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Convict Tickets of Leave in NSW 1788 to 1850

CONTENTS

Introduction together with a statement on the scope of the research paper, and indication of the methodology used.

Ticket of Leave Regulations: Part 1 from earliest times until Governor Macquarie.

Ticket of Leave Regulations: Part 2, during Governor Macquarie's time.

Ticket of Leave Regulations: Part 3, during the 1820s under Governors Brisbane and Darling

Ticket of Leave Regulations: Part 4 from Governor Bourke until 1850

The legal position of ticket of leave holders: common law and practice

The legal position of ticket of leave holders: Statute law from 1823 and practice

A decline in liberty: the trend over the period 1788 to 1850

Appendix 1: Statistical sampling of convict records

PLEASE NOTE: Most of the remaining appendices have not been marked up.

Appendix 2: Results of sample of indents 1796-1800

Appendix 3: Some results of sample of indents 1801-1823

Appendix 4: Occupations of ticket of leave holders in 1806

Appendix 5: Results of sample of butts of Tickets of Exemption From Government Labour 1827-1832

Appendix 6: Further results of analysis of sample of indents 1801-1823

Appendix 8: Results of sample of 1828 Census

Appendix 9: Estimates of ticket numbers

Appendix 10: Ticket of leave numbering system 1810-1827

SOME ABBREVIATIONS

AANSW.............Archives Authority of New South Wales

BPP...................British Parliamentary Papers (Irish University Press Series)

HRA...................Historical Records of Australia

HRNSW.............Historical Records of New South Wales

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