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Government Gazette
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1849.
His Excellency the Governor directs the
re-publication, for the information of depart-
ments and others concerned, of the following
notices:—
Colonial Secretary's office,
Sydney, 20th Feb , 1841.
His Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified that all petitions or applications
from or on behalf of any prisoner of the
crown, upon which hie Excellency's decision
may be required, and which may not be
specially directed under any regulation to be
sent through the bench of magistrates or
otherwise, are in future to be addressed direct
to the Principal Superintendent of Convicts,
who will obtain and communicate the Go-
vernor's pleasure thereon.
All communications of officers in charge
of convicts, magistrates, and assignees in
matters relating to convicts, are in like man-
ner to be transmitted through the same
officer.
FAMILIES OF CONVICTS.
Colonial Secretary's office,
Sydney, 27th Aug., 1847.
His Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified, that her Majesty's government
have determined to revive the practice of
forwarding to this colony, at the public ex-
pense, the wives and families of married
convicts who have become free by pardon or
otherwise, or who have obtained tickets of
leave, and who may be recommended by the
Governor as worthy of that indulgence.
2. Those persons who have already ob-
tained tickets of leave, or any higher degree
of liberty, or whose terms of transportation
have expired, and who may be desirous of
being joined by their families, will make
application in the annexed form, to the Prin-
cipal Superintendent of Convicts.
3. Every such application must be sup-
ported by the recommendation of two or
more respectable persons known to the go-
vernment, and satisfactory assurance must
be afforded that the applicant has the means
of supporting his family.
4. In like manner, convicts at present
under sentence will be allowed to apply for
the above indulgence, as soon as they have
obtained tickets of leave, but not before.
5. Those persons whose applications were
forwarded to the Secretary of State under
the Regulations of 6th May, 1833, but were
not then complied with, will be required to
make fresh applications in the accompanying
form.
By his Excellency's command,
E. DEAS THOMSON.
Form of Application :
I, A.B., per ship——, beg respectfully
to request that my wife and children (or
wife only, or children only, as the case may
be,) may be provided with a passage to this
colony.
I am at present following the occupation of
——, in the service of Mr.——,
at——(or otherwise, as the case may be).
I have the honor to be, sir, &c. —— ——
The Principal Superintendent }
of Convicts, &c. }
Wife's maiden name.............. ———
Present residence................... ———
County..................................... ———
Town or parish, &c............... ——
Children.
Names.
Ages.
Persons to whom applicant's family are
known.
Names.
Residences.
We hereby certify that A.B. is a well con-
ducted man, and that he has the means of
supporting his family.
C. D.
E. F.
PETTY SESSIONS.—CORRESPONDENCE.
His Excellency the Governor desires to
call the attention of the magistracy and
clerks of petty sessions in country districts to
the necessity for a strict observance of the
Regulation which directs that all communi-
cations to the government from benches of
magistrates, should be signed by the magis-
trates, or one of them, on behalf of the bench,
instead of being signed, as is frequently the
case, by ths clerk of petty sessions.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1849.
PETITION RESPECTING SUPPLY OF LABOR BY
A MODIFIED SYSTEM OF TRANPORTATION.
His Excellency the Governor directs the
publication of the following despatch, from
the Right Honorable the Secretary of State,
and of its enclosure, in reply to a petition
addressed to her most gracious, Majesty the
Queen by certain employers of labor in New
South Wales, praying that transportation
may be revived upon the principles recom-
mended in the report of a select committee
of the Legislative Council, or upon such
modifications thereof as may be deemed
expedient.
Downing-street,
August 16, 1848.
Sir—I have the honor to acquaint you that
I have received from the hands of Mr.
Francis Scott and some other gentlemen a
numerously signed petition, purporting to
proceed from all the principal classes of em-
ployers of labor in New South Wales, of
which document I enclose a copy for your
information.
It would have been far more regular that
this petition should have been transmitted
through the Governor, and I much regret
that the subscribers to it should have thought
it advisable to deviate from the usual course.
They may rely upon it that they can choose
no channel through which any wishes they
may be desirous to express can be transmitted
with greater advantage than through her
Majesty's representative in the colony.
You will acquaint the petitioners, however,
that I have laid their petition at the foot of
the throne. You are also aware that in the
general object at which it aims her Majesty's
government concur, and that they will be
very glad if means can be found of sending
out convicts, at a proper stage of their
punishment, so as both to furnish some addi-
tion to that supply of labor of which the
colony stands so greatly in need, and protect
it against the moral injury which the system
of transportation, as it formerly existed, in-
flicted upon it. The certainty of employment
in the colony, and the conditions which must
be fulfilled before the convict can obtain his
pardon and freedom, will, it is hoped, by
opening anew the prospect of respectability
and independence to him, secure these
objects.
But as I have received from yon resolutions
of the Legislative Council on this important
subject, it will be more appropriate to convey
to you in answer to that representation any
more particular Maternent of the views of her
Majesty's government.—I have, &c.,
(Signed) GREY.
Governor Sir Charles Fitz Roy,
&c., &c., &c.
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
The petition of the undersigned, bankers,
merchants, agriculturalists, stock-
holders, and others, employers of
labor in New South Wales.
Humbly sheweth
That your Majesty's petitioners are now
suffering great inconvenience and injury from
the want of an adequate supply of labor,
owing to the suspension of immigration, and
other causes beyond the power of petitioners
to control.
That the want of labor of which your
Majesty's petitioners thus complain becomes
every day more urgent, in consequence of the
additional demand which the natural increase
of cattle and sheep rapidly occasions.
That during the last two years the price of
labor has increased about 50 per cent., a rate
of increase incompatible with a fair profit
upon agricultural and pastoral investments,
whilst, on the other hand, the price of wool
(the staple of the colony) has fallen at least
45 per cent.
That, under these circumstances, many of
your Majesty's petitioners are not only pre-
cluded from extending their operations, but,
in some instances, the farmer has been
obliged to suspend them altogether, whilst
the owners of flocks and herds will soon have
no alternative left but to boil them down for
the mere tallow.
That such a state of things, if not speedily
remedied, must be productive of results
ruinous to the immediate interests of your
Majesty's petitioners, and disastrous to the
future prosperity of the colony.
Thut, under the pressure of such circum-
stances, your Majesty's petitioners have read
with much interest a despatch addressed to
the Governor of this colony by the Right
Honorahle W. E. Gladstone, dated 30th of
April, 1846, on the subject of the renewal of
transportation to this colony. They have
also read with much satisfaction the report of
a select committee of the Legislative Council,
to whose consideration the important despatch
in question was referred.
That your Majesty's petitioners would earn-
estly solicit your Majesty's gracious attention
to the facts and recommendations set forth
in the report of the select committee alluded
to, and humbly trust that they may have
sufficient influence on your Majesty's Coun-
cils to induce the resumption of transportation
to this colony upon the principles therein
recommended, or upon such modifications
thereof as may be deemed expedient.
That in the opinion of your Majesty's
petitioners such a measure would be equally
advantageous to this colony and to the
parent country, by opening out a cheap and
boundless field of reformation for her cri-
minals and support for her paupers, and thus
relieving her from the burthen of their main-
tenance in expensive establishments at home.
And your Majesty's petitioners, as in duly
bound, will ever pray, &c.
Signed by THOMAS AGARS.
D. LARNACH.
J. B. DARVALL.
And 449 other persons.
TITLE DEEDS.
The undermentioned deeds have been
transmitted from this office to that of the
Registrar General of New South Wales, for
enrolment, under the provisions of the Act
of the Governor and Legislative Council,
7th Vic, No. 16, to be by him forwarded
through the Surveyor General to the Colo-
nial Treasurer, by whom notification of their
receipt at his office will be made to the
grantees by letter, after which they will be
delivered on application, viz.: —
Town Allotments.
Proclamation or 2nd June, 1848.—Deeds
dated 30th October, 1848.
25. Joseph Allen, 2 roods, Dungog, lot 67.
26. Thomas Smith, 2 roods, ditto, lot 68.
27. Hugh Evans Shanklin, 2 roods, ditto,
lot 70.
28. Lewis Gordon, 2 roods, Scone, lot 71.
29. Ditto, 2 roods, ditto, lot 72.
Proclamation of 3rd August, 1848.—Deeds
dated 80th November, 1848.
41. William Lowe, David Farquahar, Thomas
Holmes, James Williams, and John
Charles Williams, in trust for a school
house, 2 roods, Clarence Town, lot 11.
42. John Miller, 2 roods, ditto, lot 12.
43. Ditto, 2 roods, ditto, lot 13.
44. Ditto, 2 roods, ditto, lot 14.
53. John Gouldsbury Lennon, 2 roods, Mait-
land, lot 23.
54. Ditto, 2 roods, ditto, lot 24.
82. Robert Tuite, 2 roods, Merriwa, lot 77.
83. Ditto, 2 roods, ditto, lot 78.
84. William Leard, 2 roods, ditto, lot 79.
85. Ditto, 2 roods, ditto, lot 80.
86. Charles Thompson, 2 roods, ditto, lot 81.
87. Ditto, 2 roods, ditto, lot 82.
88. Ditto, 2 roods, ditto, lot 83.
89. Susanna McNaught, 2 roods, ditto, lot 84.
90. James Sherwood, 2 roods, ditto, lot 85.
91. William Leard, 2 roods, ditto, lot 86.
92. James Keely, 2 roods, ditto, lot 87.
93. Robert Tuite, 2 roods, ditto, lot 88.
94. William Leard, 2 roods, ditto, lot 89.
105. Pierce Landers, 2 roods, Dungog, lot
100.
106. Dennis Tierney, 2 roods, ditto, lot 101.
Portions of Land.
Proclamation of 3rd August, 1848.—Deeds
dated 16th December, 1848.
145. Joseph Croft, 2 acres 1 rood, Durham,
lot 1.
146. Thomas Leonard, 2 acres 1 rood, ditto,
lot 2.
147. Samuel Walters, 2 acres 2 roods, ditto,
lot 3.
148. James Hamilton, 2 acres 2 roods, ditto,
lot 4.
149. Thomas Bodman, 2 acres 2 roods, ditto,
lot 5.
150. Ditto, 2 acres 2 roods, ditto, lot 6.
151. Samuel Walters, 2 acres 1 rood, ditto,
lot 7.
152. Thomas Bodman, 2 acres 1 rood, ditto,
lot 8.
153. Ditto, 2 acres 1 rood, ditto, lot 9.
154. Ditto, 2 acres 2 roods, ditto, lot 10.
155. Ditto, 2 acres 2 roods, ditto, lot 11.
156. Peter Conely, 2 acres 2 roods, ditto,
lot 12.
157. Ditto, 2 acres 2 roods, ditto, lot 13.
158. Thomas Bodman, 2 acres 1 rood, ditto,
lot 14.
BANK LIABILITIES AND ASSETS.
The following general abstract of the
average amount of the liabilities and assets
of the Commercial Banking Company of
Sydney, during the quarter from the 30th
September to the 31st December, 1848,
having been transmitted to the Colonial
Secretary's Office, as required by the second
section of the Act of Council, 4th Vic, No.
13, his Excellency is pleased to direct its
publication in conformity with the same
clause in the said Act.
Liabilities. £ ⫶ s. ⫶ d.
Notes in circulation. 23,213 ⫶ 10 ⫶ 9
Balances due to other banks 16 ⫶ 11 ⫶ 2
Deposits. 144,987 ⫶ 6 ⫶ 11
Total amount of liabilities. .£168,217 ⫶ 8 ⫶ 10
Assets. £ ⫶ s. ⫶ d.
Coined gold and silver, and
other coined metals. 74,245 ⫶ 7 ⫶ 10
Notes and bills of other
banks. 45 ⫶ 7 ⫶ 8
Balances due from other
banks. 13,848 ⫶ 8 ⫶ 6
Amount of all debts due to
the bank. 152,545 ⫶ 14 ⫶ 9
Total amount of assets-£242,684 ⫶ 18 ⫶ 9
Amount of the capital stock
paid up at this date....... £71,765 ⫶ 5 ⫶ 0
IMPOUNDINGS.
At Tamworth, on the 12th of January,
from the run of George Jenkins, Esq., J.P.,
for trespass, damages 3d. per head—One
yellow and white spotted bullock, CD or GD
near rump, C or G near shoulder ; one red
bullock, white belly, like A near rump, 3
near ribs ; one strawberry cow, IC off ribs
and rump; one black cow, white belly, T, 4
under, off rump and thigh, HS off ribs; one
red and white steer, like JM off rump, CI
near ribs; one red and while bullock, AS off
rump, S within brand off thigh ; one straw-
berry bullock, like HC off rump, 44 off thigh ;
one strawberry bullock, notch near ear, like
JTM near rump ; one red sided stag, D, TM
over, near rump and thigh, piece out near
ear; one red cow, white belly, unbranded;
one red heifer calf, unbranded, 4 months
old; one brindle sided bullock, like HH off
ribs; one yellow and white cow, like SM off
rump ; one yellow and brindle and white
heifer, unbranded, 18 months old ; one brown
and white heifer calf, unbranded, 4 months
old. Also, on the 17th, from Neminga, for
trespass, damages 3d. per head—One yellow
and white heifer, JC, 6 under, or JG, 6
under, off ribs; one brindle and white bul-
lock, JC off ribs, C off shoulder, WC near
ribs and rump; one red and white spotted
heifer, like JC conjoined, A off ribs, <;, R;
off ribs ; one red and white steer, PS off rump
and thigh ; one strawberry cow, like O near
rump, brand under not legible, like 6 near
ribs; one brindle heifer, ear marked, KH or
RH near ribs and rump, blotch brand under;
one strawberry cow, H, J under, conjoined
near rump, DI near ribs, WR, AL over, off
rump, a M conjoined off thigh, J, K over,
conjoined off thigh, with A sideways, notch
off ear. If not duly released in twenly-four
days will be sold. [18s. 6d.
At Singleton, Patrick's Plains, on the
19th of January—One light grey horse,
branded near shoulder P, M over, in circle,
long tail, 3 years old, 15½ hands high ; one
buy horse, branded near shoulder P, IG
under, in circle, near hind foot white, small
star in forehead, 3 years old, 15 hands high ;
damages 1s. each ; one yellow or dun bul-
lock, branded off hip CW, off side cheek S,
tip off tail ; one bay filly, star in forehead,
black points, branded like H, with V or Y
under, off shoulder, roman nose, 2 years old,
14 hands high ; damages 3d. each. On the
11th of December, 1848—One red bullock,
branded near ribs 4, off thigh GR, white
belly, rump, and shoulder; notice sent to
owner. If the above cattle are not claimed
on or before the 17th of February, they will
be sold. [12s. 3d.
At Muswell Brook, from Skellatar, on the
18th of January, for bush trespass—One
brindle bullock, slit in off ear, broken horns,
blotch brand before C off rump; one red
bullock, near ear slit, WJ off rump, C within
circle near thigh ; one light brindle bullock,
blotched brand before Y near ribs, C before
blotch brand near rump, R reversed, with L
conjoined, off ribs, blotch brand in a circle
under ; one red bullock, near ear slit, D , E
under, off rump, S in circle off thigh ; one
grey dappled mare, sore back, WJ off aide
neck, TC near shoulder, illegible brand before
JR under; damages 3d. per bead. If not
released before the 19th February, they will
be sold. [11s.
At Merriwa, on the 18th of January, from
the estate of C. Blaxland, Esq., for grass
trespass—One brindle and white snail horn
steer, illegible brand near hip, 18 months
old ; one strawberry cow, ES, ES under, off
side hip, aged ; one red and white steer, WB,
2 under, near hip, 2 years old ; one brindle
sided cow, white back, belly, down horns,
strawberry face, 52, ;Y under, S under, off
shoulder, aged ; damages 6d. each.
[10s. 6d.
Printed and published by RICHARD Jonss,
at the " Maitland Mercury" Office, High-
street, West Maitland.
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