A convict who commits a further offence after transportation.
the life-sentenced double convicts are usually sent to Norfolk Island
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It remained strictly a double convict station; no communication was allowed, except through the Government, until 1841.
We put to sea again about the middle of April for Sydney with ten double convicts on board.
These principles of law and usage are equally applicable to the tirade and whining complaints of this double convict, whose unlucky star has subjected him to two trials.
As to degradation, that is part of a double-convict's existence.
The Phoenix was condemned at Port Jackson as unseaworthy, purchased by Government, and made a receiving ship for double convicts.