An Account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in New South WalesThe first book on Australian agriculture. |
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abundant acre afford allow alluvial lands attended bark barley black Natives breed brushes building bushel calves carry cattle clearing Colony convict servants county of Argyle Court of Sessions Courts covered cows crop cultivation dairy Dieman's Land dollars enclosed England especially expense extremely farm feed flock forest lands frequently Government Governor grain grant grazing ground growing herds horses improvement inches interior kangaroo kind labour maize Majesty's Government manner milk mortice Natives natural grass never night obtained oxen Parramatta perhaps persons places plants plenty plough Port Macquarie present principal produce proper purchase purpose quit-rent rivers roots season seed seldom Settlers sheep shillings soil South Wales sown Spanish dollars split stumps sufficient supply Sydney Thomas Brisbane tickets of leave timber tion tracts trees turnips usually Van Dieman's Land wheat whole wood yard
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Page 142 - An Act to provide, until the First Day of July, 1827, " and until the End of the next Session of Parliament, for the " better Administration of Justice in New South Wales and Van " Diemen's Land, and for the more effectual Government thereof, " and for other purposes relating thereto...
Page 123 - ... be paid within one calendar month from the day of sale, previous to which the purchaser will not be put in possession of the land ; and in case of payment not being made within the prescribed period, the sale will be considered void, and the deposit forfeited. 6. On payment of the money, a grant will be made in fee simple to the purchaser, at the nominal quit-rent of a pepper-corn.
Page 29 - ... rude habitations of bark, are still unreplaced with more comfortable dwellings of brick or timber ; and their families have been suffered to grow up without education, useful knowledge, or religious principles. I beg here to be understood as only alluding to the early settlers, and the lower orders of the present — what are technically termed in the colony Dungaree Settlers, from a coarse cotton manufacture of India, which forms their usual clothing : a more improvident, worthless race of people,...
Page 123 - Any purchaser who, within ten years after his purchase, shall, by the employment and maintenance of convicts, have relieved the public from a charge equal to ten times the amount of the purchase money, will have the purchase money returned, but without interest. It will be computed that for each convict employed and wholly maintained by the purchaser for twelve months, £16 have been saved to the public.
Page 125 - Persons desiring to receive grants of land, without purchase, on terms different from those above stated, must lay before the secretary of state a full explanation, in writing, of the circumstances which they may conceive to exempt them from the fair operation of these general rules. . COLONIAL OFFICE, DOWNING STREET, November, 1824.
Page 119 - ... such felons or offenders for drunkenness, disobedience of orders, neglect of work, absconding or desertion, abusive language to their, his, or her employers or overseers, insubordination, or other turbulent or disorderly conduct, and all such offences to punish by whipping or other corporal punishment, not extending to privation of life or member, or by removal to some other part or place in the said Colony or its Dependencies, and hard labour, according to the...
Page 123 - ... granted, and not appropriated for public purposes, will be put up to sale. — The price will of course depend upon the quality of the Land, and its local situation, but no land will be sold below the rate of Five Shillings per acre. 3. — All persons proposing to purchase Lands not advertised for sale, must transmit a written application to the...
Page 24 - The flesh of the wallaby is of a much finer flavour than the others. The brush kangaroo is found among rocks and places difficult of access. It differs from the other species in having a long bushy tail. The kangaroo rat and kangaroo mouse are two varieties of the same species ; the former is about the size of a rabbit, the latter is considerably smaller ; they also have the ventral sac or pouch on the lower part of the stomach. They prowl at night, and sleep during the day. The flesh of all the...
Page 124 - ... relieved the public from a charge equal to ten times the amount of the purchase money, will have the purchase money returned, but without interest. It will be computed that for each convict employed and wholly maintained by the purchaser for twelve months, £16 have been saved to the public. 9. Lands may also be obtained without purchase, but upon different conditions. 10. Persons desirous to become grantees without purchase, will make their application to the governor, in writing, in a prescribed...
Page 123 - A Division of the whole Territory into Counties, Hundreds, and Parishes, is in progress. — When that division shall be completed, each parish will comprise an Area of about Twentyfive square miles.