CONVICT DISCIPLINE: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.

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Copies or Extracts of any Correspondence between the Secretary of State having the Department of the Colonies and the Governors of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land on the subject of Convict Discipline not already laid before the House. Colonial Office Downing Street ... Ordered to be printed 9th February 1846. Folio. Contemp.hf.roan (hinges weak extremities rubbed). (VIII254pp.). With 4 folding litho. plates/plans hand-col. in outline being (1) Chart of Norfolk Island from actual Survey (1840); (2) Sections of Cells at the Female Factory Parramatta; (3) Proposed Buildings for Prisoners as entertained by Capt. Maconochie; and (4) Chart of Forestier's and Tasman's Peninsula V.D.L. F.4288. Contents fine and complete. NOTE: This important paper records a series of despatches relating to convict discipline from July 1838 to March 1843 and is divided into three parts; Pt.1 includes material on Maconochie and Norfolk Island; Pt.2 deals with convict discipline in N.S.W. and V.D.L. and includes a report from Lieut.-Gov. Franklin to Lord Stanley on the Probation System. There is a highly important letter from Gov. Gipps to Stanley re Maconochie and Norfolk Island; Pt.3 deals mainly with convict descipline in V.D.L. Of the utmost importance and extremely scarce.