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 * +Character and origin of the population of New South Wales in 1820.
 * Free emigrants||1,307
 * Adults born in the colony||1,495
 * Children||5,668
 * Convicts in actual bondage||9,451
 * &emsp;Do.&emsp; holding tickets of leave||1,422
 * &emsp;Do.&emsp; free by servitude||3,255
 * &emsp;Do.&emsp; pardoned||1,121
 * Persons employed in colonial vessels||220
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 * &emsp;Do.&emsp; holding tickets of leave||1,422
 * &emsp;Do.&emsp; free by servitude||3,255
 * &emsp;Do.&emsp; pardoned||1,121
 * Persons employed in colonial vessels||220
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 * Persons employed in colonial vessels||220
 * }
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Such, therefore, was the character and origin of the actual population of New South Wales at the close of the thirty-third year of the existence of that colony, as the principal penal settlement of the British empire. Of a population of 23,939 persons at that period, there were only 1307 of the class of free emigrants, while not fewer than