that
Newfoundland should be a training ground for the Navy, and a place of
trade, not a permanent settlement. Bounties were given to the fishing
industry, and stringent measures were provided to ensure that masters
trading to the island should return with undiminished crews. The
privilege of drying fish was to be enjoyed only by such of the King's
subjects as sailed to Newfoundland from Great Britain, or from one of
the British dominions in Europe.

An interesting light upon the economic condition of the colony is
thrown by the following figures:

Estimate of the sums necessary to pay the salaries of the Governor and
Civil Officers in the Island of Newfoundland from April 1st, 1787, to
April 1st, 1788:

L s. d.
Salary of the Governor 500 0 0
The Governor's Secretary 182 10 0
The Judge of the Admiralty 200 0 0
The Naval Officer 100 0 0
The Agent 100 0 0
On Account, for Fees on Receipt and Audit 100 0 0

L1,182 10 0

It will be of interest to give here a few figures as to the growth of
the English population in order to show that colonial developments
were proceeding in the right direction. "Residents grew apace, as the
increase of women and children from 612 in 1710 to 1,356 in 1738, and
to 2,508 in 1754 attested. Heads of families accounted for a third
more, so that in round numbers permanent residents were 800 in 1710,
1,800 in 1738, and 3,400 in 1754. The ship's crews of English ships,
for whose sake the older theorists taught that the fisheries primarily
existed, numbered 3,600 in 1738 and 4,500 in 1754, so that they
outnumbered residents, in the strictest sense of the word residents.
But if residents included all those who wintered on the island, they
outnumbered ship's crews during this half-century. On the other hand,
if passengers were added to ships' crews, the visitors outnumbered the
settlers, except when there were war scares....[32] Between 1764 and
1774 residents for the first time continuously outnumbered visitors.
During these years the winter residents, including male hangers-on as
well as settlers, averaged 12,340; and visitors, including
'passengers' as well as ships' crews, averaged 11,876; or excluding
male hangers-on from the one side and passengers from the othe