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== Types of Convict Records == | == Types of Convict Records == | ||
=== Tickets of | === Tickets of Leave Butts === | ||
*'''Tickets of leave''' were issued to convicts having served about half of their sentences with good behavior. | |||
*These tickets '''allowed convicts to seek employment''' as they wished but '''limited their movement to a certain district''' for the remainder of their sentences. | |||
*Prior to 1828, bench magistrates granted tickets of leave and approved applications for convicts to marry. | |||
*The actual ticket of leave was issued to the convict; '''the government retained the ticket of leave butts'''. | |||
*'''Ticket of leave butts listed the convict’s name, ship, and date of arrival, native place, trade or calling, date and place of trial and sentence, a physical description, and the district to which he or she was confined.''' | |||
=== Certificates of Freedom === | === Certificates of Freedom === | ||