44 state of New South Wales. May 16. 
pence and labours of the first colonists, were every where 
crowded by the new comers, both bond and free. And 
it was said that no houses could be considered as the pri- 
vate property of any individual on the settlement. 
‘ Our new guests exprefsed great concern at not 
finding every thing here in a very prosperous state; they 
had been led to believe that matters were in a very fair 
train, and that plenty of conveniences were ready for 
their reception at landing ; but they found quite the con- 
trary to be the case. 
‘ His excellency has ordered a town to be erected as fast 
as pofsible at Rosehill, and has employed all the artificers 
on that duty. They have already got up about an hun- 
dred huts, of one story, twenty-five feet long, by twelve 
broad each. The streets are to be two hundred feet wide*, 
and each hut is to be furnifhed with some garden ground 
backwards. Upon the whole, the plan seems to be made 
the most regular of any yet laid down at this place. 
‘ Since the arrival of fhips, the following terms have been 
offered to settlers, vz. 
‘To every non-commilsioned officer, an allotment of one 
hundred and thirty acres of land if single; and of one 
hundred and sixty acres if married. 
‘ To every private soldier, an allotment of eighty acres 
if single, and of one hundred if-married. And an allot- 
ment of ten acres of land to every child of such non-com- 
‘mifsioned officer, or private soldier, as may choose to 
settle. Such allotments to be free of all fees, taxes, quit- 
rents, and other acknowledgements, for the space of ten 
“years, but after the expiration of that time, to be liable to 
an annual quit-rent of one fhilling for every fifty acres. 
‘ His majesty has likewise willed that a bounty of three 
sounds per man be offered to each non-commifsioned officer 
* How will the grafs be prevented from growing in them? Edit. 
