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value the security of their property, to give 

 their utmost assistance to those immediately 

 concerned in tlife executive part of the civil 

 police, in putting as speedily as possible, a stop 

 to so very great an evil. It is also particularly 

 recommended to the principal inhabitants of the 

 towns of Sydney and Paramatta, that they 

 select a few of the most respectable of their 

 number, in each division of these towns, whom 

 they may authorize to consider, of the most ef- 

 fectual means of detecting the robber, and 

 bringing them to trial ; whether by such rewards 

 as they may be enabled to offer, or by small 

 divisional patroles for the night service, and 

 who shall take that duty by turns, and be under 

 the immediate direction of a reputable inhabit- 

 ant, of their own choice, or an officiating con- 

 stable selected from among the most sober and 

 vigilent of that description of persons." 



Proposals were to be sent to the Judge Advo- 

 cate's office, and a bench of magistrates were 

 either to approve or alter them. 



This order was published on the 2d, and next 

 day the following appeared : 



" The continual complaints which are made 

 of the conduct of the female convicts require 

 the most rigid and determined discipline with 

 such characters, who to the disgrace of their 

 sex, are far worse than the men, and are gene- 

 rally found at the bottom of every infamous 

 transaction that is committed in the colony. 

 It is hereby most strenuously recommended U> 

 the magistrates in general, that on proof being 



