. The Statemans Yearbook : Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year . iedwith several batteries of heavy guns. There is a supreme court, and policeand petty debt courts in each district; in 1897, 538 persons were summarilyconvicted, and 67 referred to the Supreme Court for trial. Chief productsand exports : palm oil and kernels, benni seed, ground nuts, kola nuts, india-rubber, copal, hides. Many skilled workers in gold and silver. Governmentsavings banks with 40,418/. deposited in 1897. There are good roads, andmuch traffic on the many lagoons and canals. The
. The Statemans Yearbook : Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year . iedwith several batteries of heavy guns. There is a supreme court, and policeand petty debt courts in each district; in 1897, 538 persons were summarilyconvicted, and 67 referred to the Supreme Court for trial. Chief productsand exports : palm oil and kernels, benni seed, ground nuts, kola nuts, india-rubber, copal, hides. Many skilled workers in gold and silver. Governmentsavings banks with 40,418/. deposited in 1897. There are good roads, andmuch traffic on the many lagoons and canals. The following are the statistics of the four colonies :— WEST AFRICAN COLONIES 217 Revenue 1893 1894 1895 £ 142,049 230,076 97,851 20,561 1896 £ 179,745 237,460 96,109 26,172 1897 Lagos ....Gold Coast .Sierra Leone .Gambia .... £115,317 201,78392,76931,899 £ 137,017 218,261 98,838 23,798 £ 177,421 237,857 106,008 39,415 Total . 441,768 477,914 491,537 j 539,486 1 560,701 Leading item of revenue (1897) : Customs, Lagos, 159,819Z. ; Gold Coast,199,807Z. ; Sierra Leone, 87,093Z. ; Gambia, 31, The luiblic debt of Sierra Leone (1897), consists of a loan originally of50,000Z., of which 25,000Z. is outstanding. The others have no public debt. Imports 1893 1894 1895 1806 1897 £770,511910,540457,389176,328 LagosGold CoastSierra Leone .Gambia . Total. £ 749,027718,353417,466166,509 £744,561812,830478,025130,349 £ 815,815 931,537 427,337 97,399 £901,475910,211^.94,688110,324 2,051,355 2,165,765 |2,272,088 ,2,416,698 2,314,768 The chief imports (1897) of Lagos were : cotton goods, 302,477/.; spirits,63,870Z.; tobacco, 17,356/. Gold Coast : cottons, 237,766/. ; spirits, 87,657/. ;tobacco, 16,870/. Sierra Leone : cottons, 147,950/. ; spirits, 16,985/. ; tobacco,21,350/. Gambia: cotton goods, 56,983/.; spirits, 2,344/.; tobacco,hardware. According to the Board of Trade returns, the total imports into theUnited Kingdom in 1897 from the West African colonies amounted to1,801,795/.
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