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The Labour-rate Act passed without opposition: entitled, An Act to Facilitate the Employment of the Labouring Poor Its provisions Government Minute explaining them Heads of Minute Rate of wages Dissatisfaction with it Commissary-General Hewetson's letter Exorbitant prices Opinion expressed on this head by an American Captain The Government will not order food as Sir B. Peel did Partial and unjust taxation Opposition to the Labour-rate Act Reproductive employment called for Lord Devon's opinion Former works not to be completed under the Act Minute of 31st of August Modified by Mr.
Captain Nairne, Lieutenant M'Sweeney, Lieutenant and Adjutant Harrison, Lieutenant Hume, Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General Barter, Conductor Egerton, Surgeon Ward, were all wounded, besides Colonel Anstruther himself, who was shot in two or three places. It was useless to contend against such odds, and the 'cease fire' was sounded, and handkerchiefs waved to denote submission.
I must disclose to him a melancholy secret of which I heard only an hour ago. Your majesty, I implore you once more, postpone the war as long as possible; for hear my terrible secret we have been infamously defrauded by Commissary-General von Fassbender." "Your intimate friend?" interposed the emperor, with a scornful laugh.
He was going out to be Commissary-General or something of that kind in New South Wales. We had a rough, mutinous crew on board, and one night there was a fight between them and the officers and passengers. They burst into the cabin, and would have captured the ship but for the mate, who shot one man dead and cut another down.
We had done a stroke or two of business in former times, and so I was able to gain his ear, and unfold a big scheme to him." "And what was that?" "Hah! a great scheme," reiterated Clowes, smacking his lips, after a long swallow of spirits. "Says I, make me commissary-general, and I'll make our fortunes. We'll impress food and forage, and the government shall pay us for every pound of "
I wish to bear testimony to the energy and capacity of Colonel Weston, the Commissary-General with the expedition. If it had not been for his active aid, we should have fared worse than we did. All that he could do for us, he most cheerfully did. As regards the clothing, I have to say: As to the first issue, the blue shirts were excellent of their kind, but altogether too hot for Cuba.
The chief commissary, now the Commissary-General of the Army, begged off, however, saying that there was nothing in engineering that he was good for unless he would do for a sap-roller. As soldiers require rations while working in the ditches as well as when marching and fighting, and as we would be sure to lose him if he was used as a sap-roller, I let him off.
Cavalier drew a pistol from his holsters, and striking those near him with the butt end, opened a way towards his lieutenant, who drew his sword; but at this moment the commissary-general, Vincel, and Captain Cappon threw themselves between the two and asked the cause of the quarrel.
Stevenson did not consider that in those days pretty women were not plentiful in Sydney, and virtue was even scarcer than good looks, and Dorothy Gilbert, only daughter of the Deputy Acting Assistant Commissary-General of the penal settlement, possessed all the qualifications of a lovable woman, and therefore it was not wonderful that Captain Charles Foster had fallen very much in love with her.
He was looked upon as a merciless tyrant. The soldiers were very scantily fed. Bragg never was a good feeder or commissary-general. Rations with us were always scarce. No extra rations were ever allowed to the negroes who were with us as servants. No coffee or whisky or tobacco were ever allowed to be issued to the troops. If they obtained these luxuries, they were not from the government.
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