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Public Buildings and Works
undertaken during the Administration of Governor Lachlan Macquarie [1 JANUARY
1810 TO 30 NOVEMBER 1821]
AT PORT MACQUARIE
1. A weather boarded
one story House with a verandah and necessary out offices for the
residence and accommodation of the Commandant, with a garden enclosed and
attached
thereto.
2. Temporary Weather boarded barracks for two subaltern Officers and one
Assistant
Surgeon.
3. Temporary Weather boarded barracks for 100 Soldiers with kitchen gardens
attached
thereto.
4. A weather boarded Barrack for the accommodation of the Superintendant of
Convicts
with a kitchen garden attached to it.
5. A weather boarded Barrack for the accommodation of the Chief Constable.
6. A range of large well constructed temporary Bark Huts for the accommodation
of
300 male convicts with kitchen gardens attached thereto.
7. A weather boarded Provision Store and Granary enclosed with a strong
stockade.
8. A weather boarded Guard House close to the Landing Place.
Comment: The settlement of Port Macquarie having only been very
recently
established, little or no improvements have yet been made in it, but it was very
regularly laid out with the streets at right angles.
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