406 REGULATION OF PROPERTY. 
may be repaired by a simple numerical system 
of registration, such as is adopted in New 
Zealand. 
A wish having been expressed by the com- 
munity that grants of allotments should be 
made to unmarried females, who had reached a 
certain age, this recommendation will probably 
take effect, under the restriction, that, at their 
decease, the property which they had possessed 
should revert to the Crown. 
Firm and prudent measures have been taken 
for the regulation of property in the live-stock 
on the island. Owing to the deficiency of skilled 
labourers for the works, and to other causes, the 
inhabitants appear, in the early period of their 
residence on Norfolk Island, to have failed 
in making energetic efforts to replenish the 
supplies of sheep and cattle lost by disease, 
or slaughtered for food. With the view of 
remedying this state of things, Sir William 
Denison made the sheep Government pro- 
perty, and directed that they should be allowed 
to increase until they reached the original 
number of two thousand. The product of the 
wool and of the carcases serves to create a fund 
for the benefit of the islanders. His Excellency 
also procures goods at Sydney, which are des- 
patched, at proper intervals, to the storekeeper, 
Mr. Rossiter, for their use ; that is, for such as 
choose to purchase. 
In addition to the profitable results of their 
fishery, and the tuns of whale-oil which have been 
sent to Sydney for sale, the islanders, through the 
sagacity of one of their body, have discovered a 
