A Documentary History of Australia: Colonial Australia, 1788-1840Nelson, 1980 - Australia |
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Page 221
... offences ; for more gross offences , such as robbery , they are committed to take their trial . How are they provided with food ? - They receive their grain once a week , and their fresh provisions twice . Do they receive it in rations ...
... offences ; for more gross offences , such as robbery , they are committed to take their trial . How are they provided with food ? - They receive their grain once a week , and their fresh provisions twice . Do they receive it in rations ...
Page 445
... offences that were peculiar to the condition of the convict , such as disobedience , neglect of work , abusive or saucy language , and other types of misconduct that in the case of other persons would not have been regarded as offences ...
... offences that were peculiar to the condition of the convict , such as disobedience , neglect of work , abusive or saucy language , and other types of misconduct that in the case of other persons would not have been regarded as offences ...
Page 492
... offences , such as forgery , cattle - stealing , stealing in a dwelling house above the value of £ 5 , ( those fruitful sources of capital convictions in former times ) ever since the 1st of August , 1833 , so that those which had taken ...
... offences , such as forgery , cattle - stealing , stealing in a dwelling house above the value of £ 5 , ( those fruitful sources of capital convictions in former times ) ever since the 1st of August , 1833 , so that those which had taken ...
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Aborigines acres agricultural allowed amongst appearance arrived banks Bathurst boat Botany Bay Britain Cape Captain cattle Church coast colonists colony command Committee conduct consequence Court Cove crimes cultivation Diemen's Land district duty emancipists employed England established Excellency farming female convicts Governor King Governor Macquarie Harbour Hawkesbury Historical Records Hobart Town hope Hunter important inhabitants John Macarthur June Jury labour London Lord Macarthur Macquarie's magistrates Majesty's March Marsden miles military Mitchell Library months Mountains natives Norfolk Island November observed occasion officers Parramatta party persons population Port Dalrymple Port Jackson pounds present prisoners provisions punishment received Records of Australia reported respect River sailed sent sentenced servants settlement sheep ships shore situation Society South Wales Corps spirits supply Sydney Gazette trade transportation Van Diemen's Land vessel voyage W. C. Wentworth wheat whole women wool