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$792. state of New South Wales. 46, 
or private man, who may be disposed to continue in this coun- 
try, and inlist in the corps appointed for the service of New 
South Wales. And fhould their behaviour be good, they 
fhall, after a farther service of five years, be entitled to a 
double proportion of land, that would be granted them, 
provided they quit the service, at the relief of the marines, 
free of all taxes, fees, quit-rents, doc. for the space of fifteen 
years, subject, however, after that time, to the same ac- 
knowledgements as before. 
* His majesty has also willed, as a farther encou- 
“ragement to the above description of mien, that, upon 
their being discharged or relieved, or after a farther ser- 
vice of five years in the new corps, they thall receive, out 
of the public stores, a proportion of clothing for one year, 
together with a suitable proportion of seeds and grain for 
the tillage of land, and a proportion of tools and imple- 
ments proper for their use, for that time. And when any 
of them can feed and clothe such a number of convicts 
as may be judged necefsary for their use, for the time be- 
ing, to.afsist them in clearing and cultivating the land, 
the service of such convicts fhall be afsigned to them. 
‘No proposal has been made to-any of the officers, civil,. 
or military, nor do I hear that any of those to whom 
they have been made, have as yet resolved on accepting: 
them. 
‘The country, from all we have yet been able to ob- 
serve, is not by any means favourable to our withes. Some: 
of the free men, who are considered as judges in farming,, 
report the land at Rosehill to be light and sandy, and: 
equal to such as would be let for fifteen thillings an acre,. 
within three miles of Lewes in Sufsex ; but at a distance 
from a market town not above halfas much. And, ow 
making a calculation of the average price of land about. 
High Wycomb, in Bucks, they find, by three or four thou- 
sand acres, that it lets, on an average, at 19s: and Gd.. 
