The Colonial RecordRecords of Colonial Australia

other · 1840

This notice increases the penalty for ship masters who allow passengers to embark without being listed on the official manifest, from ten pounds to one hundred pounds, to prevent both convict escapes and debtors absconding.

Confidence: High · exact page revealed on unlock

And whereas, in order to prevent the escape of Couvic's from the said Colony, it is in the said recited Act enacted, …

Read the corrected notice

The full corrected transcription, the exact page region of the original scan, a clean downloadable page and citation tools.

Recorded in this notice

New South Wales Government Gazette, No. 47, 5 August 1840.