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On the 2nd November, 1829, thirty-eight free pardons and fifty-six conditional pardons appeared on the books; and the number of persons holding tickets-of-leave, on the 26th of September the same year, was seven hundred and forty-five. Of the social condition of these people at this time it is impossible to speak without astonishment.
Hume's careful and sagacious observations of the route by which they had come enabled him to lead the party rapidly and safely back to Sydney, where the leaders were rewarded with grants of land and the convicts with tickets-of-leave.
Of those who had been convicts, some were still working out their sentences with tickets-of-leave, while others, who were free to go where they liked, were too old and destitute of energy to venture on a change of occupation, and remained as before, hut-keepers or shepherds.
Such is the life of ignoble idleness to which, by not enforcing industry, we have condemned these sable tickets-of-leave. Before quitting the African coast I diffidently suggested certain steps towards regenerating our unhappy colony.
"Wonder if they practise picking one another's pockets to keep their hands in, of an evening." "I'm told that jailbird has got an album full of tickets-of-leave." "Ah! His father must have travelled a good bit in his time." It was pitiful, paltry jesting, but it was more than I could stand. "Will you stop?" I shouted. "Nobody was speaking to you," said Wallop. "You were speaking of my friend!"
We shall seek from the authorities the privilege of supervising and reporting upon those who are discharged with tickets-of-leave, so as to free them from the humiliating and harassing duty of having to report themselves at the police stations. We shall find suitable employment for each individual. If not in possession of some useful trade or calling we will teach him one.
Several 'tickets-of-leave' had already been granted at Fremantle; and on this subject we are presented with a mass of remarkable and instructive information.
A list is given of the convicts who obtained tickets-of-leave at Fremantle, with their trades, and the names of their employers, and the wages they were to receive. A groom received L.12 per annum; a carpenter, L.14; a labourer, L.1 per month; a blacksmith, L.1, 8s. per month; a mason, L.1, 10s. per month; and a brickmaker, L.2, 10s. per month.
Eden's plan is a herculean effort day by day repeated; but to set texts is easy, easier even than to learn them and how easy that is appears from the multitude of incurable felons who have swapped texts for tickets-of-leave. Messieurs Lepel, who teach solitary depressed sinners the Bible with screw and lifted lash and no love nor pity, a word in your ear. Begin a step higher.
I would allow a degree of intercourse between such as were disposed to confirm each other in good. Watch them? why, of course and closely, too. "Intelligent labor for every creature in the place. No tickets-of-leave to let the hypocritical or self-deceiving ones loose upon the world. "No, I test their repentance first with a little liberty. "How?
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