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Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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Reports from Surinam indicate severe scarcity of essential goods, prompting Governor Bentinck's proclamation offering bounties on imports of flour, rice, beans, and peas via British and neutral vessels. Similar crop failures due to dry weather raise scarcity fears in Berbice, Demerary, and Essequibo.
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Accounts from Surinam to the 10th inst. state a great scarcity to prevail in that colony of almost all the indispensable articles of life: in consequence of this, a proclamation has been issued by the court of police, under the authority of governor Bentinck, granting a bounty on the importation in British and neutral vessels, within the space of four weeks from the above date, of fifteen guilders per barrel on flour; five per hundred on rice; and two per hundred on beans and peas; and for four weeks further, a bounty on the said articles of 25 per cent. less than the above, deducted at the expiration of each fortnight. It appears also, that from the general prevalence of dry weather at Berbice, Demerary, and Essequibo the plantain crops have mostly failed, and as late as the 18th instant, great apprehensions of scarcity were entertained in those colonies, as well as at Surinam.
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Surinam
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To The 10th Inst.
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proclamation granting bounties: 15 guilders per barrel on flour, 5 per hundred on rice, 2 per hundred on beans and peas for four weeks; reduced by 25% for next four weeks. crop failures and scarcity apprehensions in berbice, demerary, essequibo, and surinam.
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Great scarcity of indispensable articles in Surinam leads to proclamation by court of police under Governor Bentinck offering bounties on imports in British and neutral vessels. Dry weather causes plantain crop failures in Berbice, Demerary, and Essequibo, with scarcity fears as of 18th instant.