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CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Chapter IX. | |
| Suggestions for ensuring the future efficiency of Transportation as a species of punishment.—Changes in the system to be effected in England | 115 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| The discontinuance of the assignment system expedient and practicable | 124 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| The practicability of obtaining free labour from the mother country, to the full extent required in New South Wales | 135 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| The practicability of employing transported convicts at government labour exclusively, without increasing the expense of Transportation to the mother country | 156 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| Illustration of the facility with which a large number of convicts could be permanently and profitably employed in forming locations for free emigrant settlers | 168 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| A third mode of employing convicts at government labour on the Australian continent | 194 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| Officers required for carrying into effect the new system of management proposed | 203 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| The extent to which emigration to New South Wales is at present practicable under the land-selling system, with remarks on the value of that system to the mother country as well as to the colony | 210 |
| Conclusion | 224 |
| Postscript | 243 |
