Every person annually gives his list, specifying the property he possesses, to the selectmen, who send the sum total of each town to the General Assembly, when a tax of one shilling, more or less, according to public exigencies, is imposed on each pound. According to the general list of the colony for 1770, I have underrated its annual worth, which then was fixed at 2,000,000_l._; for, though that list includes the poll-tax of 18_l._ per head for all males above sixteen and under sixty years of age, the faculty tax, and the tax on shipping, all which may amount to 600,000_l._, there nevertheless remains a surplus of 150,000_l._ above my calculation. But, supposing a tax of one shilling in the pound (the common colonial assessment) on 1,250,000_l._, the produce will be 62,500_l._, exclusive of the poll, faculty, and other taxes. Small, however, as this assessment is, it has never been collected without much difficulty and clamour; yet the people lose, by trading with Boston, New-York, and Newport, in exports and imports, 600,000_l._ annually; and that for nothing but to oblige the traders of those towns, and disoblige one another. The annual expenditure of the colony is as follows: Salary of Governor 300_l._ 00_s._ “ Lieutenant-Governor 150 00 “ Treasurer 150 00 “ Secretary 150 00 “ the twelve assistants in Council with the Governor 800 00 “ 146 Representatives 2,500 00 “ 300 Ministers, 100_l._ each 30,000 00 Allowance for contingencies 28,450 00 ------------------ Total 62,500_l._ 00_s._ The above-mentioned list of the colony, including the poll-tax, &c. would afford 32,500_l._ more for contingencies. _Religion and Government._--Properly speaking, the Connectitensians have neither, nor ever had; but, in pretence, they excel the whole world, except Boston and Spain. If I could recollect the names of the multifarious religious sects among them, it might afford the reader a pleasant idea of the prolific invention of mankind. I shall mention a few of the most considerable, specifying the number of their congregations: CONGREGATIONS. Episcopalians 73 Scotch presbyterians 1 Sandemanians 3 Ditto Bastard 1 Lutherans 1 Baptists 6 Seventh-day ditto 1 Quakers 4 Davisonians 1 Separatists 40 Rogereens 1 Bowlists 1 Old Lights 80 New Lights 87 --- 300