These events revolutionised the social state of the colonies. Free workmen and their families formed an intermediate class, whose interests were hostile to a penal government, and to bond labor in every form. The individual importance of employers consoled them for their political dependence; and the subservience of transportation to their material prosperity, reconciled them to the restrictions it imposed. The free workman found it an obstacle to his advancement: it depressed his wages and debased his position, but gave him nothing. If his industry raised him, he yet retained the sympathies of his early life: he remained distrustful of the rich, jealous of rank, and fond of the equality of human rights. Trial by jury, legislative assemblies, and official responsibility, found earnest advocates, where they had often been mere rallying points of personal discontent. All this was foreseen by Arthur: when free laborers were intruded by the crown, the great bond of his system was broken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISPOSAL OF CROWN LANDS IN NEW SOUTH WALES AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. ---------------+-------+--------------------+---------------+------------------ Authority. | Date. | Terms. | Superseded. | Remarks. ---------------+-------+--------------------+---------------+------------------ King's sign |1787 |Residence on the |1810. |100 acres only to manual to |and | grant. | | any person, over governors of |1789. |Cultivation and | | the quantity New South | | improvement. | | allowed to Wales. | |Reservation of naval| | emancipists. | | timber. | | | |Quit rent: | | | | emancipists. 6d. | | | | per 30 acres; free | | | | settlers, 2s. per | | | | 100 acres, after | | | | ten years. | | | | | | Governor |January|Quit-rent, 2s. per |November 30, |Town allotments Macquarie. |1, 1810| 100 acres. | 1821. | usually leased at | |Cultivation of a | | Hobart Town for | | proportion (20th | | twenty-one years, | | part) in five years| | quit rent 30s. | |Reservation of naval| | per acre; 7 only | | timber. | | were granted, | |Right of forming | | 1820. Allotments | | highways. | | were occupied at