1801. 10 March. Contract with Campbell for importing cattle. behalf of His Majesty, doth further contract, agree, and engage, THAT the said Robert Campbell shall receive at the rate of sixty pounds sterling per ton for ten tons of sugar, which shall be landed and received in the colony, in a fair merchantable condition, and equal in quality to the muster now delivered by the said Robert Campbell, each and every of these articles to be paid for to the said Robert Campbell, his partners, his or their heirs, executors and administrators, by bills drawn at ninety days' sight upon the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury. AND the said Philip Gidley King, Esquire, for, and on behalf of His Majesty, doth contract, agree, and engage to deliver, or cause to be delivered, the cargo aforesaid, within twenty-eight days from the day of the arrival of the ship in Sydney Cove; but, in case it should happen that the said cargo should be detained longer on board than the number of days above limited, the said Robert Campbell shall be allowed at the rate of her daily expence for every day she shall be detained after that time at the port of landing as aforesaid. AND in order that the colony may not suffer by any accident which may prevent the receiving the cows, &c., above contracted for, the said Philip Gidley King, Esquire, doth further contract, agree, and engage, for and on behalf of His Majesty, THAT this contract shall be binding to all parties in freighting a second ship with the cows, &c., above specified. AND to the true performance of all and every the contracts, conditions, and agreements above mentioned, on the part and behalf of the said Robert Campbell and his partners, to be kept, done, and performed, he, the said Robert Campbell, bindeth himself, his partners, his and their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, unto the said Philip Gidley King, Esquire, for and on behalf of His Majesty, in the penalty or sum of one thousand pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain, to be recovered and paid by these presents. IN WITNESS whereof he, the said Robert Campbell, on behalf of himself and partners, hath set his hand and seal to the one part hereof, and to the other part hereof the said Philip Gidley King, Esquire, for and on behalf of His Majesty, hath also set his hand and seal the day and year first above written. PHILIP GIDLEY KING. SIGNED SEALED and delivered (no stamps being used in the JNO. PALMER. N. MACKELLAR. [Enclosure No. 9.] LIST of Articles remaining in His Majesty's Stores New South Wales this 10th March, 1801, the use to which they are to be Applied and the Quantities necessary to be sent out by the first Conveyance. 1801. 10 March. Commissariat returns. THE Governor having received a Treasury bill to the amount of Government the Government bills left in circulation in the colony, drawn by bills. SER. I. VOL. III-C THE late Acting Commissi ry having empowered the pewsent Arring ComiLissary to receive the debts Que from individuals 1: the Crown. to the truth of which the Governor has swŪTI. AS IN SE vaarzes appear in the ledger delivered to Mr. Lapok the Gorumi e “inks it proper to agua.lt those who the wo indetted that they Dybdate the saine on or before the Sixt day of beat Ie viber, »Czerwise they will be proceeded agüist acoring 10 law. Wednesday, 15th wis own. I son, Every vessel (not a rowing boste being rigged. For permission to go to Botany Bay or Hawkesbury Ditto at re-entry For permission to go beyond Broken or Botany Bay, for each vessel Ditto at re-entry , No vessel is to break bulk on entering this port mutil reported and entered at the Naval Officer's office. Moties arising from these regulations to be appropriated to the Orphan Fund Governor Hunter having detained the Buffalo another day to give the Commissary an opportunity of settling the claims he has on individuals on the part of the Crown, such persons who are indebted on that account are to attend the Commissary at Government House, at six o'clock to-morrow morning, to get their respective accounts adjusted. Friday, 17th October, 180O. [A copy of this order was forwarded as Enclosure No. 4 to the despatch of Acting-Governor King to Under Secretary King, dated 18th October, 1800.] Saturday, 18th October, 1800. WHEAT, maize, or fresh pork given into the stores in payment for debts due to the Crown, will be received at the former prices until the debts due (up to this date) are paid. Sunday, 19th October. 1800, IN the Governor's absence from headquarters at Sydney, all reports are to be made to the Acting Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel Paterson. The depredations committed in gardens, &c., by swine being suffered to range about, without being yoked or wrung, and the 1801. 10 March. Governor being unwilling to prevent their picking up such food as chance may offer by being allowed to range at large, those possessed of that kind of stock are to get them yoked and wrung before Orders re next Saturday, otherwise they will be taken for the use of Government. Licences for the retail of spirituous liquors will be granted on Licenses for the 31st instant. The Acting Lieut.-Gov'r and magistrates will sale of spirits. recommend eight persons who they may judge deserving of that indulgence. Saturday, 25th October, 1800. ALL those who have taken prisoners off the stores are to appear as Assigned underneath to sign for such servants, and to receive printed copies servants. of the terms on which their labour is assigned:-Those in and about Sydney, at Government House, on Friday, 31 October; in and about Parramatta, at Government House there, on Monday, 3rd November; in and about Hawkesbury, at Mr. Grimes's, on Thursday, 6th November. Such persons as do not attend will be deprived of their servants. This Order does not include those officers and others who may have signed for their respective convicts. Monday, 27th October, 1800. THERE being only one captain of the New South Wales Corps to Military do duty at headquarters, Lieutenants Piper and McKellar are to appointments. have the local rank as captains. Licences to sell and vend excisable liquors by retail will be Licenses for granted to those recommended by the magistrates to the Governor sale of spirits. on the 1st day of November annually; and whoever retains liquors in their houses for sale and retail without a licence shall forfeit £10 for each offence, and in case of refusal or neglect to pay the same being lawfully demanded, shall be committed to hard labour on board the hulk for two months. The justices by whom such conviction is made may commit as above instead of levying the penalty. And if any person not authorised retail strong drinks they will not only be subject to the above penalties but also forfeit all such strong drinks found in their custody, or in the house where such offence was committed. And if any person shall again offend in like manner, exclusive of the above penalty, they will be kept to hard labour for the space of three months on board the Supply hulk. Magistrates may grant their warrants to constables to enter and search houses, and other places, occupied by those guilty thereof, and seize all such strong drinks as they find until the matter of the offence is determined; and in case the offender be convicted the liquor so found will be forfeited, half to the informant and half to the Orphan Fund. Those who receive licences are to enter into recognizances, with Regulations two sufficient sureties in £10 each, and themselves in £20, that for public houses. the due assize of weight and measure of all victuals or liquor so allowed to be vended be kept and well and truly observed; and that no gambling, drunkenness, or other disorders be allowed of within their premises, but that good rule be maintained and kept, according to the existing and future regulations of this territory on that behalf. Persons licensed as victuallers or retailers of spirituous liquors or other strong drinks, entertaining any person from the beating 1801. 10 March. Orders re Regulations for public houses. Permits for removal of spirits. of the taptoo until the following noon, or during Divine Service, will be deprived of their license and incur a penalty of £5, half to the informer and half to the Orphan Fund. No trust or credit is to be given to any person whatever for liquor, or any other tavern reckoning, in any sum exceeding 20s., under the penalty of losing such debt; and in case they shall persevere to sue any such persons, knowing them to be soldiers, seamen, servants, or prisoners in Government employ, all such actions and suits shall be void, and the persons sued, or officers on behalf of soldiers and seamen, masters or mistresses on behalf of servants, and prisoners in their own behalf, being sued, shall and may plead this ordinance in barr, and the plaintiff shall be nonsuited and pay treble charges. Each person taking out a license will pay the sum of three pounds sterling to the treasurer of the Orphan Fund, and two shillings and sixpence to the clerk that makes out such license. There being much reason to suppose that spirits have been improperly landed and concealed at Farm Cove, and in other parts of the harbour, from whence they have been occasionally removed, no greater quantity of spirits or wine than half a gallon will be allowed to be removed from any one place or house to another without a permit, signed by the Governor, or officer in command at Sydney, and the magistrates at Parramatta and Hawkesbury. Two-thirds of the spirits or other strong drink thus seized will be given to the person making the seizure, and the other third to the Orphan Fund. Approbation of the New South Wales Permits for removal of spirits. Regulations for assigned servants. Tuesday, 28th October, 1800. THE Governor having reviewed the New South Wales Corps this day, is happy in the opportunity thus afforded him of signifying his marked approbation of the exactness and soldier-like behaviour of the regiment, which would do credit to the oldest regiment in His Majesty's service, nor can the Governor be unmindful of the unremitted attention of their lieutenant-colonel and officers in rendering them thus respectable, which, while it reflects great credit on the soldiers, does honor to every officer in the regiment. Thursday, 30th October, 1800. In addition to the Order of Monday last, the Governor directs that all Permits for Spirits to be removed from one House to another, or from Settlement to Settlement, not from on board Ship, are to be Signed by the Acting Lieutenant-Governor or Magistrate. Sydney, 31st October, 1800. OFFICERS and others, to whom the labour of prisoners is assigned, are to conform to the following conditions, viz. :-To maintain and clothe such as they employ; to give them a ration and clothes equal to that issued from the stores, for which they are to perform a Government task, as subjoined. And if the master can give them employment for the remainder of the time at the established rate they are to do his work in preference to any other person's. The master to provide them a sheltered lodging on his farm, or at his habitation, from which they are not to absent themselves without leave, nor in any case to go from one settlement to another without a pass from a magistrate. |