0

1,659/18/0 3,9591] 49/9/9 11,122T 497/1/6

3,016 / 4 / 10 not listed i

not listed 10,855 1 5,760 J

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not listed

All from ‘Three Rivers’.

609 from ‘Bedeque‘; 4,095 from ‘Three Rivers‘. All from ‘Bedeque’.

All from ‘Bedeque‘.

2,112 from ‘Three Rivers‘; 808 from ‘Cascumpec’; 529 from ‘Bedeque‘; and 3,319 from ‘Grand River'.

262 at ‘Charlottetown‘; 766 at ‘Georgetown‘; 184 at ‘Souris’; 109 at ‘Bedeque'; 2,638 at ‘Grand River’.

724 at ‘Charlottetown'; 179 at ‘Georgetown‘; 2,581 at ‘Souris’; 586 at ‘Bedeque': 100 at ‘Richmond Bay'; 194 at ‘St. Peters’; 970 at ‘Tignish‘; 4,455 at ‘Grand River'; 1,123 at ‘Cascumpec’; 210 at ‘Rustico'. None listed for New London, Murray Harbour, Crapaud and Orwell.

1,794 from ‘Three Rivers‘; 2,741 from ‘Colville Bay’; 5,324 from ‘Grand River’; 108 from ‘Murray Harbour‘; 610 from ‘St. Peters’; 175 from ‘Crapaud’; 56 from ‘Bedeque'; 47 from ‘Cascumpec'. The journals omit to record the duty collected on ‘juniper knees' in 1854, even though knees were presumably subject to a duty until reciprocity came into effect in 1855.

All from ‘Grand River‘.

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