"THE BARRACKS", MACQUARIE STREET, SYDNEY
Information board showing the following:
CRIMES PUNISHABLE BY DEATH
About 160 crimes punishable by death many of which were commuted to transportation. Some of these are:
Shoplifting above 5 shillings
Stealing above 40 shillings in any house
Stealing horses, cattle or sheep
Highway robbery
Forgery of deeds, bonds, bills, notes and bank clerks embezzling notes
Arson or maliciously burning a house, barns with corn etc.
Destroying ships or setting on fire
Setting fire to coalmines
Destroying turnpikes or bridges, weighing engines, locks or sluices
Destroying machines that manufacture textiles
Some crimes punished by transportation - could also be punished by whipping, imprisonment, pillory or hard labour.
Petty larceny or theft under 1 shilling
Grand larceny or theft above 1 shilling
Receiving or buying stolen goods
Stealing letters or destroying mail
Assault with intent to rob
Aliens returning after being ordered out of the country
Stealing fish from a pond or river or buying stolen fish
Stealing trees, or plants to value of 5 shillings or destroying them
Bigamy
Counterfeiting coins
Marriage - solemnising clandestinely
Manslaughter or killing another without malice
Cutting or stealing timber trees
Watermen carrying too many passengers on the Thames if any drown
Entering a park and killing or wounding deer
Hunting deer in forest
Deserting from army or navy
Burglary
Escaping from house of correction
Setting fire to barns or stacks of hay
Stealing children with their apparel
Practicing as a lawyer after a conviction for perjury
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The foregoing information seen on the top floor of Barracks, Macquarie Street, room opposite the room containing the hammocks. 1986.
This is the end of the transcription of Battle Against the Odds, Chapter 12.
