ACCOUNT OF LIVE STOCK IN THE POSSESSION OF GOVERNMENT AND THE CIVIL AND MILITARY OFFICERS OF THE SETTLEMENT, ON THE 1ST OF SEPTEMBER 1796 -------------------------------
---------------------------------------- To whom Mares Cows Bulls Oxen Sheep Goats Hogs belonging and and and
                  Horses Cow-calves Bull-calves
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----------- To government 14 67 37 46 191 111 59 Officers civil and military 43 34 37 6 1310 1176 889 -----------
------------------------------------------------------------ Total of government and officers 57 101 74 52 1501 1287 948 To settlers — — — — 30 140 921 ----------------------------
------------------------------------------- General total 57 101 74 52 1531 1427 1869 ----------------------------------------
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The wild cattle to the westward of the river Nepean were not included in this account.

All kinds of poultry were numerous.

The following account of the land in cultivation was taken at
the same time: 
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To whom belonging Land in Observations
                    Cultivation
                     (Acres)
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To government 1700 (By our weakness in public labourers,
                                 (and wanting many necessary buildings,
                                 (the land cleared by government was
                                 (unemployed this year. 
Officers civil and military 1172 (About four fifths of which were at
                                 (this time sown with wheat.

Total of government
and officers 2872

To settlers 2547 {Of which much timber was cut down
                                 {but not burnt off. 
   General total 5419

It was satisfactory to those gentlemen who were now about to quit the colony to reflect that they left it not only with a prospect of plenty before it, but with stores and granaries abundantly filled at the time.  Of these, the judge-advocate and the commissary, who had been in the settlement from its establishment, had witnessed periods of distress and difficulty; but they had the gratification of seeing them fairly surmounted, and the probability of their ever recurring thrown to a very great distance.  In the houses of individuals were to be found most of the comforts, and not a few of the luxuries of life.  For these the island was indebted to the communications it had had with India, and other parts of the world; and the former years of famine, toil, and difficulty, were now exchanged for years of plenty, ease, and pleasure.