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you think proper when any person is going that way it can be settled or left alone. I also inclose you a Receipt of Suters in case that is not settled as I know Mr Sykes is very careless about Small Sums.
In my Return of Officers in the different Settlements to my Lord Hobart Camden, I have stated Patersons pay as Lieutt Govr of the Territory being only £250 on which he does the duty of Port Dalrymple, that Sum will hardly Find him Cloathes. I have said that any Augmentation of his pay would be acceptable & deserved. If any thing could be done in it I should be glad as he has certainly exerted himself very much in his present situation & is far from being at ease in pecuniary matters. I might with great propriety ask for an increase of my salary, or being allowed Table Money, but I shall endeavour to jig on as well as I can until I hear further.
McArthur intends writing you & speaks highly of your Petitions to him at the Sale of the Spanish Sheep in England. Of the Muster