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to which by the transportation the Convict may have happened to be

transported in the first instance, it

was not in its nature incapable of being remarked, without the

succession of the bondage. The bondage in like manner was not under

this system incapable of being

detached from the confinement and remitted by itself

the confinement continuing unremitted: but, +

+ as it was only in virtue of the bondage i:

e: the profit not made by the Court servant that the Traitor could have any

interest in keeping him in any sort of confinement

as the individual purchaser of the service. the Master of the

Convict would hav it was not natural that any such

separation should ever have taken place in practice.

Under the new system

confinement became fixed to a spot certain,

circumscribed by the by the courts of the settlement, the Governor

— now an Agent of the Crown, standing in the place of the Master

— the bondage might by a

parochial indulgence, declared or undeclared, be remitted, without

the intervention of any formal written instrument, and without

the remission of the confinement: the confinement might also be

remitted, and at any time before the expiration of the exile, though not

without a formal instrument for the purpose.

Under the old system, the distance of the

spot, to which the Convict was to be transported in the first

instance, made in an indirect way, in most instances, though not

necessarily a correspondent addition to the duration of the

exile. The right to the service of the Convict being sold for

the whole seven years, if accordingly he was kept in bondage in the last

day of that seven years

it could not even be in his power the day

after to find himself the day after on British ground so early as the next

day. He would have to wait in the first place for the sailing of a

ship bound to a port in Great Britain from the spot

on Colony in which

the