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Convicts sent to Western Australia were sentenced to terms of 6, 7, 10, 14 and 15 years and some reports suggest that their literacy rate was around 75 % as opposed to 50 % for those sent to NSW and Tasmania.
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Convicts and sent
* In the novel The Convicts by Iain Lawrence, young Tom Tin is sent to Van Diemen's Land on charges of murder
Convicts housed in hulks were used to build the Royal Naval Dockyard there, and during the Second Boer War, Boer prisoners-of-war were sent to the archipelago and imprisoned on one of the smaller islands.
Convicts and Western
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* Convicts transported to Western Australia include:
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* Comptroller General of Convicts ( Western Australia )
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Convicts in Western Australia were never assigned, with the debatable exception of the Parkhurst apprentices.
The Comptroller General of Convicts was the head of the convict establishment in Western Australia.
Western Australia's first Comptroller General of Convicts, Edmund Henderson, arrived in the colony with the first convicts on board the Scindian in June 1850.
Hampton had previously been Comptroller General of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land, and assumed far more direct control of Western Australia's convict establishment than had his predecessors.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson KCB ( 19 April 1821 – 8 December 1896 ) was an officer in the British Army who was Comptroller-General of Convicts in Western Australia from 1850 to 1863, Home Office Surveyor-General of Prisons from 1863 to 1869, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1869 to 1886.
When Western Australia became a penal colony in 1850, Henderson was appointed the colony's first Comptroller-General of Convicts.
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Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7, entitled Ordinance for the Suppression of Violent Crimes Committed by Convicts Illegally at Large, was an ordinance that permitted capital punishment for escaped convicts who committed violent crimes while on the run in Western Australia.
Convicts and Australia
* Marjorie Tipping, Convicts Unbound: The story of the Calcutta convicts and their settlement in Australia, Melbourne, Viking O ’ Neil, 1988.
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Category: Convicts transported to Australia
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Convicts were transported to Australia in 1787, arriving in Botany Bay, then Sydney Cove, in January 1788.
* Convicts in Australia
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* Convicts in Australia
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Convicts and were
Convicts were still a common sight for years later.
Convicts were dissuaded from escaping by the poisonous snakes in the interior of the island and the sharks patrolling the 30 km to the mainland.
Convicts were treated harshly, and worked hard.
Convicts from Florence were a cheap source of labor and the state used them to build roads through the mountains between Bisbee and Tombstone in 1913.
Convicts, slaves, and troops from Cuba were used as construction labor.
Convicts for crimes covered by this law were not subject to amnesty.
Convicts were employed in the shipbuilding industry.
Convicts were assigned to nearby farms and properties, and also worked on public buildings, roads and bridges.
Convicts were often given pardons prior to or on completion of their sentences and were allocated parcels of land to farm.
Convicts were usually sentenced to seven or fourteen years ' penal servitude, or " for the term of their natural lives ".
Convicts were assigned to work gangs to build roads, buildings, and the like.
Convicts were transferred to Van Diemen's Land from Sydney and, in later years, from 1841 to 1847, from Melbourne.
In the knockout rounds, Gotham defeated perennial rival Washington Renegades ( 10-0 ), but lost a hard-fought semifinal match to eventual world champion Sydney Convicts ( 10-35 ; notably, the Knights were the only team to score a try against the Convicts in the tournament ).
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