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2 Feb 1803
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to which by the transportation the Convict may have happened
to be transported in the first instance, it is was not in its nature
incapable of being remarked, without the succession of
the bondage. The bondage in like manner was
not under this system incapable of being rais detached
from the bondag confinement and remitted by itself
the confinement continuing unremitted: but, + + as it was only in virtue of the bondage i: e: the profit not made by the Court servant that the Traitor could have any interest in keeping him in any sort of confinement as the individual
purchaser of the service. the Master of the Convict
would hav it was not natural that any such separation
should ever have taken place in practice.

Under the new system the Governor of the Colony
confinement became fixed location to a spot certain, circumscribed by the by the
courts of the settlement, the Governor — now
an Agent of the Crown, standing in the place of the Master —
the bondage might in consequence by a parochial
indulgence, declared or undeclared, be remitted, without
any instrument in the intervention of any formal written instrument, and without the
remission of the confinement: the confinement might also
be remitted, and at any time before the expiration of
the exile, though not without a formal instrument for
the purpose.

Under the old system, the distance of the
spot, to which the Convict was to be transported in the first instance,
made in an indirect way, in most instances, though not necessarily a correspondent addition
to the duration of the exile. The right to the service of
the Convict being sold for the whole seven years, if accordingly
he was kept in bondage in the last day of that seven
years to it was could not even be in his power the day after to find himself the
day after on British ground so early as the next day.
He would have to wait in the first place for the sailing
of a ship bound to a port in Great Britain from the spot on Colony in which
the

Identifier: | JB/116/283/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1803-02-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	3
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	283	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	note continued
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37816
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