Charles Fitzgerald

“ XXVIII. And be it enacted, that any person guilty of aiding and abetting the escape or intended escape from the colony of a convict under sentence of transportation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before a Court of General or Quarter Sessions, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Pounds, or to imprisonment not exceeding two years, or to both, at the discretion of the Court. ”

“ And whereas, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies has formally notified to His Excellency the Governor, that a number off such offenders as are referred to by the said Order in Council, are shortly to be conveyed to this colony in pursuance of the said Order, and has transmitted special instructions whereby such offenders are to be exempt in the first instance, and during good behaviour, from imprisonment and forced labour ”