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The depravity of the convicts rapidly increas- 

 ing, the Governor resolved on building a larger 

 log prison both at Sydney and Paramatta, and 

 " as the affair cried haste," a quantity of logs 

 were ordered to be sent in by the various set- 

 tlers, officers, and others, by which means the 

 carpenters had as many or more than they 

 could use ; at this time it was discovered that 

 many convicts attended the delivery of provi- 

 sions from the stores, both at Sydney and 

 Paramatta, answering to their own or another 

 name at both places, to prevent a repetition, of 

 which the delivery was ordered to take place in 

 the future on the same hour at both stores. 

 Indeed, so incorrigible were some of the con- 

 victs, particularly those of the goal gang, that 

 they were ordered to work every Sunday on the 

 highway, as a punishment, and in an excursion 

 the Governor made to Paramatta, he recovered 

 nearly 100 men as labourers for Government, 

 who had absconded from the other settlements. 

 On the 16th of October, a boat sent to the 

 North shore for wood, brought in a man's hat, 

 which was found with a hammer laying near it ; 

 some blood was found in the hat, and on 

 searching, the body of a: man was discovered 

 near the water side. On the next morning a 

 man murdered a woman, with whom he lived. 

 During this month the houses at Paramatta and 

 Sydney were numbered, divided into districts, 

 and one inhabitant chosen in each, as a security 

 for the peace being kept in the division,* and 

 an appointment took place of three watchnunt, 





