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(in margin – 3.W. 4. No.3).

Sect. 3 = enables court to sentence offenders convicted
of transportable offence, to be kept to labor in irons
Roads or Public Works of the Colony =

Sect 4 = every sentence of transportation passed in
due course of law – and every order of transport’n
made by Govr. in lieu of capital punishment, subjects the
offender to be transported to such penal settlement within
the Colony as Govr. shall appoint –

Sect. 7 – Every offender so transported to a Penal Colony
shall be under the management of a
Superintendent appointed by the Governor – and every such
Superintendent shall have power as incident to the
office of Sheriff or Gaoler – and such Commandant or[original text has been crossed out] Superintendent
shall keep every offender in his custody to labor
subject to such[original text has been crossed out] Rules and Regulations to be made for
the management and discipline of such penal settlement
by the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council –

Regulations made by the Governor in July 1829, still
in force.

(In margin – Vide Sessional Paper No. 335 - 12th March 1832
Sess. Paper – No. 814 14 August 1834)

Despatch of Sir R. Bourke upon Secondary Punish
ment – states that there are various grades
of punishment at Norfolk Island – and the Convict
sentenced in Syd. [Sydney] to confinement on Norfolk Isld. [Island]
will be considered in the same light as an offender
transported from the colony of N.S.W. and subject in
every respect to the treatment prescribed by the Regulations