10 May 1805[?]

Evidence Introd.

Introd

Ch.5. Collateral Incidental

'. Delay

I. Exertions of illegal power, for the purpose of forcibly detaining Convicts within the Colony, or reconveying them into it, after the expiration of their terms.

II. Exertions of illegal power, placing Convicts in a state of bondage within the Colony after the expiration of their terms.

1. Liberty of departure, and freedom from bondage, both refused to a number of Convicts /expires/ at the same time, on the ground that no evidence of the terms they had had originally to serve /original commencement and length of their terms/ was to be found.

2. Punishment inflicted on an expired Expence for attempting to quit[?] the Colony

3. Married men though [...?] forbidden to leave the Colony otherwise than in case[?] of their finding security for the maintenance of their wives and families.

4. Expiries[?] still kept in bondage. Faculty of choosing the place of labour - an indulgence.

5. Measures taken for causing[?] expiries[?] who had repaired to [...?] to /[...?] found means to get to/ be forcibly sent back to New South Wales

6. General liberty of departure announced at at time when [...?] for preventing it were [...?] from the things [...?] as [...?]

7. Intention of a general detention of expiries[?] in general notwithstanding a declaration made at the very time announcing a liberty of departure to expiries[?] in general.

Under the heads of vexation and expence, mention has been made of the ulterior evils of which those evils, of themselves sufficiently great, are so apt to be productive. Delay is prolific of vexation. delay is prolific of expence. By[?] a double title, though in a [...?] degree delay is therefore prolific of those same evils.