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Enclosure in No. 1.

Convict Department, Comptroller General's Office,

July 2, 1849.

It is hereby notified that, in accordance with instructions from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, all ticket-of-leave holders, arriving in Van Diemen's Land after the 1st of January last, will be required to repay the sum of 157., as the cost of their convey- ance to the colony, before they will be allowed to receive the further indulgence of a con- ditional pardon; and to enable them to make this payment in a regular and gradual manner, such portions of their earnings as they may from time to time be able to set aside in aid thereof will be received, in sums of not less than 58., at any of the police offices, and carried to their credit in the savings-bank.

2. In pursuance of this regulation, a ticket-of-leave holder, if under a sentence of 7 years, will be required to have paid 71. 108.; if under a sentence of 15 years, 117. 58.; and if under a sentence of life, the whole amount of 157, before he can be recommended for a conditional pardon.

3. It is further notified, that the wives and families of ticket-of-leave holders, of the class above referred to, will be sent out to them, when half the cost of doing so has been paid by themselves, their friends, or their parishes in the United Kingdom

(Signed) J. S. HAMPTON, Comptroller-General.

N.B.-The remaining dispatches on Convict Discipline, proposed to be answered by the drafts now circulated, are in the Parliamentary Proof, herewith, at pages 2, 3, 48, and 68.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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