ound,
to be seized and destroyed.

_Stream running through the Tanks at Sydney_--no person
to throw filth into, nor to wash, clean fish, or erect pigsties
near; nor to take water up but at the tanks; under the penalty of
5L. to Orphans, if free, and the house razed; if a
prisoner, imprisonment, and hard labour for the crown for twelve
months.

_Strikes_.--No strikes are to be used for measuring
grain, but such as are stamped by superintending carpenters, who
are to charge one shilling each; and in case of any other strike
being used, the person offending to forfeit five pounds, and one
shilling for every bushel which has been measured.

_Sureties_.--Persons becoming sureties for individuals of
indifferent character, to forfeit the full amount of their
recognizance, if such decision is given before a bench of
magistrates.

_Swine_--found at large without ring and yoke, will be
forfeited to the Orphans.

_Taptoo-beating_.--Persons passing after, to answer
centinels when challenged, and to carry a lantern. None but known
householders to pass, except officers of vessels, who are to make
themselves known, under penalty of confinement.

_Timber_--to be taken, if wanted for government purposes,
wherever found growing on grounds located by the crown to
individuals. No private individual to damage or remove any
timber, but by permission from the owner of the land, or from the
governor, upon crown lands; penalty, prosecution. And all timber
exported, to be paid for to Orphans 3L. per 1000 feet
solid; returns of all embarked to be made to the wharfinger,
under the penalty of 5L. for each neglect. Exotic timbers
exempted from the general claim of government, and to be the
exclusive property of the owner; but, if disposed of, the crown
to have the preference.

_Vagrants, and idle and disorderly Persons_--to be sent
to public labour, for a time to be limited by the
magistrates.

_Vendue_--no person to sell goods by, unless licensed,
those exempt by act of parliament excepted, under the penalty of
50L. to the Orphans.

_Vendue Master_--to give a daily account of sales to the
treasurer of the Orphan fund, to which institution 1 1/2 per
cent. is to be paid from the proceeds of sales. He is also to
furnish a list of articles to the treasurer, previous to the
auction, under the penalty of forfeiture of recognizances he
enters into at the time he is appointed to that situation.

_Vessels_--to pay the following dues and