An Act for the Prevention of Vagrancy (1836)
GOVERNMENT:
Major-General
Sir Richard Bourke, KCB [1] Governor, 3/12/1831-5/12/1837
"Every person not being a black native
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An Act for the Prevention of Vagrancy and for the
punishment of Idle and Disorderly Rogues and Vagabonds and incorrigible Rogues
in the Colony of New South Wales (6
Geo. IV. No.6) 25 August 1836 (repealed by 15 Vic. No. 4, 1851] [2]
" Whereas it is expedient to make provisions
for the prevention of Vagrancy and for the punishment of idle and disorderly
persons and rogues and vagabonds in the Colony ... and every person not being a
black native or the child of any black native who being found wandering in
company with any of the black natives of this Colony shall not being thereto
required by any Justice of the Peace give a good account to the satisfaction of
such Justice that he or she hath a lawful means of support and that such
lodging or wandering hath been for some temporary and lawful occasion only and
hath not continued beyond such occasion ... and every person wandering abroad
or placing himself or herself in any public place street highway court or
passage to beg or gather alms or causing or procuring or encouraging any child
or children to do so shall be deemed an idle and disorderly person within the
true intent and meaning of this Act and it shall be lawful for any Justice of
the Peace to commit such offender (being thereof convicted before him by his
own view or by the confession of such offender or by the evidence on oath of
one or more credible witness or witnesses) to His Majesty's nearest gaol or
house of correction there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding
three calendar months .. "
[1] p130 dict aust biog whig
[2] :
An Act for the Prevention of Vagrancy and
for the punishment of Idle and Disorderly Rogues and Vagabonds and incorrigible
Rogues in the Colony of