. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. ogue,and, at the same time, a promise of anincrease of salary, but the prospectswere not alluring enough. After twoyears service John Fairfax resigned,and was succeeded in March, 1S41, byP. J. Elliott. In May, 1840, the allotments aboveRushcutters Bay were sold for ;6\5»3^4and, in the same month, the premises inBridge-street, occupied bv the Libraryand Museum, were ordered to be vacatedto accommodate the Survevor-General J. H. , 1837 and 1865. and his Staff; rooms being proxided forthe Library at a building in Macquar
. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. ogue,and, at the same time, a promise of anincrease of salary, but the prospectswere not alluring enough. After twoyears service John Fairfax resigned,and was succeeded in March, 1S41, byP. J. Elliott. In May, 1840, the allotments aboveRushcutters Bay were sold for ;6\5»3^4and, in the same month, the premises inBridge-street, occupied bv the Libraryand Museum, were ordered to be vacatedto accommodate the Survevor-General J. H. , 1837 and 1865. and his Staff; rooms being proxided forthe Library at a building in Macquarie-street, opposite the site on which theSydney Mint now stands. The mainbuilding had, at various times, been usedfor the accommodation of one, or another,of the Government Officials and theirStaffs—notably the Surveyor-Generaland the Collector of Internal was finally granted to the ChurchAuthorities for a Parsonage : the Li-brary appears to have been located inthe small annexe on the right-handside of the building shown on page 16, REV. DR. , 1839-40. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 21 vSome of the entries in the Committees Minute Book are amusing whenread in the light of present-day knowledge ; :, we tind in October, 1841,one member of the Committee moving that the work entitled JackSheppard be ejected, and at the same meeting it was resolved thatthree copies of a proposed work entitled Stolen Moments, to be publishedin the Colony, wrote (sic) by Henrv Parkes, be subscribed for. The Governor having offered two sites to the Committee, oneopposite the residence of Mr. Ed\e Manning, the other opposite the
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