In 1785, George Moore, Esq. received for transporting convicts £.1,512 7 6 John Kirby for expences 540 19 4 1786, John Kirby; further expences 578 10 1 Anthony Calvert for Transportation 286 14 0 Thomas Cotton, Esq. Cloathing, &c. 303 2 7 ------------ £.3,721 13 6[F]] [Footnote F: See Appendix (L. i.) to the 28th Report of Select Committee on Finance.] Another Act of the following year, (28 Geo. III. cap. 24,) empowered his Majesty, under his Royal Sign Manual, to authorize any person to make contracts for the Transportation of offenders, and to direct to whom security should be given for the due performance of the contract. By the Act of 30 George III. cap. 47, the Governor of the Settlement may remit the punishment of offenders there: and on a certificate from him their names shall be inserted in the next General Pardon. Under these various legislative regulations, the two Systems of Punishment, namely, the _Hulks_ and _Transportation_ to New South Wales, have been authorized and carried into execution. The System of the Hulks commenced on the 12th day of July, in the year 1776; and from that time until the 12th of December 1795, comprehending a period of nineteen years, 7999 Convicts were ordered to be punished by hard labour on the river Thames, and Langston and Portsmouth harbours, which are accounted for in the following manner: 1. Convicts ordered to hard labour on the River Thames, from 12th July 1776, to the 12th January, 1778 2024 2. Convicts, _under sentence of Transportation_, put on board the Hulks on the River Thames, from 11th January, 1783, to 12th December, 1795 4775 3. _Deduct_, under sentence of Transportation, put on board the Hulks in Langston and Portsmouth Harbours, received from the Hulks at Woolwich, on the 20th of June, 1791 466 ---- 4309 Additional Convicts sent from different prisons to Portsmouth and Langston from 1791, to 1st December, 1795 1200