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Convicts were often given pardons prior to or on completion of their sentences and were allocated parcels of land to farm.
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Convicts were still a common sight for years later.
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 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 were transported to Australia in 1787, arriving in Botany Bay, then Sydney Cove, in January 1788.
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 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.
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.
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 ).
Convicts in Western Australia were never assigned, with the debatable exception of the Parkhurst apprentices.
Convicts and often
Convicts completing their sentences or earning their ticket-of-leave often promptly left Van Diemen's Land.
Convicts are often called prisoners or inmates.
Convicts and on
* Main articles: Port Arthur, Tasmania, Convicts on the West Coast of Tasmania
* In the novel The Convicts by Iain Lawrence, young Tom Tin is sent to Van Diemen's Land on charges of murder
Convicts escape from jails and prisons ; the local retirement homes are filled with panicked people ; and a run on the bank results in the bank closing and local merchants selling out of nearly all supplies.
* Convicts on the West Coast of Tasmania
Category: Convicts transported to Australia on the First Fleet
* Convicts on the West Coast of Tasmania
The Convicts album was also released in the USA on Yep Roc Records.
He is one of the final players available on the Convicts team and has the highest amount of strength and aggression of all recruitable Convict players, although he has the equal-lowest teamplay rating in the game.
Henri explained the problem — whether or not he had the right to take off a jersey — and went on to talk of drugs, reported in Londres ' race diary, in which he invented the phrase Les Forçats de la Route ( The Convicts of the Road ):
He arrived in June 1790 on the Second Fleet convict ship Neptune and not only served in this role, but was made Superintendent of Convicts on Norfolk Island, in Parramatta and Sydney.
Having served well on a number of convict ships to Van Diemen's Land, Hampton was appointed Comptroller-General of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land in May 1846.
* Convicts on the West Coast of Tasmania
Lewton resigned at Universal and began preparation to work on the film My Six Convicts but after suffering gallstone problems, he had the first of two heart attacks which weakened him such that he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1951 at the age of forty-six.
Category: Convicts transported to Australia on the First Fleet
# redirect Convicts on the West Coast of Tasmania
The convict era is introduced in articles about Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, Convicts on the West Coast of Tasmania, and Hell's Gates.
* Convicts on the West Coast of Tasmania
Category: Convicts transported to Australia on the First Fleet
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.
Category: Convicts transported to Australia on the First Fleet
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 their
* Marjorie Tipping, Convicts Unbound: The story of the Calcutta convicts and their settlement in Australia, Melbourne, Viking O ’ Neil, 1988.
In the four years between Deliverance and You Am I's next album, Convicts, both Davey Lane and Tim Rogers kept busy with their own solo projects.
In late 2005, You Am I recorded their seventh studio album entitled Convicts with producer Greg Wales.
Many Australians felt a sense of shame about the existence of British Convicts in what is now Australia, and many did not even attempt to investigate their families ' origins, for fear that they could be descended from criminals.
* Convicts ( most of them sentenced to death ), could become slaves and their property would belong to state.
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