Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
2 October 1835
By the Government Return dated 26th September, it appears that there are 80 assignable females in the factory.
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In the Government Gazette of last night, the Commissariat give notice that all persons having in their charge convicts, either in barracks, road parties, ironed gangs, gaols, hulks, factory, hospitals, boats, &c., are requested to send in returns of the probable number to be clothed for the summer period, which commences on the 1st of November.
See Original: “Domestic and Miscellaneous Intelligence,” The Australian (Sydney, NSW: 1824 – 1848), Friday 2 October 1835, p.2.
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