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 TO REMIT SENTENCES. 543 to be the place or places to which other felons and offenders shall 1791 hereafter be conveyed and transported and such felons and offenders may be so transported accordingly : And whereas by an Act passed in the last session of Parliament intituled An Act to enable his Majesty to authorise his Governor Act of or Lieutenant-Governor of such places beyond the seas to which fuSoriaiS^ felons or other offenders may be transported to remit the sentences remission of such offenders It is enacted that it shall and may be lawful for o'**"^"*^- us our heirs and successors at all times by our or their Commission under the Great Setd of Great Britain to authorise and empower the Governor or the Lieutenant-Governor for the time being of that part or parts to which felons and other offenders had been or should hereafter be transported and conveyed by an instrument in writing under the seal of the Government in which the place or Governor places aforesaid should be situated to remit either absolutely or JJ^^^St'^ conditionally the whole or any part of the time or term for which any such felons or other offenders aforesaid had been or ehould hereafter be respectively conveyed and transported to such place or places as aforesaid such instrument or instruments as aforesaid having the like force and effect to all intents and purposes as if We our heirs and successors had in such cases respectively signified our or their royal intention of mercy under our or their sign manual : And it is further enacted that such Governor or Lieutenant- Governor as aforesaid shall by the first opportunity transmit to one Governor to of our Principal Secretaries of State a duplicate under the seal of dopu^ the Government of [aoin oriffinal] J>'J*« oath and every instrument as aforesaid by which the time or term remitting of transportation of any such felons or other offenders as aforesaid sentence, hath been remitted or shortened and that the names of such felons or other offenders respectively which shall be contained in such duplicates as aforesaid shall be inserted in the next general pardon which shall pass under the Great Seal of Great Britain after the receipt of such duplicate or duplicates by one of our Principal Secretaries of State : And whereas it would greatly advance the design of such sen- tences so carried into execution as aforesaid or which may here- after be passed and carried into execution by transporting felons and other offenders to the eastern coast of New South Wales or the Expedient islands thereunto adjacent that the Governor or (in case of his ^ ^^^ death or absence) the Lieutenant-Governor for the time being of our territory of the eastern coast of New South Wales and the islands thereunto adjacent should have power and authority to remit or shorten the time or term for which such felons and offen- ders as aforesaid have been or shall hereafter be transported in cases where it shall appear that such felons or other offenders fu*e proj)er objects of the royal mercy : Digitized by Google