West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition |
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الصفحة 73
... in Jamaica charges five per cent . commission on the net proceeds of the shipments from every plantation which he has the care of ; and this , though very high , is but a small part of an attorney's emoluments .
... in Jamaica charges five per cent . commission on the net proceeds of the shipments from every plantation which he has the care of ; and this , though very high , is but a small part of an attorney's emoluments .
الصفحة 74
... larger quantities of stores than is necessary , and convert the overplus to their own use ; others keep ftores , and take every opportunity of supplying the estates in their care with every article at an hundred per cent , advance .
... larger quantities of stores than is necessary , and convert the overplus to their own use ; others keep ftores , and take every opportunity of supplying the estates in their care with every article at an hundred per cent , advance .
الصفحة 99
... may push himself into credit , get bargains at vendue , keep a favourite wench , and make her retail them at cent . per cent . profit ; or such a person 1 1 person may infinuate himself into the favour of IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
... may push himself into credit , get bargains at vendue , keep a favourite wench , and make her retail them at cent . per cent . profit ; or such a person 1 1 person may infinuate himself into the favour of IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
الصفحة 100
1 1 person may infinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a store and turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commission on all goods he difposes of is sure and safe profit , and in time he may make some money , get credit ...
1 1 person may infinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a store and turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commission on all goods he difposes of is sure and safe profit , and in time he may make some money , get credit ...
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