017 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(017.jpg) recto 2 by custom and could sue and be sued which gave them a standing in society, and many of the more industrious acquired a considerable portion of property - The present measure has proved to be as impolitic as in equity it is unjust - Ticket of Leave holders for a long series of years have enjoyed the right of acquiring property - And consequently many of them exerted their industry to the utmost to gain an honest competency by depriving them of this customary right they are at once driven to their former shifts which were disused when success depended on their character, but not forgotten now that character can be of no use to them- In some parts of the country Ticket of Leave holders form nearly a third of the population - They have frequent dealings amongst themselves and are the best labourers the settler can engage - [Treading] that they cannot enforce a just claim either against each other or the emancipists or emigrants they become idle and consequently dissolute and rogurish - And since the work of their hands may not be compensated, they engage their heads in their labour and live by their wits - Before the late Act of Parliament they were continually under the surveillance of the Police, and were subject to arbitrary punishment by the magistracy, their circumstances were sufficiently galling to men, who were taught to believe that they had acquired by their good conduct the first glimpse of liberty SubjectNew South Wales historyNSWHunter ValleySettlerAustralian historyMaitlandAustraliaDatenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2666325386/

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