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April 1797 280 p.283. But few convicts were allowed to
quite the Colony in their ships; four men & one woman
only, whose terms of transportation had expired, being
received on board

June 1793, p.290 On board the Kitty were embarked .... five men
and one woman, who, their terms of transportation
being expired, who, permitted to return to their friends

9 (a)
p.74
1. Expirees kept
in bondage — papers

the expiration being
left behind

Note (a)
(a) July 1789. p. 74. Notwithstanding that little more than
"two years had elapsed since our departure from England, "several Convicts about this time signified that the
respective terms for which they had been transported
had expired, and claimed to be rested to the
privileges of free men. Unfortunately, by some unaccountable
over sight, the papers necessary to ascertain their
particulars had been left by the masters of the transports
with their owners in England, instead of being brought
out and deposited in the Colony; and as, thus ,
it was equally impossible to admit or to deny the
truth of their assertions, they were told to wait until
accounts would be received from England; and in the
mean time, by continuing to labour for the public, they
would be entitled to shew the public provisions in the
store. This was by no means satisfactory satisfactory
as is appeared that they are assurance from
the Governor of receiving some gratuity for employing
their future time and labour for the benefit of the
settlement. One of these people having, in the presence
of his excellency, expressed himself disrespectfully of the
lieutenant-governor, he was brought before a criminal
court and tried for the same, of which offence being
found guilty, he was sentenced to receive six hundred
lashes & to wear irons for the space of six months.

"It must (continues this humane magistrate and candid it must be acknowledge be acknowledge, that these people
"were most peculiarly and unpleasantly situated Conscious
"in their own minds that the sentence of the
"law had been fulfilled upon them, it must have
"been truly distressing to their feelings to find that they
"could not be considered in any other light, or received
"with any other situation, than those in which alone "they had been hitherto known in the settlement."

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A "criminal court"?
What criminal court? the Court legalized by
the Act? the cognizance
of that Court, is
by the Act itself, to such
"outrages and
as would be misdemeanours
"felonies treasons or
"thereof, if committed
"this real" [27.G.2.c.2]
Which of all these causes
would a man committ
in this realm by
very disrespectfully of a
Lieutenant Governor"
of New South Wales?

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	9a
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	321	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b9
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
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