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I.
PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE SETTLEMENT AT PORT JACKSON.
General Return of the four Companies of Marines, doing duty in the settlement of New South Wales.
Return of the OFFICERS.
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II.
Artificers belonging to the Marine Detachment, employed from the 17th May to the 30th September, 1788, both Days inclusive.
[These tables are not included here.

Refer to html version of this ebook available from http://gutenberg.org] These artificers were employed on the representation of the Lieutenant-Governor to Governor Phillip, that it was impossible to erect the barracks necessary for the officers and men of the detachment, without employing such artificers for that purpose as could be found among themselves.

It was at the same time represented, that these men could not properly be retained at such work, unless they were to be paid in the customary manner of paying all troops employed on extra works for the public service: and more especially, as it was known that the artificers taken from the ships of war and transports were to be paid for all work done on shore.
Governor Phillip agreed entirely as to the necessity of employing the artificers, and with respect to their pay, had no doubt that the matter must be decided by custom: In consequence of which he issued an order for that purpose on the 17th of May, 1788.
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