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 Sullivan Bay, 20th Dec. 1803. General Orders. Parole — Brest. C. Sign — Bristol. Garrison Orders. Detail for duty only.

Sullivan Bay, 21st Dec. 1803. General Orders. Parole — Port Dalrymple. C. Sign — Flinders. The Commissary will immediately make a return to the Lieut.- Governor of the numbers of all descriptions of people in the colony, distinguishing them as civil, military, free settlers, free women, and prisoners, in order to enable him to make a distribution of them for the first embarkation in the Ocean transport for Van Dieman's Land.

The master of that ship having having informed the Lieut.-Governor that he shall be ready to receive the cargo on Friday morning, Mr. Clark, the superintendent, will select two able gangs of fifteen men each, under the overseers Joseph Meyers and John Whitehead, who are to attend every day at the store and the jetty, and assist in removing the provisions, &c., to the boats. The Commissary will make such, preparations at the store as will prevent any delay occurring in the removal of the various articles under his charge. Mr. Ingle will attend at the beach, and take the utmost care that none of the bale goods, dry provisions, or cases of tools and ironmongery receive any damage by the water. The superintendent, Patterson, will attend at the stores and direct the gang placed there. The Lieut.-Governor expects to see the same regularity and order preserved in these gangs that he noticed while the ships were unloading. All tools that are in the possession of individuals are to be forthwith sent to the public store, in order to their being packed u}). The Commissary will issue to each person in the settlement (women and children excepted, to whom he will serve only the usual proportion), one pound of raisins on the provision day next before Christmas, on which day Divine service will be performed in the forenoon, if the weather permits. Garrison Orders. The quartermaster will take the necessary measures for having the stores in his charge ready for embarkation when called upon for that purpose. He will number or otherwise mark all the marquees and tents at present occupied by the detachment, in order to their possessing the same again wherever they may be landed. Detail for duty.

Sullivan Bay, 22nd Dec. 1803. General Orders. Parole—Buenos Ayres. C. Sign—Cadiz. Garrison Orders. Detail for duty only.