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TRANSPORTATION
TOWN ALLOTMENTS.
January 16 1 0 £576 18 4
February 8 0 0 121 0 0
March 17 2 0 550 13 4
May 28 0 37 1,919 11 6
June 11 0 0 25 6 8
Total No. of acres 80 3 37 £3,193 9 10
Total for the six months 170,014 3 22 £ 58,079 6 9


Extent and proceeds of land sold in New South Wales
during the years under-mentioned.
Year Extent in acres Amount
1832 20,860 1 15 £6,513 11 6
1833 29,001 2 3 12,528 0 8
1834 91,399 1 31 ½ 28,589 10 5
1835 271,945 2 3 ¾ 87,097 9 2
1836 till June 30. 170,014 3 22 58,079 6 9


This amount, however, large as it is beyond all reasonable anticipation, is likely to be doubled, if not immediately, at least very soon after the colonial boundary to the southward shall have been extended to Bass's Straits,[1] and the extensive tracts of land of the first quality, in the

  1. ↑ This, I understand, has already been done.
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