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 SYDNEY'S LETTERS. 435 Staff Establishment for the Settlement of New South Wales :— Yearly Salaay. The Naval Commander appointed Governor or £• s. d. Superintendent-General 500 The Commanding Officer of the Marines to be appointed Lieutenant-Governor or Deputy Superintendent 250 The Commissary of Stores and Provisions, for him- self and assistants, to be appointed or named by the contractors for the provisions 200 Pay of a Surgeon £182 10 Pay of two mates 182 10 365 Chaplain 182 10 £1,497 10 1786 Estimates of expenditure. 1— Staff. Estimate of Clothing to serve a Male Convict for one year : — Value each. No. & d. £ 8. d. Jackets 2 4 6 9 Woollen drawers .^ 4 2 8 Hat I 2 6 2 6 Shirts 3 3 9 Worsted stockings 4 1 4 Frocks 3 2 3 6 9 Trousers 3 2 3 6 9 Shoes 3 4 6 13 6 2— Clothingr. £2 19 6 The expense of clothing female convicts may be computed to amount to the like sum. LORD SYDNEY'S LETTERS. Two letters written by Lord Sydney, Secretary of State for the Home Department, one to the Lords of the Treasury dated 18th Letters to August, 1786, and the other to the Lords of the Admiralty dated 31st August in that year, contained instructions for the supply and and equipment of the ships required for the expedition to Botany ^**"*"^*y- Bay. The letter to the Treasury began with the paragraphs quoted in the text, page 22, and then continued as follows : — In order that a proper degree of subordination and regularity may be preserved in this new settlement, his Majesty has been Digitized by Google