Convict Gratuities

				Government Order No 11.
				Colonial Secretary's Office
				Sydney 20th May 1831

His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, that the
Regulations respecting 'Gratuities" as laid down in the Government
Order of 31st May, 1826, No 25, and in the Circular Letter of
1st May, 1828, have been revised and modified as follows: viz:-

1st.From the 1st Day of July next, the Gratuities to be allowed
    to Prisoners of the Crown will be divided into two Classes,
    namely:
	1st Class...1s.0d. per diem
	2nd Class...0s.8d. per diem

2nd.Overseers and others now of the 1st Class, will receive the
   Gratuity of One Shilling a day, and those of the present 2nd
   and 3rd Class will be rated in the 2nd Class of the new Scale,
   and be allowed Eight-pence.

3rd. Prisoners attached to the Public Offices, as Messengers,will
   be allowed the Gratuity of the first Class, after twelve months
   good behaviour in the second.  But other Prisoners will not be 
   raised from the lower to the upper Class, unless a vacancy shall
   occur: in which case they may be recommended to succeed.

4th. Free Men employed as Messengers, and others who are now in 
   the receipt of 2s .per diem, without rations, will be continued
   from the 1st of July at 1s.9d, being the amount of the First
   Class gratuity, together with  an allowance of Nine-pence per
   diem, in lieu of rations and clothing.

5th. With the foregoing exceptions, the Regulations contained in
   the Government Order, no 25, of 1828, above alluded to, will 
   remain in force.

		By His Excellency's Command
		Alexander McLeay.