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shall be in the long boat with the Convicts to regulate them when getting the morning board. I recollect that the boat was upset. I was informed in reply to my question that fifty-five Convicts were about going ashore. I then directed that more Convicts should go into the boat, and I believe the number increased to eighty. This was intended to avoid bringing on board eighty wrists at a time, because the Convicts were in a hurry to go from the ship, they only exhibited a desire to get speedily from the vessel.

It was my intention that there should be a longer time to ventilate the ship, and also to get the Convicts to their labor on shore.

Henry Manning, late Warden of the Convict Hulk, had been eleven months in Government employ at the Jail and had been about three weeks Warden at the Hulk there. There was no order as to what number of Convicts should be conveyed to the shore; sometimes we

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258 shall be in the long boat with the Convicts to regulate them when getting the morning board. I recollect that the boat was upset. I was informed in reply to my question that fifty-five Convicts were about going ashore. I then directed that more Convicts should go into the boat, and I believe the number increased to eighty. This was intended to avoid bringing on board eighty wrists at a time, because the Convicts were in a hurry to go from the ship, they only exhibited a desire to get speedily from the vessel. It was my intention that there should be a longer time to ventilate the ship, and also to get the Convicts to their labor on shore. Henry Manning, late Warden of the Convict Hulk, had been eleven months in Government employ at the Jail and had been about three weeks Warden at the Hulk there. There was no order as to what number of Convicts should be conveyed to the shore; sometimes we
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shall be in the long bout with the Convicts to regulate them

when getting

the

az

morning

board. Irecollect.

that the bout

d in

upset I was informed

reply

to my question that fifty five

Convicts

were

inn

orne

bout going ashore.

I then directed that

comiots should.

go

"ve

into the boat

and I believe the number.

increased to eighty, this

intended to anthro

was

was not

inge eighty

wrists bering brought on bourd

four

the

a nevo

shove, because the convicts

in a hurry

hurry to go firm

the ship, they only exhibit on games

to retur

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board-when

ordered more

convicts to be placed

in the bout it was

my

get them speedily from

so

desire to

the vessel

that there should be a longer

time to ventilate the ship, and

also to get the Convicts to their labor

J

ساسية على

shore:

Henry Manning,

a

linve

severn deposth.

Warden of the Convict bulk_

been eleven month's in Government

employ at the Juil and have

been about three weeks Warden at

the Hulk there.

was no order as

to what muber of Convists

should be

conveyest

avergest to

and

fiven the Youth : sometimes we

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