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convict admin · 1836

Additional Assignment Regulations (Colonial Secretary Alexander McLeay, Sydney, 9 March 1836): Petty Sessions and single magistrates across NSW districts are empowered to re-assign convict labourers within their own district without referring to the Principal Superintendent of Convicts or Board of Assignment, allotting them to the first applicant on the supply list; newly-arrived emigrant householders get priority for one domestic servant. Monthly returns of convict name, ship, old and new master required.

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IT having been represented to the Governor, that it would be of general convenience to authorise the Petty Sessions, …

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New South Wales Government Gazette, No. 213, 16 March 1836.