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at one o’clock. The meat was issued daily from the stores 
to the cooks, who soaked it for twenty-four hours in fresh 
water, to extract as much of the salt as possible. The flour 
was made into good bread, of which each man received about 
two pounds per diem. The ration at this time, for convicts 
at penal settlements, consisted of— 
1 lb. 4oz. wheat meal, 
1 lb. fresh meat, or salt beef, 
or 
10 oz. salt pork, 
1J oz. soap, 
1 oz. salt. 
The hours of labour were, from — 
6 h .. to .. 9 o’clock, 
10 . 1 
2 . 6 
The men on the settlement were employed, some in the 
carpenters’ and shoemakers’ shops, some as tailors, tanners, 
masons ; about forty at the dock-yard, and the remainder at 
what was considered the most severe labour, landing the 
timber from the rafts, and piling up the logs. They rceiveed 
two suits of clothing per annum, which however they were 
not to consider their own, but government property; conse¬ 
quently they were held responsible for them ; with that re¬ 
striction they did what they pleased with them, altered their 
form, dyed them, Sc c. 
A set of regulations was always read to the men on their 
arrival, the least infringement of which was sure to bring 
condign punishment on the head of the culprit. Some of 
these regulations might appear trifling, to persons unac¬ 
quainted with the discipline necessary to be kept up at 
penal settlements, but as we shall have elsewhere to refer to 
regulations of that nature, we will not enlarge thereon just 
now. 
In all cases the offender w as regularly tried before the com- 
