The duty, excise. or bounty, if any, should be stated, and any alterations in past years; and also the amount exported or imported for a series of years. Whether the same article, but of superior, equal, or inferior make, is imported? Does the manufacturer export, or sell, to a middleman, who supplies the merchant? To what countries is it chiefly sent? and in what goods are the returns made? 161. Each process requires a separate skeleton, and the following outline will be sufficient for many different manufactories: Process ( ) Manufacture ( ) Place ( ) Name ( ) date 183 The mode of executing it, with sketches of the tools or machine if necessary. The number of persons necessary to attend the machine. Are the operatives, men ( ) women, ( ) or children? ( ) If mixed, what are the proportions? What is the pay of each? (s. d.) (s. d. ) (s. d.) per ( ) What number ( ) of hours do they work per day? Is it usual, or necessary, to work night and day without stopping? Is the labour performed by piece--or by day-work? Who provide tools? Master, or men? Who repair tools? Master, or men? What degree of skill is required, and how many years' ( ) apprenticeship? The number of times ( ) the operation is repeated per day or per hour? The number of failures ( ) in a thousand? Whether the workmen or the master loses by the broken or damaged articles? What is done with them? If the same process is repeated several times, state the diminution or increase of measure, and the loss, if any, at each repetition.