REWARDS FOR APPRENDING RUNAWAYS

					Colonial Secretary's Office
					Sydney 13th April 1832 

His Excellency the Governor in Council, having taken into consideration 
the system of pecuniary rewards hitherto adopted in this Colony for the
apprehension of Runaway Convicts, is pleased to direct that the following
regulations be established, and those now in force annulled, from and
after the 30th Day of April instant:


2.For the apprehension and conveyance before a Magistrate of every
Runaway Convict, who shall have been absent twenty-four hours or upwards 
from Government work, or from the service of an Individual, there shall be paid
as a reward the sum of ten shillings, which sum may be increased to twenty
shillings if the Magistrate before whom the Convict is taken shall consider
that, from any particular circumstances attending the capture, the constable
or person capturing is entitled to a higher reward than ten shillings.

3.For the apprehension of a Runaway, who shall have been absent a similar
period from an Iron Gang, there shall be paid the sum of twenty shillings,
which sum may be increased to thirty shillings, if judged propery by the
Magistrate for the foregoing reasons.

4. These rewards to be paid by the Principal Superintendent of Police, in
Sydney, on the applicants producing and having as a voucher the Magistrate's
certificate, prepared in the form hereunto annexed (A).

5.In addition, if any Runaway so apprehended, shall, during the period of
his having been illegally at large, have committed any felonius offence of
which he shall after his apprehension, be convicted, the constable or other
person apprehending him shall, over and above the foregoing sums, receive a
further reward of five pounds. This reward to be also paid by the Principal
Superintendant of Police, in Sydney,upon the applicants producing a certificate
of conviction under the hand of the Clerk of the Court before which the 
Runaway was convicted, in the form hereunto annexed (B). together with the
certificate of the Magistrate, that the applicant had apprehended and brought
before him the person so convicted.

6.Nothing herein contained is to deprive the person or persons apprehending
notorius offenders of their claim to any reward the Government may think fit
to bestow in cases of remarkable skill, courage or perseverence.

7.Where Runaways are apprehended by prisoners of the Crown, who are entitled
by Government Regulations to an allowance of time in their probation for a
Ticket of Leave, as a reward for such meritious conduct, no pecuniary reward
shall be given, unless the prisoner shall waive his title to the allowance of
time in his probation, and take the pecuniary reward in lieu.
				By His Excelleny's Command
				Alexander McLeay.
	
FORM A
DISTRICT OF__________.
I ___________________ one of His Majesty's Justices iof the Peace
for the Territory of New South Wales, acting in the said District,
hereby certificate, at A.B has this day apprehended and brought
before me the body of C.D. proved before me to be a Runaway from
____________________: and I do therefore adjudge him, the said A.B.
a Reward of ________shillings, under the authority of the Government
Order of the 13th April 1832,
		   Given under my hand, at ___this day of_____18____


FORM B
I hereby certify, that A.B, a Prisoner of the Crown, was tried before 
________ on ______, and was convicted of _________.
		  Given under my hand, at____this day  of ____18_____