HC Deb 17 March 1863 vol 169 c1551
MR. PERRY WATLINGTON

said, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If the following conditions are not still endorsed upon Tickets of Leave granted to Convicts in England; and, if not, whether he will lay upon the table of the House a copy of the Conditions upon which such Licences are now granted:—1. The power of revoking or altering the Licence of a Convict will most certainly be exercised in case of his misconduct. 2. If, therefore, he wishes to retain the privilege which by his good behaviour under penal discipline he has obtained, he must prove by his subsequent conduct, that he is really worthy of Her Majesty's clemency. 3. To produce a forfeiture of the Licence it is by no menus necessary that the holder should be convicted of any new offence. If he associates with notoriously bad characters, leads an idle and dissolute life, or has no visible means of obtaining an honest livelihood, &c., it will be assumed that he is about to relapse into crime, and he will be at once apprehended and recommitted to prison under his original sentence?

SIR GEORGE GREY

, in reply, said, the conditions referred to were not, and never had been, in force in England. If the hon. Gentleman would move for the form of the licence under the Act, and the notice endorsed upon it, there would be no objection to produce them.

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