1801. 10 March. Orders re Funeral of Richard Dore. The estate of the late Richard Dore. Claims against deceased estates. Export of SOWS. Mr. William Sutter is appointed to act as Storekeeper and Acting Deputy Commissary at Parramatta. Sunday, 14th December, 1800. THE Governor requests that the remains of the late Richard Dore, Esq., Judge-Advocate of the territory, may be attended to the place of interment* by the civil and military, with such attentions as are suitable to his rank in the colony. The corpse will leave its late residence at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning. Monday, 15th December, 1800. THOSE indebted to the late Richard Dore, Esq'r, Judge-Advocate to the territory, are to deliver an account thereof to Captain McKellar, and make payment thereof to that gentleman on or before the 31st instant. And those to whom the above estate is indebted are to lay in their claims on Saturday next, and to prove them by a regular book entry or other unquestionable proof as directed by the Order of the 10th instant. Monday, 15th December, 1800. THE following Priority for the Discharge of Deceased person's debtst due to Residents or Agents in the Colony is in future to be observed, as far as they have Assets, viz. : 1st Medical Attendance (where claimable) and funeral expenses. 2nd Debts and Duties due to the King. 3rd Judgements. 4th Debts due by Recognizances. 5th Rents. 6th Objections, Bills final and protested Bills of Exchange. 7th Single Bills. 8th Servants and Workman's Wages. 9th Merchants and Tradesmen's Book Debts, a inan of Accounts etc. which said payments are to be allowed of by the Civil Court of Judicature. But this is not to preclude or justify any Executor or Administrator's refusal to discharge any just Debts, as the same shall come to their knowledge without regard to the priority of the same, in payment after the expiration of 12 months after the Decedants Death. Tuesday, 16th December, 1800. THE Governor directs that no sows be sent on board ship or be received on board, under the penalty of forfeiting such sow. Thursday, 18th December, 1800. Appointment of RICHARD ATKINS, Esq., is appointed to act as Deputy JudgeRichard Atkins. Advocate to this territory until His Majesty's pleasure is known. The Governor has directed the Commissary to deliver to Lieut.Col. Paterson the feathers that came with the hats lately arrived in this colony, which he makes the regiment a present of for their industry in forming the public parade. Feathers for the N.S.W. Corps. Sydney, 18th December, 1800. [A copy of this order was forwarded in Enclosure No. 5 to the despatch No. 3, dated 10th March, 1801, from Acting-Governor King to the Duke of Portland.] Saturday, 20th December, 1800. 1801. THE Governor, having contracted for 2,000 gallons of spirits, to be 10 March. divided among the officers, civil and military, who are not provided Orders re with any, the soldiers and settlers at this place, and at Norfolk Issue of Island, which will be distributed in the following proportions, for spirits. which money, Government or Paymaster's bills are to be given : Non-commissioned officers and soldiers Ditto at Norfolk Island gallons. 259 320 250 1,171 To be divided among officers, civil and military.. payment for which is to be made in the following proportions to the Commissary previous to the Royal Admiral's departure:Non-commissioned officers and soldiers. Settlers Officers 4s. per gallon. The Governor remits the assessment of 1s. per gallon to the regiment and to the officers for 40 gallons per annum each; all above that quantity to pay the assesssment. Friday, 26th December, 1800. the Crown. THE Commissary will direct the storekeepers at Sydney, Parra- Payment of matta, and Hawkesbury to receive into their charge such wheat debts due to as may be tendered by those who are indebted to the public stores, as directed by the Orders of the 14th October last. The storekeepers will attend every day next week between the hours of 9 and 2. servants. It having been represented to the Governor that it has been a Punishment custom for those to whom the labour of convicts has been assigned, of assigned as well as those allowed servants, to chastise them by horsewhipping, and beating them for real or supposed offences and neglect of work, the Governor feels himself called upon to put an immediate stop to those practices by referring to the General Orders of the 2nd of October last, wherein a mode is pointed out of bringing delinquents to justice; and as the Governor will not admit of any individual presuming to inflict that punishment, which must be openly awarded by a magistrate, he strictly forbids all officers, and every person, bond or free, from striking or ill-using any other person in this colony, on pain of being proceeded against according to law, or such other notice taken of the offence as the case may require. There being accoutrements arrived for mounting six privates Body-guard and a non-commissioned officer as a bodyguard to the Governor, for the Governor. Lieutenant-Colonel Paterson is requested to select that number from the regiment, to whom a daily pay of one shilling will be allowed to the non-commissioned officer, and sixpence per day each private, in addition to their regimental pay, to be paid in such articles as can be spared from the stores, or in money. Sunday, 28th December, 1800. FROM the constant state of alarm which the peaceable and loyal Assembling of inhabitants of this colony have been kept in for the last two military and volunteers on months, and the present restlessness of some turbulent characters, an alarm. the following arrangements are to be observed in case of any internal tumults. 1801. 10 March. Orders re Assembling of military and volunteers on an alarm. Licensed vendors of spirits. Punishment of convicts and expirees travelling without a pass. The field-pieces are to be kept constantly loaded with powder only, and the vent, priming. &c., examined every evening, by the officer of the day. A port fire is to be in readiness to fire on the least appearance of alarm or tumult, or that either the main guard or barracks are attacked. When a gun is fired from the barrack or main guard, the drums are to beat to arms. The regiment to form in front of the barracks, and to act as the Commanding Officer may see fit, and in conformity to any secret or other instructions he may receive from the Governor. The main guard to form in front of the guard house, within the paling, and to wait for orders, unless they are attacked, when the officer will act as he may judge proper, but not to quit that post without orders from the Governor or commanding officer of the troops, unless compelled, in which case he is to use every exertion to join the association or regiment. The Association, on the alarm being given, are to repair and form in front of the Governor's house, and there wait his orders; but if they should be impeded, they are to join the main guard or the regiment. The provost-marshal, civil officers, constables, superintendants, and inhabitants enrolled for active defence, are, on the alarm being given, to repair (with what offensive weapons they can immediately collect) to the highest windmill hill, and there wait for orders how to act, or being joined by the military. Every other description of persons, either male, female, or children, are to remain quiet and peaceable in their respective dwellings, as it will be impossible for the military to discriminate persons in case of alarm. All persons desirous of being enrolled for active service are to give their names in to Mr. Brady, Judge-Advocate's clerk, from 9 o'clock to 10 every morning, and to deliver an account of the offensive weapons they can arm themselves with. When this list is complete and regulated, they will be divided and occasionally mustered by a civil officer or superintendent to each division. Any person holding a license to retail spirituous liquors will be deprived thereof if any part of the Orders of 27th October last are disobeyed or neglected, and particularly that part wherein they are forbid entertaining any person whatever from the beating of taptoo to noon of the following day, or during the hours of Divine Service. This the magistrates will strictly enforce. Tuesday, 30th December, 1800. IF any convicts or persons whose terms of transportation are expired, and who are not settled, are found going from settlement to settlement without a pass from the magistrate-which will never be refused without sufficient cause-any person will receive 100 lashes and a year's imprisonment in the gaol gang. Prisoners or free people, not settlers, found going from one settlement to another without a pass from the magistrate specifying their business-which will never be refused without a very sufficient reason-and who neglects to deliver their pass to the magistrate they got it from, or to the magistrate at the place where they are going to reside, will be punished with 100 lashes and a year's imprisonment in the gaol gang at Sydney or Norfolk Island. As this is a repetition of several Orders that have formerly been given to the same effect, and have been as often disregarded as observed, it is to be understood by every person in this colony that after an Order is once issued it is to be constantly obeyed until revoked by the same authority that gives it. 1801. 10 March. Orders re Wednesday, 31st December, 1800. NOTWITHSTANDING the lenity shown to those concerned in a former Mutiny and attempt to create confusion in this colony, yet it appears that revolt. several restless and turbulent characters are still forming designs to promote their diabolical schemes for the destruction of all industry, public and private property, order and regularity, and to introduce murder, plunder, and every kind of horror and confusion. Several worthless vagrants have gone to the woods, subsisting by depredations on the industrious, whilst many others are not only plundering those to whom their labour is assigned, but are also neglecting their work, and leaving their employer's property to be destroyed by the idle and dissolute, who, from their former habits, manifest a preference of the life of indolence, plunder, and alarm to the certain benefits of a commendable and honest industry. The Governor, considering the duty he owes to his situation, and the security of the persons and property of the numerous loyal and well disposed inhabitants, that none of their despicable plans, or daring anonymous writings (similar to that forwarded to him previous to the execution of the pirates), will ever bias or slacken his exertions in detecting, and bringing to condign punishment every vicious and idle character. Disposed as the Governor has been not to credit every information he has received, yet the many corroborating evidences that have been given compels him to take the necessary measures for securing the peace of the colony. Anxious to believe that those evil designs have their only rise in the phrenzy of a few turbulent wretches, whose aim is confusion, he is willing to hope that when the different descriptions of persons in this colony reflect on the comforts and blessings they enjoy and may acquire in this colony, by a very moderate industry, and the expectation that every prisoner may entertain that if his behaviour is honest, industrious, and irreproachable, that he will in some measure be benefitted by it. These considerations, it is expected, will create confidence, and prevent future ridiculous plans, which are contrived by the artful villains to deprive the industrious of their comforts, who in the end do not fail to sacrifice those they have employed to obtain their ends, of which the two criminals now under sentence of death, and who were deserted by their artful companions, is a sufficient proof how little confidence they can place in each other. Should this intention and hope of the Governor's be frustrated by any renewal of what he hopes to hear no more about, he will then consider it his duty to adopt such measures as are most likely to ensure that tranquility which must not, and shall not, be interrupted with impunity. John Harris, a licenced victualler, and retailer of spirituous liquors, having given spirits to two convicts for their week's rations of salt meat from the public stores, is deprived of his licence, Revocation of and the Government has directed all his liquors to be staved. license. There is every reason to be assured that this transaction has Exchange long been carried on, in direct disobedience to every regulation of spirits. made on that head, not only by the above delinquent, but also by for rations. 1801. 10 March. Orders re Appointment of master carpenter. several other persons. If the convicts, who have no means of maintenance but by the ration they receive from the store, are invited to part with it for a taste of spirits, they must consequently rob those who are nearest to them for support during the remainder of the week, which consequently leads to a train of other evils that must be put a stop to. If any person in the colony presumes to give a convict spirits, or any other consideration, for their ration, or any article furnished from the public stores, they will be punished as the law directs for receiving stolen goods, and, if licenced, will lose their licence, and all strong drinks found in their possession be staved. Sunday, 4th January, 1801. THOMAS WHITTER is appointed Master Carpenter in the room of James Puckey, discharged for neglect of Duty. 6th January, 1801. Appointment of MR. MASON is appointed to act as a magistrate for the districts of magistrate. Parramatta and Toongabbie. Garden Countersign. Debts due to the Crown. Public auctioneer. 7th January, 1801. GARDEN ISLAND being appropriated as a garden for the Lady Nelson, no person is to land there but with Lieutenant Grant's permission, or the Governor's in his absence. It is to be understood that wheat and all kinds of live stock is a legal tender for all debts contracted in this colony, provided the price sued for does not exceed that given by Government when purchased from settlers or other private cultivators. 8th January, 1801. THE Countersign in future will be given, sealed up, to such person only as the Governor and Commanding Officer of the regiments or detachments may judge proper. After beating the taptoo, masters and officers of ships who have occasion to be ashore may apply to the Governor's aid-du-camp or the adjutant of the regiment, and no other person is to give the countersign to any person whatever. The centinels are to pass all officers, civil and military, on making themselves known by telling their names. 12th January, 1801. NOTWITHSTANDING the Orders of the 14th of October, and of the 3rd and 26th December last, not more than four persons have paid the debts they owed to Government from 1796 to last September. Should those thus indebted continue to withhold payment, either in wheat, animal food, or money, the Governor will with much reluctance cause those thus indebted to be proceeded against according to law. 15th January, 1801. Nor more than one vendue master will be allowed in future to despose of any wares, goods, or merchandize by auction, or by candle, within the present limits of this territory, such vendue master to be elected by the magistrates by vote, and to be approved of by the Governor. He is then to give sufficient security in the sum |