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Superintendant of Government Stock, as appears by his (Mr Jamiesons) letter, on account of his having refused to remove the Government Herds to Broken Bay where there is scarcely anything but Rocks and barren Ground, in order that his own Cattle might have the entire range of Government Ground in the Neighbourhood of Parramatta. As a farther insult to Government, he has sold a large ten oared Boat which had been kept for the Governors use, and has let out the Garden of Government House at Parramatta, by which the Governors Table was in part supplied; and the Premises are become degraded. He will perhaps state, for Major Johnston, that this is all done to procure money for public uses, as no one will take their Bills; but there would have been no occasion for the ruinous system had I been in power and therefore it is an highly additional offence to the Subversion of His Majesty's Government. McArthur has issued many licenses for selling spirituous liquors, to Persons, some of whom are well known to sell spirits for him and his Party. The worst of Characters have erected Signs to denote their authority of vending those liquors among whom a ferocious and merciless Jailer Daniel McKay (who was reinstated in that Office from which out of motives of humanity
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