cognizable; _viz_. 31st of March, 30th of June, 30th of
September, and 31st of December.

_Weights and Measures_--to be true, and stamped as such,
under the penalty of ten pounds to Orphans, for every weight or
measure which is defective.

The internal regulations, from which the preceding abridgment
was taken, are the leading features of the General Orders issued
by all those who have administered the government of the colony
up to the secession of Governor King, and are frequently altered,
or annulled, according to the variations in the local
circumstances of the country: since which period, however, a
number of other orders and proclamations have been issued, by
those who have subsequently held the command in the settlement;
but the notice of which, as well as of all political matters,
must unavoidably be deferred until some future period, from the
peculiar circumstances under which I am at present placed.

* * * * *
On the 12th of August, 1806, Governor King was succeeded in
his command at the settlement by Governor Bligh, who arrived from
England for that purpose; at which period the colony was in a
state of growing prosperity, notwithstanding the progress of
cultivation was considerably retarded by the frequent
overflowings of the Hawkesbury, which never failed to produce
such extensive injury to the settlers on its banks, as would have
been sufficient to discourage men of much more industry and
perseverance than many amongst them.