NSW rules for tickets of leave in 1822

1822 Government and General Orders re Tickets of Leave NSW

GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL ORDERS

CIVIL DEPARTMENT
         Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 7th November, 1822.
THE Government Order of the 9th January, 1813, except so far as it rescinded all former Orders and Public Notices on the subject of Applications, "for Free Pardons, Emancipations, Conditional Pardons, and Tickets of Leave, and also for the obtaining of Lands and Cattle" is itself repealed.
   To Convicts under Sentence of the Law,
For Seven Years who during Four have served One Master faithfully, [and]
For Fourteen Years who during Six have served Two Masters faithfully, [and]
For Life who during Eight have served Three Masters faithfully, [and]
Tickets of Leave will be issued every Friday, on producing at this Office a Certificate to the following effect:-
"We hereby Certify that A.B., who came by the ship C., which arrived in the year D., has not been Convicted of any Crime or Misdemeanor in this Colony, but is to our own certain belief an honest, sober, and industrious character, having served faithfully E.F., residing in the District of G. from ...... to ...... H.I. in the District of K. from ...... to ......, and L.M. in the District of N. from ...... to ......"
O.P., Resident Magistrate.
Q.R., Clergyman of the District.
E.F., First Master.
H.I., Second Master.
Third Master.
   By Command of His Excellency,
                  F. GOULBURN, Colonial Secretary.

[Attachment to Despatch from Sir Thomas Brisbane to Earl Bathurst, 28 April 1823, in Historical Records of Australia, Series I, Vol.11, p.74 at pp.81-2.]

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