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7 1804
Evidence Introd.
I. Exertions of illegal power, for the purpose of forcibly
detaining Convicts within the Colony, or reconveying them into it, after the expiration of their
times.
II. Exertions of illegal power, placing the Convicts in
a state of bondage af within the Colony after the expiration
of their times.
1. Liberty of departure, and freedom from bondage, both referred to the number
of Convicts Expirees at the same time, on the ground that no evidence
of the times they had had originally original commencement and length of their terms to serve was to be found.
2. Punishment inflicted on an Expiree Expirees for attempting to
quit the Colony.
3. Married men though Expirees forbidden to leave the Colony
unless otherwise than in case of their finding security for the maintenance
of their wives and families.
4. Choice of the place at which Expirees still kept in bondage. Faculty of choosing the place of
labour an indulgence.
5. Measures taken for obtaining the remittance of causing Expirees who
had repaired to Hindostan gone from means to get to to be forcibly sent back to New South Wales.
7. Intention of a general intertwined detention if expirees in general notwithstanding
a declaration made at the very time announcing a liberty of departure
to expirees in general.
6. General liberty of departure announced at a time when
instructions for preventing it were expected from the Kings
Servants as
Under the heads of vexation and expence, mention has just been
made of the ulterior evils of which those evils, of themselves sufficiently
great, are so apt to be productive. Delay is pregnant with prolific of vexation,
delay is pregnant with prolific of expence. In both ways therefore By a
double title, though in a degree delay is therefore prolific of these same evils.
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