360 HODGKINSON, Clement Australia from Port MacQuarie to Moreton Bay; with Description of the Natives, Their Manners and Customs; the Geology, Natural Productions, Fertility, and Resources of That Region; first Explored and Surveyed By Order of the Colonial Government. [T. and W. Boone, London, 1845] 1st ed., 243 pp with engraved plates and map. Original cloth boards. Scarce early account of the settlement of Moreton Bay and New South Wales from Port Macquarie north. A great deal on the Aborigines. Ex Libris Rodney Davidson bookplate. [Lot 342 Australian Book Auction, Feb.2006] $500–750 361 PRINCIPAL SUPERINTENDANT CONVICT OFFICE NEW SOUTH WALES circa 1845 brass handstamp with wooden handle and brass ring. Believed to be unique. $1,000–2,000 362 A CONDITIONAL PARDON signed by QUEEN VICTORIA: Andrew Munro, "now under Sentence of Transportation in Millbank Prison, he having been convicted of felony at Perth in April 1846…" is the beneficiary of this Conditional Pardon, granted and signed by Queen Victoria with her seal still intact. The pardon was issued "on condition that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the Gaol of Dundee for Eighteen Calendar Months." $1,500–2,000 363 BOOTED OFF NORFOLK ISLAND FOR BEING INTOXICATED: 2 October 1846 mss letter headed "Norfolk Island, Civil Commandants Office" from John Price (Governor of the Convict Settlement on Norfolk Island) to The Comptroller General at Hobart (J.S. Hampton). Price writes that "in consequence of... finding Mr Overseer Kelly in a disgraceful state of intoxication.... when he should have been in the fields with his gang...[he] felt it necessary to suspend Mr Kelly and have directed him to proceed per "Franklyn" to Hobart Town" and recommended "his dismissal from the service." Hampton’s signed notation (overleaf) confirms the dismissal by way of informing Charles Latrobe; dated 30 October 1846. An extremely rare piece of Norfolk Island history. $1,000–1,500 364 A FREE PARDON FOR JOSEPH TAYLOR: December 1846 Free Pardon signed by Governor Charles FITZROY and bearing his seal, issued in favour of Taylor, a tailor, who had originally been tried at Cumberland Assizes in 1830 at the age of 16, found guilty and transported for 7 years aboard "York" arriving at Sydney Cover in February 1831. The subject of the present Free Pardon is another event, "Stealing in a Dwelling house" for which he was tried and convicted in the Supreme Court Sydney in July 1846 and "had Sentence of Transportation for Seven years passed upon him..." The document indicates that "wheras some favorable circumstances have been represented unto [Fitzroy], he is granted this pardon "for his said crime." Sir Charles Fitzroy was chosen as the 10th Governor of New South Wales by Lord Stanley in 1845. Fitzroy replaced Sir George Gipps as governor who had been a strong ruler but had provoked the animosity of many in the colony. It is likely that Fitzroy was chosen because he tended to be more appeasing in his approach. Fitzroy, his wife and his son arrived in the colony on board HMS Carysfort on 2 August 1846. Sir Charles remained in New South Wales for 8 years, which saw many changes take place in the Australian colonies, not the least being the first tentative steps towards Federation. In 1853, Fitzroy was appointed Governor of Van Diemen’s Land, South Australia and Victoria – essentially a pre-Federation Governor-General of Australia, with wide-ranging powers to intervene in inter-colonial disputes. $1,000–1,500 360 361 54