Colonial Secretary's Papers

MACQUARIE, Lachlan.

1815

1815 Jan 9
Disappointed Bent would not frame proposed new Port regulations; required him, as only Crown law officer in Colony, to proceed with the drafting; enclosed answers to Bent's observations on the subject (Reel 6045; 4/1732 pp.3-8)

1815 Jan 11
Ellis Bent refusing again to revise Macquarie's new draft Port regulations, giving as reason not within his duties, also doubt of legality of regulations (Reel 6045; 4/1732 pp.9-11)

1815 Mar 4
Notice of hours during which Governor would receive public officers for business (Reel 6038; SZ759 p.46)

1815 Mar 23
General order; soldiers and other persons must not bathe or wash linen in tanks or springs which supply drinking water (Reel 6045; 4/1732 pp.90-1)

1815 Mar 25
Government order that, owing to shortage of specie, store receipts to be issued in future for all purchases made by Crown (Reel 6045, 4/1732 p.92; Reel 6049, 4/1745 pp.5-8)

1815 Mar 25
Government order; store receipts to be issued for payment of purchases for crown at out-stations as well as headquarters; form of receipt set out; store receipts to be consolidated every two months (Reel 6049; 4/1745 pp.5-8)

1815 Apr 8
General order for establishment of slaughter house at Cockle Bay for accommodation of public and Government (Reel 6045; 4/1732 pp.122-34)

1815 Apr 18
Recommending admission of attorneys who had been practising in the Courts of Civil Jurisdiction to the new Supreme Court (Reel 6045; 4/1732 pp.138-9)

1815 May 15
General order regulating times of sale of bread, vegetables, etc on Sunday in Sydney, Parramatta and Windsor; no stalls to be opened in the street, and no cattle to be slaughtered on Sunday (Reel 6045; 4/1732 pp.140-2)

1815 May 20
On return of horned cattle issued from the Government Herds between 8 May 1814 and 9 Jan 1819; for use on his Bathurst tour (Reel 6048; 4/1742 p.50)

1815 Jun 10
General Order describing journey over Blue Mountains to Bathurst in 1815 and permitting visits to new country only on written application (Reel 6038; SZ759 pp.100-14)

1815 Jul 7
General order amending sections of order of 5 Feb 1815, by allowing consolidation of dollars and store receipts every month instead of every three months, thus assisting merchants to avoid delays (Reel 6045, 4/1732 pp.178-9; Reel 6049, 4/1745 pp.9-10)

1815 Jul 8
General order regulating the days on which provisions from the King's stores were to be issued to various classes of persons (Reel 6045; 4/1732 pp.180-1)

1815 Jul 15
General order; convicts to remove hats or caps to civil or military officers when meeting or passing (Reel 6045; 4/1732 p.182)

1815 Aug 8
Indenture between Macquarie and persons to whom female convicts per "Francis and Eliza" were assigned (Reel 6045; 4/1733 p.15)

1815 Aug 18-Oct 2
Jeffery Hart Bent refusing to pay toll on turnpike roads, disputing legality of tax, and criticising method of collection and allocation of moneys collected and condition of roads; replies; subsequent action (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.16-47)

1815 Aug 19
Government & general order, duty on timbers from New Zealand to be reduced from 1/- per solid foot to 6d (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.1-2)

1815 Aug 19
Government & general order, no person to enter Government garden or domain at Parramatta or Windsor without special permission, no animals to be allowed to feed in domain (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.3-10)

1815 Aug 26
Government & general order, cattle put to graze on Government lands in Cowpastures, Lane Cove & Hunter's Hill districts to be impounded and owners prosecuted (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.11-4)

1815 Sep 2
Government & general order; summer allowance of fuel for troops & Government Departments to commence 10 Sep; coal only to be used in future as fuel, firewood being too expensive (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.49-50)

1815 Sep 9
Government order, tolls must be paid by all persons, no matter rank (Reel 6045; 4/1733 p.45)

1815 Sep 23
Government & general order, bakers to be licensed; their premises to have names painted in large letters & bread to be stamped with bakers' initials (Reel 6045; 4/1733 p.53)

1815 Sep 23
Government & general order, ticket of leave men to attend 2 o'clock service on Sundays at St Philip's Church, the church not being big enough to accommodate them & the ordinary congregation in the mornings (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.51-2)

1815 Sep 30
Government order; no person to send back to Government gangs assigned servants considered unqualified for the particular work in hand (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.54-5)

1815 Oct 26
Declining offer of Jeffery Hart Bent to undertake duties of Judge Advocate on departure of his brother, the former Judge Advocate (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.86-7)

1815 Dec 4
Earl Bathurst dealing with various matters that were the subject of despatches from Macquarie (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.94-116)

1815 Dec 9
General order; settlers must not graze herds or flocks on Crown lands without permission (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.89-90)

1815 Dec 9
General Order describing journey through interior to Nepean and Hawkesbury, measures to be taken against floods and drought (Reel 6038; SZ759 pp.158-62)

1815 Dec 9
Orders re persons going to Newcastle (Reel 6066; 4/1805 p.202)

1815 Dec 15
Government & general order; no gaoler, constable or peace officer to arrest persons on the street, night or day, except on authority of magistrates or military officers (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.92-3)

1815 Dec 18
Requesting all official documents of Judge Advocate's Department, left in Jeffery Hart Bent's care by Ellis Bent, to be handed over to Frederick Garling, now appointed Deputy Judge Advocate (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.118-9)

1815 Dec 20
Jeffery Hart Bent reporting that all records of Judge Advocate's Department, left by Ellis Bent, had been handed over to James Foster, Clerk to the late Judge Advocate (Reel 6045; 4/1733 p.120)

1815 Dec 29
John Blaxland seeking remuneration for his servants whose huts were plundered by natives; and Macquarie's answer (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.128-9)

Source:
State Records NSW Index to the Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825 [Electronic edition]
[Section: 'Macquarie, Lachlan (1812-Apr 1816)']
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/colsec/m/F36c_mch-mcw-15.htm#P6942_217321

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