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18 Jany 1803 9
Expirees in bondage

II. Expirees, when detained during detention, kept in a state of bondage

No 17 No 2 I. 74. July 1789 Freedom from bondage, refused along with
liberty of departure, on the same ground, viz. the want of evidence
of the commencement of the term of servitude. See above No 1 and 2.

No 18 No 4 I. 169. July 1791. Sett Expirees who wished
not to become Settlers, ordered to in New South Wales, ordered to
work there for 12
or 18 months
See No 4.</p>

No 19 No 6

I. 208. April 1792. Expirees become numerous,
To of them the choice of the place where they were to labour (where these

freemen were to be forced to labour) is stated "an indulgence"

No 20 Collins I. p. 474 to October 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."

No 21 Collins II. p. 22. February 1797. "Several convicts who had
"served their respective terms of transportation, having applied to
"be discharged from the victualling books of the Colony, and allowed
"to provide for themselves, it was determined that, once during a
"given time, certificates of their having so served that several
"sentences should be granted to them, together with the permission
"they sollicited." Once during a given time: once a
year, once a quarter, or once a month &c if I understand
the that presents itself to me was is what was meant.
The This being the case, the time when each man was restored to liberty, was the
time — not when his right to it commenced — not when law and
justice required that he should be restored, to it but a time
which recommended itself to the imagination by some such
idea as that of order and regularity: at any rate, by some
idea or other which in the order of importance occupied
in certain conceptions a higher rank than that of law
and justice. What should we think is that country would be the feelings of the good people of England if a Secretary
of State of Sheriff, prisoners were in future to be discharged from prisons
here, not as at present, when their respective times are up, but in
gangs together on every quarter day? in the first of every month? and so forth? so that for example a man for example whose sentence was for a month should for the sake of good order be kept in just three months longer or thereabouts
all but a day or two of his month happened to end a day or two after the quarter day?

[+] by the influence of
the love of order in the
mind of

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Date_1	1803-01-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
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