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The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) by David Dickinson Mann
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without permission from the magistrate.

_Passage-boats._--Not to convey any person, unless a
settler, without a pass; penalty, confiscation. The boats to be
kept tight; carry four oars, one mast and sail; boatmen to treat
passengers civilly; to give notice half an hour before they
depart, by bell ringing; not to stop more than ten minutes by the
way, nor to go alongside a vessel, without acquainting the
wharfinger; and the proprietors to keep entry-books, under the
penalty of forfeiting the bond and recognizances entered into at
the time their license was granted. The following charges to be
made: Each passenger to pay 1s.; children 6d.; luggage 1s. per
cwt.; wheat or shelled maize 6d. per bushel; maize in cob 4d. per
bushel; each chair 6d.; sheep and goats 6d. each; pigs and
packages, according to their size; liquids 1d. per gallon; porter
3s. per hhd.; planks 2s. 6d. per 100 feet; fowls and ducks 1s.
per dozen; geese and turkies 1s. 2d. per dozen; parcels weighing
2lbs. 3d.; and private letters 2d. each. The hire of the whole
boat 1l. 1s.

_Passes_.--No person, unless a settler, to leave his
place of abode without a pass, which he is to produce to the
chief constable at the settlement expressed in it, and return it
to the officer who granted it, under the penalty of three months
hard labour, if free; and, if a prisoner, corporal punishment, at
discretion of one magistrate, not exceeding one hundred
lashes.

_Permits_--for removing half a gallon of spirits, etc.
to be granted by commissioned officers, superintendants, and
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