2d. The total expence of the Office at Bow-street, in the year 1797, including remunerations to the Magistrates in lieu of fees, perquisites, and special services, and the expence of the patrole of 68 persons 7,901 7 7 ------------- Total expence for the Metropolis 26,183 6 1 3d. The money paid to the several Sheriffs for the conviction of Felons in 1797 9,650 0 0 4th. The expence of maintaining Convicts on board the Hulks, (exclusive of 415 under Sentence of Transportation in the different gaols), amounted in 1797 to £.32,080 0 0 5th. The expences incurred in the employment of Convicts by the Navy and Ordnance Boards, probably amounting to not less than from 10_l._ to 20_l._ per Man per annum, were by computation 1,498 14 10-1/4 6th. The annual average of cloathing, victualling, and transporting Convicts, and of the Civil, Military, and Marine Departments of New South Wales, and Norfolk Island, from 1786 to 1797 86,457 12 11-1/2 ---------------- 120,036 7 9-3/4 ----------------- 155,869 13 10-3/4 To which add the farther sums annually charged on the County Rates, or incurred in places having peculiar Jurisdiction in England 50,000 0 0 Borne by the Sheriffs in England 10,000 0 0 60,000 0 0 ----------------- ----------------- Total for all England 215,869 13 10-3/4]