✨ Road Construction Expenditure
ABSTRACT OF LABOR EMPLOYED, WORK DONE, AND EXPENSE INCURRED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NORTH ROAD, UNDER CAPTAIN RUSSELL, 85th REGIMENT SUPERINTENDENT OF MILITARY ROADS, FROM 1st APRIL TO 30th JUNE, 1849.
A. HAMILTON RUSSELL, SUPERINTENDENT OF MILITARY ROADS.
Military Road.
Surveying.
Captain Russell ... 3 days @ 8s. 4d.
North Road.
28 working overseers at 3s. 6d. Total 181 11s. excluding Engineer Road at 3s.
154 double-bullock drivers at 3s.
851 having general charge, at 2s. 6d.
1818 at 1s. 6d.
3547 at 1s.
33 at 2s.
Total 237
Government Horse and Cart.
1 Horse.
51 Rails.
11 to 13 Feet.
10 to 30 Chains.
Description of Work.
Embanking, Levelling, Sawing, Draining, Clearing of slips, and keeping-metalling, bridges, and culverts of Torrea Road in repair.
Road made, with the exception of metal, 91 chains 48 links; Road raised with timber 4 chains; metalled (road previously made) 56 chains 66 links, 35 feet wide; centre of road, 46, 151 chains from A to 5 feet wide; causeway raised with coping stone and metalled; Rubble 18 feet wide, completed; 5 crypt arches, 30 chains of sides of causeway completed; Borer’s Gully and upper Ferry.
£193 : 3 : 3 including pay and forage allowances of Superintendent of Military Roads and Clerk.
£27 : 17 : 0.
Military.
£177 : 7 : 9. Civilian, £21 : 15 : 5; Native, £348 : 13 : 9.
Total, £583 : 17 : 0.
£811 : 16 : 8.
Superintendent.
- Any Miles and Kay, 69 of Road Party.
Superintendents.
- Foremen.
- Overseers.
- Mechanics.
- Labourers.
Employed at
- Overseers.
- Labourers.
- Mechanics.
Number of Carts employed.
Length of Road made.
Width of the Road.
Distance the carts have to go for stone or timber.
General Observations.
Character, size and extent of any particular portions of the work which have been completed during the Quarter.
Pay of Superintendent, Foremen, and Overseers.
Pay of Mechanics.
Pay of Labourers.
Payment for Cartage.
Payment for Contingencies and Contracts.
Total Payments.
Names and Stations.
- The following are stationed at various points on the Military Road:
- Any Miles and Kay of Road Party.
Spearing Tr.
- Passon.
Cavendish R.
Smith’s R. P.
Cape Road.
North Road.
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New Munster Gazette 1849, No 21
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🏗️ Abstract of Labor and Expenditure for North Road Construction
🏗️ Infrastructure & Public WorksRoad Construction, Labor, Expenditure, North Road, Military Roads
- A. Hamilton Russell (Superintendent of Military Roads), Superintendent overseeing road construction
- Any Miles, Stations on Military Road
- Kay, Stations on Military Road
- A. Hamilton Russell, Superintendent of Military Roads