pp. 1-2 - deal with various payments made in 1861, which have nothing to do with pay deductions. There are such entries as payments of poor rate to the overseers of Maentwrog, for haymaking at Penrhyn (on company's land?), to boatment for loading the "John and Ann" on 16 October and the "Lady Vaughan" on 7 November etc.
The deduction sheets proper extend from p. 3 to p. 103; a few jottings on pp. 129, 130; and a continuation on pp. 142-184.
The deductions were made principally on explosives and tools supplied, and for smiths work in sharpening the tools.
On p. 185 is the official list of prices charged for gunpowder, dynamite, grease candles, tolls, sharpening and steeling the same "per 20 points", 1/- for the first operation, 3d. for the second