The following is an index to Certifcates of Freedom and Tickets of Leave for New South Wales. Few Tickets of Leave were issued this year,because the Government decided to suspend the issue of these Tickets while reforming their system of isse "Government Notice. Colonial Secretary's Office May 2nd 1826 The Impositions which are practised in Order to obtain Tickets of Leave, and the Facility with which Individuals, of the worst Character, obtain Certificates, as "honest, sober, and industrious" Persons, have rendered it necessary to suspend the Issue of 'Ticekts of Leave" until some Arrangements more effectual than the present can be established.Applications for Ticekts of Leave cannot, therefore, be acted on, until the present Regulations are Revised. By Command of His Excellency the Governor Alexander McLeay.' http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/scons26a.htm best wishes Jenny Fawcett