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The increase of population during Macquarie's long rule, and the various duties of the Governor, furnished a strange mixture of notifications in his Gazette.' They were published to tell the inhabitants that if they did not repair the streets opposite their places he would tax them and do the work, but hoped it would be unnecessary to protect the tank-stream from pollution; to prevent forestalling; to prohibit any one from the "high offence of buying any corn or other victuals in any market and selling it again in the same market or within four miles thereof;" to advise more decent clothing" of some persons he had seen during a late "extensive tour of inspection;" to regulate the landing, the duty on, and the sale of spirits; to establish tolls, pounds, and markets; to widen the streets, and invite people to remove back their enclosures, "houses in the way being re-erected at the public expense;" to compel the yoking and ringing of pigs; to destroy "degenerate and useless dogs; to guard the Government Domain from damage to soil or shrubs "on pain of prosecution for felony;" to cause registration of carts and waggons; to prevent giving wheat to "dogs, pigs, or cattle until the next harvest shall be secured;" to prevent grantees from selling their land within five years of the deed of the date of grant; to warn persons to whom cattle were allotted from the government herds that they should not sell them within three years, and to caution intending purchasers that the cattle were-for that period-" considered the real property of the Crown;" to announce that cattle not distinctly marked, joining the government herds, would be considered government property; to exhort sufferers from floods at the Hawkesbury to remove their habitations to the high grounds which his Excellency's "solicitude for their welfare had marked out for their secure retreat;" to promulgate his observations after his tours, in one of which he said of the site of George Town in Van Diemen's Land, that of that "enchanting situation an adequate description cannot be given;" to publish the General Order of the court-martial on Colonel Johnston "for the information and guidance of the troops serving in this colony;" to tell the disobedient that if they did not present their receipts