Assignment List of 280 Male Convicts embarked in the Ship "Aboukir" for Van Diemens Land

Under the British Transportation Acts104 a property in the services of the convicts was conveyed by the Crown to the contractor responsible for transporting them to the place of transportation, and on arrival from the Contractor to the Governor; the nominal lists known as assignment lists were the enclosures in the deed poll by which this conveyance was made. After the Act of 1824 the list as it was received by the Colonial Office from the Home Office was merely sent to the Governor, without any covering document.

Source: CON13/1/11 Assignment lists and associated papers (1 Jan 1851 - 31 Dec 1852)
Source: Tasmania Government Archives, Australia, Convict Records