342 A TICKET-OF-LEAVE TO LOOK FOR WORK September 1839 Van Diemen’s Land Ticket-of-Leave in favour of Thomas THORPE, granting him permission to travel "all streets" of Campbell Town to "look for work". Thorpe [listed as Thorp] had arrived aboard "Juliana" in December 1820. He had been sentenced to be transported for life. $500–750 343 MACONOCHIE, Alexander (Capt.) Australiana. Thoughts on Convict Management and other subjects connected with the Australian Penal Colonies. [London & Hobart; John W. Parker & J.C. MacDougall, 1839] Octavo bound in original blue cloth; remnant paper title to spine. With errata slip bound-in. Supplement to Thoughts on Convict Management. In 1836 Maconochie accompanied Sir John Franklin the new lieutenant-governor of Van Diemen’s Land to Hobart Town as his private secretary. Once there he prepared a report published as a parliamentary paper on the treatment of convicts. Its contents however proved so inflammatory that Franklin was forced to dismiss him. Maconochie was nonetheless given an opportunity to put his reformative theories on convict management into practice on Norfolk Island to which place he was appointed superintendent in 1840. It was on Norfolk Island that Maconochie "formulated and applied most of the principles on which modern penology is based" (ADB 1967). $500–750 ❖ 344 NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS: April 1840 Copy of a Letter addressed to the Secretary of State ofr the Colonial Department by Edward Macarthur...transmitting Copy of a Petition to the House of Commons, from certain Inhabitants of New South Wales."; April 1858 "ALLEGED CASE OF KIDNAPPING ISLANDERS." being correspondence between The Colonial Secretary, Mauritius, to the Under Secretary, Sydney; April 1875 "HARBOUR OF REFUGE AT TRIAL BAY. (Report respecting employment of prison labour in forming.)"; August 1875 "DISCOVERY OF GOLD. (Petition of E.W.Rudder.); March 1878 "FRANCIS O’MEARA. (Petition of.); and March 1886 Supplement to the New South Wales Government Gazette reporting on the Public Works Prison at Trial Bay. (6 items). $100–150 ❖ 345 A CONVICT DEPARTMENT PROBATION PASS circa 1840 A printed, but otherwise blank 2-sided Probation Pass-holder document which would give a convict official permission to proceed to the house of his or her employer, "there to remain in the hired Service..." of the free settler. "On the day the Bearer arrives at his Master’s residence, his Master will cause this Pass to be delivered to the Chief Constable of the District." The reverse of the form provides spaces for the identification of the convict, including details of the date and ship of arrival in the Colony, physical description and other details. The Probation System was introduced in Van Diemen’s Land for female convicts in 1843–1844, a few years after it was introduced for men. The main differences of this system over the Assignment System were: convicts spent 6 months on probation upon arrival in the colony—for female convicts this was on the Anson Probation Station, and, after its disbandment, New Town Farm. After serving their 6 months probation, convicts were classified as probation passholders and hired out, for an annual wage, to employers. We have not previously offered another example of these forms - used or unused. $300–500 346 THE WOEFUL TALE OF GEORGE NEAL, CONVICT: Part-printed Convict Record document on vellum providing extensive details of the trials and tribulations of one George Neal, a chimney sweep from Coventry who was sentenced to be Transported for 10 years at the Warwick Assizes in July 1839. He had broken in to a house and stolen 2 shirts. He arrived in Van Diemen’s Land aboard "Asia" in April 1840 along with 275 other convicts. Both sides of the closely written document recount the many instances of absconding, insolence, neglect of duty, disgraceful conduct, disobedience, refusing to work, idleness, larceny, disorderly conduct, disrespectful conduct, use of improper language, having a knife blade in his possession and the like which, during the next 10 years resulted in his many punishments: periods of hard labour in chains, periods in solitary confinement on bread and water, periods on a tread wheel, lashings, extension of his sentence and ultimately having his period of Transportation extended. The recitation of his crimes and punishments makes astonishing reading. Neal (or Neale or Neill) gained his freedom in July 1849 but was subsequently sentenced to Life Imprisonment in December 1855. $1,000–1,500 342 345 50