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 834 APPENDIX D. c. 56. XTgo 30 Geo. Ill, cap. 47. Ak Act for enabling his Majesty to authorize his Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of such places beyond the seas to which felons or other offenders may be transported to remit the sentences of such offenders. Whereas by several Orders made by his Majesty, by and with the advice of his* Privy Council, in pursuance* of authority given to his Majesty in that behalf by an Act passed in the twenty- 24 Geo. Ill, fourth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled, " An Act for the effectual transportation of felons and other offenders, and to authorize the« removal of prisoners in certain cases, and for other purposes therein mentioned," his Majesty hath declared and appointed, by and with the Udvice aforesaid, th&t the eastern coast of New South Wales, and the islands thereto adjacent, should be the place or places beyond sea to which certain felons and other offenders should be conveyed and transported : And whereas several felons and other offenders have, in pursuance of the said Act, been conveyed and transported to the eastern coast of New South Wales, or the islands thereunto adjacent, there to remain during the terms or times for which they were so respectively sentenced to be transported by the Courts in which they were convicted : And whereas his Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, may hereafter declare and appoint the place or places aforesaid, or some other place or places beyond the sea, to be the place or places to which' other felons and offenders shall hereafter be conveyed andl transported : And such felons and offenders may be so transported accordingly : And whereas it would greatly advance the design of such sentences so carried into execution as aforesaid, or which may hereafter be passed and carried into execution, that the Governor, or (in case of his death or absence) the Lieutenant-Governor for the time being, of such the