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General Orders.
General Orders.
SEVEN Settlers having been Convicted by
the Magiftrates, of employing Thomas
Dobfon, a Convict at Government Labour, contrary to the General Orders of the 1ft and
2d of October, 1800, and 12th of January.
1802, are fentenced to pay the Fine of Five Pounds each, which the GOVERNOR has re- mitted in confequence of the impofitions practifed by the Prifoner, on condition of each of the Seven Settlers paying Half-a
Crown for each Day he worked on their re
fpective Farms. The Prifoner Dobfon is to receive 100 Lafhes, and to labour in the Battery-gang at George's Head.
It is with great reluctance that Fines of fuch a nature are levied at all, but more par- ticulaly on the Settlers ; yet when they fo
directly difregard an Order given and re-
peated for their general and individual fe- curity, it is proper that thofe who act fo inimically to the general welfare of fociety fhould fuffer for the fecurity of the reft.
As ever, Perfon under the fentence of the Law, whether at Government Labour, af- figned to individuals, or allowed to get their own livelihood, as well as all thofe who have expiated the Sentence of the Law, or be- come Emancipated, are provided with Paffes from the Superintendants, Magiftrates or their Mafter; or hold Certificates from the Secretary's Office, of the Permiffion or Free-- dom they enjoy ; - - - Every perfon whatever is ftrictly forbid employing or harbouring any perfon without feeing the Permiffion he is poffeffed of, on pain of forfeiting Five Pounds for each Offence, and Two shillings and Sixpence for each Day they were harboured or employed, to the Orphan Fund, on Con- viction before two Magiftrates, which Fine will in no inftance be difpenfed with in fu- ture ; for to this neglect on the part of the Settlers, may be attributed the late daring and inhuman Burglary and Robbery at the Field of Mars.
The General Orders of November 14th.
1800, not being fo generally attended to as the intereft of every Individual requires, that Order is repeated as follows, viz. - - -
" To prevent litigious Difputes, and con-
fequent vexatious Complaints, it is hereby Ordered, That no claim of property be ad- mitted by the Civil Court of jurifdiction, unless the parties enter into Written Agree-
ments between each other, or enter them in Books which will be kept for that purpofe by the following Perfons, viz." - -
"Each agreement being entered in the moft concife and clear manner, and witneffed by one Perfon not a Convict.
Notwithftanding this order, frequent com- plaints (arifing from a non-compliance with it) are made to the Governor, Magiftrates, and Civil Court, by thofe who from idlenefs, ignorance, or defign, neglect the advantage of fo falutary a Regulation, which fhelters the ignorant and unlearned from the defigns of the artful and litgious.
The Governor can only require the ob-
fervance of the Civil Court and Magriftrates to the above Order, and advife every one in their pecuniary tranfactions to affure themfelves of having their complaints more fpeedily redreffed by means of fuch conclu- five teftimony.
The Perfons appointed to keep their
Books are Michael Robinfon at Sydney,
Mathew Sutton at Parramatta, and Andrew Thomfon at Hawkefbury.
By Command of His
EXCELLENCY W.N. CHAPMAN, Sec. Government Houfe, Sydney July 5 1803.