CREWS OF VESSELS AT NEWCASTLE FORBIDDEN TO TRADE STORES

The Sydney Gazette 29 March 1807

ALL Masters of Colonial Craft, or any persons that belong thereto, or who take a passage therein, are hereby forbid purchasing by any means whatever from the Prisoners at the Out settlements any food, or articles that have been issued from the Government Store, whether Tools or Clothing. And in case any person is detected in violating this Order, the offender or offenders shall, on conviction before a Bench of Magistrates, work in the gaol gang at hard labour for the space of six months; while the person who will be the means of bringing the offenders to justice, shall receive the whole of the property so illegally bartered away.

Vessels trading to Newcastle failing under this Order shall be subject to be sent away without their lading, and disqualified from returning to the said settlement.

Any person having King’s stores in their possession which they cannot legally account for, will be subject to the severities of the Laws of Great Britain therein provided