a crown labourer could be assigned to a free settler
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There are, at this present time, in the year 1826, upwards of 25,000 male convicts, able-bodied crown labourers.
Only those willing and capable of performing the ordinary work of a Crown labourer will be received.
His Crown labourers drew a prize when they entered his service, seldom leaving it, if well behaved, but as free men.
If those 10,000 crown labourers were employed in clearing and fencing farms, they would clear and fence a sufficient quantity of land every year for several thousand farms.
The settler will in the second year of his settlement, require an additional crown labourer.