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but proper directions were given to remove the 

 evil, and prevent a repetition of it. 

 , Lieut. Col. Paterson had, since he arrived, 

 introduced some regulations in the corps of 

 which he was sent out to take the command. 

 As his Majesty had augmented the pay of the 

 non-commissioned officers, drummers, and pri- 

 vates of the army, since the 2ith day of May 

 1797, under certain regulations with respect 

 to ftoppages, this regiment was to receive the 

 benefit of three-pence halfpenny per day, to 

 be dijbi&ed, as a payment for the ration issued 

 to them, and which the commissary was now 

 directed to serve, agreeable to the ration eftab- 

 lished by command for such troops as were 

 serving in Jamaica, Gibraltar, &c. &c. 



Col. Paterson was also instructed to com- 

 plete the companies of the corps, if he could 

 obtain proper characters for the purpose, in 

 consequence of which notice was given, in- 

 forming those free people, who could bring 

 with them satisfactory recommendations to the 

 colonel, they would be received for the regi- 

 ment. 



The great pains formerly taken, to enforce a 

 proper attention to the duties of religion, it 

 might rationally have been thought, would 

 have had a lasting effect ; but the orders and 

 regulations for the good government of New 

 South Wales, like the A6is of Parliament of the 

 mother country, were only observed at their 

 firft publication: again, therefore, was the 

 Governor obliged to call on all in authority, 



