TICKET-OF-LEAVE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Ticket-of-leave

... and his family left Nyalong, and I was appointed Clerk to the Justices at Colac. I sat under them for twelve years, and during that time I wrote a great quantity of criminal literature. When a convict of good conduct in Pentridge was entitled to a ticket-of-leave, he usually chose the Western district as the scene of his future labours, so that the country was peopled with old Jack Bartons and young ones. Some of the young ones had been Philip's scholars—viz., the Boyles and the Blakes. They were friends of the Bartons, ...

— The Book of the Bush • George Dunderdale