The Pioneer Missionary Life of the Rev Nathaniel Turner Missionary in New Zea
The Pioneer Missionary Life of the Rev Nathaniel Turner Missionary in New Zea
J G Turner
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The penal settlement was reserved for the most hardened offenders. The term of servitude for the assigned convict varied according to his sentence of transportation : if the sentence was for seven years, he had to serve four before he could have a ticket of leave for good conduct; if for fourteen, six ; and eight years, if his sentence was for life. The ticket of leave in a great measure returned con- victs to the condition of free men. They could hire out their labour for wages, or enter into ...business on their own account ; but they were not allowed to go beyond their own 134 T^HE PIONEER MISSIONARY. district of the island, and were obliged to attend public worship ahce in the week, and a general muster before the magistrates once a month. At the expiration of their term, or earlier, if their conduct was satisfactory, a conditional pardon was granted ; and continued good conduct was somtimes followed by a full pardon, which restored them to all the rights of free men. If the assigned prisoner was convicted of any offence during the term of his servitude, he forfeited the time that had elapsed, and had to com- mence anew ; and the first conviction of the ticket-of-leave man exposed its possessor to forfeit it, and to be returned to that state of bondage from which he had been released.
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