018 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(018.jpg) Verso and these measures were surely sufficient to keep their evil propensities in check. But now the only privilege they acquire by a ticket of leave is that of working for themselves, without the power of recovering their wages or even of demanding the common receparies of life - A prisoner is entitled and can enforce the delivery of his rations and clothing - but a ticket of leave man can do neither - nor can he raise a crop for his own subsistence for the law has refused to protect him in the possession of it - Were the Law as it stands cruelly enforced - the whole of this most meritorious class of the prison population would petition to be made prisoners of the crown again Another most impolitic regulation which has been established lately has occasioned universal dissatisfaction both amongst the settlers and their servants - upon recipt of an assigned servant the settler has now to pay 1 pound nominally for his slops to the government - but the prisoners say it is the price paid for them - this of course occasions great dissatisfaction altho it puts it in the power of the servant to punish his master by compelling him to return him to the government and pay 1 pound for another man - There can be no motive for this direct tax on the settler when the revenues exceeds the expenditure. The SubjectNew South Wales historyNSWHunter ValleySettlerAustralian historyMaitlandAustraliaDatenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2665502097/

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