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III. Escapes

No 13. (p.290) 4th June 1793. Six Expirees (one of them a
female) left the Colony at this time by permission in one
single vessel: (the King) although there were no fewer than
thirteen other passengers, three of them of the class of gentlemen.
Another proof how small the number of expirees, to whom the
permission was actually given, in comparison of the number
to whom it might have been extended.

No 14. (p.316) 3rd Octr 1793. A third manifestation of
what passes for or supersedes good faith in a Governor of
New South Wales. On this day sailed the Boddingtons and
the Sugar Cane for Bengal. "From the Sugar Cane were
"brought up the day she sailed.... two men whose terms as
"convicts were expired. They had got on board without persmission":
for this "the Lieutenant Governor directed them to be punished
"with fifty lashes each, and sent up to Toongabbe."

No 15. (p.474) 4th Octr 1796. No Expiree was now allowed
"to remove himself, without permission, from the public work."
"But notwithstanding this had been declared in public orders,
"many withdrew themselves.... on the day of their servitude ceasing."
For this they were "punished and ordered again to labour."
They seized (could they be blamed?) "the first opportunity of
"running away." "We" (says Captain Collins) "were well convinced
"that by these people and who harboured them" (viz: the
Expiree settlers in general) "every theft was committed." What a
dilemma for the Governor! Now to act illegally was acting
mischievously. Such is the situation in which the Governors
of this improved and ever improving Colony were placed,
and during the existence of it doomed for ever to continue, by
the wisdom and probity of Mr Pitt!
Your Lordship

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	295	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d19 f75 / d20 f76
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37828
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