Proclamation to Expel Aboriginals from Settled Districts

The Hobart Town Gazette' of Saturday, April 26, 1828. The leading article is a Proclamation by George Athur, Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Van Diemen's Land and its Dependencies, namely that '....since the primary Settlement of this Colony, various acts of aggression, violence, and cruelty have been, from different causes, committed on the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Island, by Subjects of His Majesty. And whereas, for the preventing and punishing such sanguinary, and wicked practices.....(it was) 'declared, that any Person whosoever, who should offer violence to a Native, or should, in cool blood, murder, or cause any of them to be murdered, should, on proof being made of the same, be dealt with, and proceeded against, as if such violence had offered or Murder committed on a civilized Person.....', which had evidently been unsuccessful leading to the current Proclamation intended to effect 'the retirement or expulsion of the Aborigines from the Settled Districts of this Territory'., On the last page of the Gazette there is a list of the convicts (and the ships in which they had been transported), who had completed the period of their sentences and 'Certificates have been granted to them accordingly'. There are 3 female convicts mentioned in the list of 39. With a fine strike of the Two Pence Newspaper tax stamp.,