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Public Buildings and Works
undertaken during the Administration of Governor Lachlan Macquarie [1 JANUARY
1810 TO 30 NOVEMBER 1821]
AT BATHURST
1. A brick built
House with the necessary out offices and a good orchard and kitchen garden
for the use of the Commandant.
2. A brick built Barrack, two stories high, for the accommodation of the
Military
Detachment stationed here.
3. A brick built Provision Store and Granary for the troops and convicts.
4. A brick-built Barrack for the accommodation of the Storekeeper.
5. A brick-built Barrack for the accommodation of the Chief Constable and
Superintendant
of Convicts.
6. A weather boarded Barrack for the principal Overseer of Government stock.
7. A large brick built Barn with lofts for wheat and maize.
8. Temporary log houses as Barracks for 50 male convicts. There are kitchen
gardens
attached to all the foregoing buildings and enclosed with strong fences.
9. Three hundred acres of land for the purposes of cultivation and grazing
enclosed with
strong fences and subdivided into fields for the use of Government.
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