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From: "Lesley Uebel" <>
Subject: Female convicts
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 11:43:47 +1000
In-Reply-To: <OGEELKEHANIHLMOJNLCJKEPHIMAA.ckennedy@bigpond.net.au>


Another Act that was passed a little earlier than the City of Sydney Act.

3 Vict. No. 22 in 1840.

An Act to abolish the transportation of female convicts, and to provide for the
more effectual punishment of female offenders within the colony of New South
Wales.

The abandonment of Moreton Bay as a Penal Station, having deprived us of the
usual place of transportation for females convicted of second offences in the
colony, it became necessary to abolish by Law the punishment of transportation,
and provide some other mode of punishment within the colony. The present Act was
therefore passed, the completion of a range of 72 cells at the Female Factory at
Parramatta having afforded the means of rendering imprisonment in that
establishment a far more efficacious punishment than it had formerly been. At
the same time, some trifling amendments were introduced in respect of the powers
of Justices to sentence women to solitary confinement in certain cases, wherein
their powers had before extended only to simple imprisonment.

HRA 1840

regards

Lesley Uebel
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lesley Uebel [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 8:56 AM
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Subject: RE: [PJ] Sydney as city in 1842



Ion 17 November 1842 Sir George Gipps in a despatch to Lord Stanley


The Act
6th Vict. No. 3 - " AN Act to declare the Town of Sydney to be a city, and to
incorporate the inhabitants thereof".
This Act is very closely modelled on the English Corporation Act 5th and 6th Wm.
IV, C. 76.

The Town, which contains upwards of 30,000 inhabitants , is divided into six
wards, and to each Ward are allowed four councillors, so that the number of
elected Councillors is 24; and either, out of these 24, or out of persons
qualified to be Councillors, the Alderman (six in number) are as in England to
be elected.


I am happy to be able to inform Your Lordship that, though some warm discussions
took place in the Council on the subject of this Act, and great interest was
excited by it out of doors, the disputes relating to the rights of Emancipists,
which caused the failure of the Bill in 1840, were not renewed. The Act is
silent altogether on the subject of these rights; and the consequence is that,
under the general Law of the Empire, persons, who have undergone their sentences
(commonly called Expirees) and persons who have received Free Pardons, will, if
otherwise qualified, be entitled to vote, or to be elected, but not persons
serving under an actual sentence of transportation.

Source: HRA XXII

Regards

Lesley Uebel
mailto:

CLAIM A CONVICT
http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/index.html
******************************************
My CD-ROMs
The Port Jackson Convicts Anthology 1788 - 1849
http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/page121.html

Early Australian Historical Records 1788 - 1843
http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/page129.html
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-----Original Message-----
From: Darlene Thornton [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 3:17 PM
To:
Subject: [PJ] Sydney as city in 1842


Hello, been catching up with all the emails in past week, some with
chuckles, etc.

I checked out the Thin Blue Line - Policing history and found an entry that
stated that in "1842, Sydney is proclaimed a city."

I didnt know this. Would anyone have details on how this was achieved and
how it affected the convicts, etc? As far as I know the transportation of
convicts stopped at 1840, but I am wondering how the status of all other
convicts are affected by this, etc?

And those who have connections or 'lots' of details on Henry Kable please
email me private.

Cheers with thanks,
Darlene Thornton
Sydney NSW


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