Contingencies. 
Medical Stores and Drugs :  20/0/0. 
Petty Contingencies :  50/0/0. 
Collection and Forage for Horses prior to starting :  100/0/0. 
Freights and Passages from Sydney to Moreton Bay :  50/0/0. 
Conveyance of Stores from Brisbane to Surat :  200/0/0. 
Contingent Expenses in the Collection of the Party at Surat :  100/0/0. 
Total contingencies :  520/0/0.

Salaries.  Commander, 9 months, 600 pounds per annum :  450/0/0.  Assistant, 7 months, 300 pounds per annum :  175/0/0.  Overseer, 6 months, at 150 pounds per annum :  75/0/0. 4 Stockmen, 6 months, at 2 pounds per week :  208/0/0. 1 Aboriginal Stockman, 6 months :  20/0/0.  Leader of the Auxiliary Party, 3 months :  75/0/0. 4 Stockmen, 3 months :  104/0/0. 1 Aboriginal Stockman, 3 months :  10/0/0.  Total salaries :  1117/0/0.

Recapitulation. 
Equipment :  2521/7/8. 
Contingent expenses :  520/0/0. 
Salaries :  1117/0/0. 
Total :  4158/7/8.

A.C.  Gregory.

Sydney, 16th September, 1857.

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1858.  Legislative assembly, new south Wales.

Expedition in search of Dr. Leichhardt.

Report of proceedings.

Ordered by the legislative assembly to be printed, 1 September, 1858.

Report of the proceedings of the expedition in search of Dr. Leichhardt
and party.

8Th December, 1857, to 11th January, 1858.

Having received instructions from the Honourable the Secretary for Lands and Public Works to organise an expedition for the purpose of searching for traces of Dr. Leichhardt and party, who left New South Wales in 1848 with the intention of proceeding overland to Western Australia, I proceeded to Moreton Bay with such portions of the equipment as had been prepared in Sydney.  On reaching Ipswich forty horses were purchased, and having despatched the stores to Mr. Royd’s station, on the Dawson River, by drays, the party were collected at that place; but, owing to unforeseen delays in the transport of the stores, the equipment and organisation of the expedition was not complete till the latter part of March.

The following list of the party, horses, stores, etc., will show the principal arrangements.