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 452 ORDER-m-COUNCIL. 1786 Order-ln- Council may appoint placoof transporfca* tlon. Court may order trans- fer of con- victs to contractor. New South Wales ap- pointed. number of years or term for which such person or persons is or are or shall be liable by any law to be transported ; and in every such case it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to declare and appoint to what place or places, part or parts, beyond the seas, either within his Majesty's dcMninions, or elsewhere out of his Majesty's dominionis, such felons or other offenders shall be conveyed or transported: And such Court as aforesaid is thereby authorised and empowered to order such offenders to be transported to the use of any person or per- sons, and his or their assigns, who shall contract for the due per- formance of such ti*ansportation : And when his Majesty, his heirs and successors, shall be pleased to extend mercy to any offender or offenders who hath or have been or sliall be convicted of any crime or crimes for which he, she, or they is, are, or shall be by law excluded from the benefit of clergy, upon condition of transportation to any place or places, part or parts beyond the seas, either for term of life, or any number of years, and such intention of mercy shall be signified by one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, it shall be lawful for any Court having proper authority to allow such offender or offenders the benefit of a conditional pardon, and (except in cases where such offender or offenders shall be authorised by his Majesty to transport himself, herself, or themselves) to order the transfer of such offender or offenders to any person or persons who shall contract for the due performance of such transportation, and his or their assigns, for such and the same terms of years for which such offender or offenders shall have been ordered to be transported, or for such term of life or years as shall be specified in such condition of transr portation as aforesaid : And whereas it hath been represented to his Majesty that the several offenders whose names are contained in the list hereunto annexed have been transported, or ordered to be transported, to parts beyond the seas, his Majesty doth hereby judge fit, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to declare and appoint the place to which the several offenders shall be transported for the term or terms in their several sentences mentioned, to be the eastern coast of New South Wales, or some one or other of the islands adjacent ; and all persons whom it may concern are to give the necessary directions for causing the said several offenders to l»e conveyed or transported to the eastern coast of New South Wales, or some one or other of the islands adjacent, in the manner directe^l by the said Act.* similar order was made, referring to females only. These, and other ocmvicts previously sentenced to be transported to America, were directed to l« ' ' transported to the eastern coast of New South Wales, or some one or other of the islands adjacent.'' Digitized by Google
 * At a Council held at the Court of St. James's on December 22, 17S6, ft