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 PLATE XIX.

CONDUCTING AN OFFENDER INTO BANISHMENT.

PERSON, sentenced to transportation, is thus led, by an officer of justice, into the country appointed for his future residence. He carries a mat to serve him as a bed, and a leaf of a palm tree, to protect him from the weather. Upon his back, his crime, his sentence, and his name, are displayed in conspicuous characters.

This punishment is inflicted upon those, who have struck an elder brother; who have incurred debts by gaming, which they are unable to pay; and for such other offences as appear to render the perpetrator unworthy to continue in his native country.

When offenders are thus conducted into some distant province, they are to be recalled, but, if into Tartary, their banishment is perpetual.