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done, on Saturdays. Those of this description 

 who are industrious employ a great part of their 

 leisure time in cultivating pieces of ground 

 j for their own use, or labouring for others. 



The second and a part of the fifth and sixth 

 classes, making together 331 persons, support 

 themselves by the produce of their labour with- 

 out expense to the crown; as the clothing 

 with which they and the settlers are occasion^ 

 ally furnished from the stores is paid for in 

 grain or stock. 



ORDINARY PRICE OF LABOUR, 



To a convict taken off the stores by an officer 



or settler, from 51. to 61. per annum. 

 fc To a freeman hired by the year, victualled 



and clothed, from 101. to 12l. per annum. 

 A day's work for a labourer, with victuals, is 



3s. without, 5s. 

 Cutting down and burning off an acre of 



wood, gl. 

 Ditto, ditto, an acre of weeds, 11. 10s. 

 Thrashing one bushel of wheat, lOlbs. equal 



to Is. 8d. 



Other works are in proportion. . The mode 

 of payment for labour is various, and depends 

 entirely on the employers circumstances ; but it 

 is in general made by what arises from the grain 

 or fresh pork put into the stores by settlers, &c. 

 sometimes (but very rarely) in cash ; and often, 



