Services Avere held at Sytliiey, iii front of Government

House, Parramattaj Castle Hill, and Hawkeslinry, **at which places all personn not prevented hy sickness are expected to attend/' Three volleys were tired after the service, and the hatterx' at Dawen' Point lired a salute. The general powers of tlie Governor were heely resorted ^to by King, tliongh it miint he remembered to hi^ credit ■that at Norfolk Island he stoutly contended that no freed mman should be tlogged. In July 1804 *' a general muster of Hall the male prisoners on and off the stores ; also freemen ■ of all descriptions (except those who hold ground l)y gi'ant, ■ lease, or rental) on or off the stores'* was ordered to be held* Women %Yere to attend on a different dtij, **A11 persons who do nut appear at these musters will be taken up as vagrants, and punished to the utmost extent of the law, if ^^ee/' Prisoners faihng to attend were to be sent to the H^aol gang for twelve months. On the 4th Aug. 1804 it was ordered tliat no

• • prisoner or fi et^innn who is not a settler, 18 to leave the place be resiik's

in without a pus.-^ Iroiii tbt magistrate or officer in commantl uf th*j district. If a fri^eniati offeutls he will, on conviction, labour three nioiitlis for the public ; ji prisoner to receive a coqioral punishment, at the discre- tion of the magistrates, not exceetliiig 100 lashes. . » . Persons employing or liarbuniing any prisoner or freeman without seeing his certificate or permiaaionj will on conviction he lined £j, and 2s. iid. for each day audi freeman or prisoner has been harboured or employed j and £20, with 2», in. eaeh drvy aiis itrisoner has been harboured or errtployed nntil he is regularly indented tor, aueording to the Orders of (ith Jan. 1804." These orders were promulgated shortly after the rebellion^ and rigid as they were, they did not shake the public conh- dence in him whose vigilance had contributed to the pre- vention of general massacre. The Orders of Jan. 1801 furnished a complete form of indenture whicli employers _^were to subscribe on receiving convicts as "'Indented ■ Servants." Some special difficulties with regard to eon- victs may be mentioned under the head of arbitrar}^ Orders, for the wliole of the prisoner class was subject to them without appeal. Tiie following paragraph in a despatch ^^ shows the weapons with which the wilier convicts contended against their keepers. ^ King to Duke of Portland, 21st Aug. 1801. An original indent m King's pDs&esBion aided in detection of the frauds deacvib^bd.