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Economy 12 II Collins Free settlers hopeless Hostility by VagrantsMaroonsFugitives

P. 32. April 1797. "The court of criminal judicature was as-
"-sembled once in this month, and three persons who had
"served their period of transportation were a second time transport-
"-ed; one for 14 years, for receiving stolen goods knowing them to
"be such; and two others for seven years. The two last were vaga-
"bonds who had taken up their abode in the woods, where
"they lived at the expence of the industrious, by committing every
"kind of depredation on their property."

P. 40. June 1797. "In consequence of the proclamation which
"was issued in the last month, one of the run-away convicts
"delivered himself up to a constable, and another was taken &
"lodged in confinement: they appeared to be half starved; yet
"their sufferings were not sufficient to prevent similar desertions
"from work in others, nor a repetition of the offence in themselves;
"such was the strong aversion which these worthless characters
"had to any thing that bore the name of work ......

"Then people were brought to trial for a theft which they
"were stated to have committed, but of which there was not any
"positive proof, and they were acquitted. There was not any doubt
"of their having associated with & instructed the natives how
"to commit, with the least hazard to themselves, the various
"depredations which the settlers had sustained from them; yet
"there was no proof of this, at least no proof whereby they
"might have been capitally punished, nothing short of which
"would ever be sufficient to prevent this dangerous intercourse."

P. 59. November 1797. Toward the latter end of the month, James
"Wilson, who had for some time taken up his abode in the woods,
"& was one of those named in the proclamation of the 13th May last,
"surrendered himself to the governor's clemency. He had been herding
"with the savages in different parts of the country."

P. 59. November 1797. "The governor, well knowing, from his former
"habits, that if he punished & sent him [Wilson] to hard labour,
"he would quickly rejoin his late companions, thought it mored more
"advisable to endeavor to make him useful even in the mode of
"living which he seemed to prefer; Hhe therefore pardoned him, and
"proposed his attempting, with the assistance of his friends, to take
"some of the convicts who were at large in the woods; two of whom had,
"just before Wilson's appearance, stolen two mares, the property of private
"individuals, but which were allowed to be kept during the night in
"a stable belonging to government."

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	069	Info in main headings field	economy ii collins
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Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
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