See also:

• TICKET (O. Fr. esliquet, also estiquette, mod. etiquette, from Ger. sleeken, to stick up)

TICKET (O. Fr. esliquet, also estiquette, mod. See also:

• ETIQUETTE

etiquette, from Ger. sleeken, to stick up)  , by origin a small See also:

• BILL

bill See also:

• STUCK, FRANZ (1863— )

stuck up for the purpose of giving See also:

• NOTICE

notice or See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information, hence a small printed or written card or slip, containing a notice, See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order or the like, and more particularly such an one as embodies the terms under which the party issuing the See also:

• TICKET (O. Fr. esliquet, also estiquette, mod. etiquette, from Ger. sleeken, to stick up)

ticket grants some right, See also:

• PRIVILEGE

privilege or See also:

• LICENCE (through the French from Lat. licentia, licere, to be lawful)

licence to the party to whom it is issued; where there has been valuable See also:

• CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration for such given by the holder the ticket is the method by which the parties enter into a See also:

• CON

con-See also:

• TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract . The most See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar of this last class of tickets is the passenger's ticket issued by railway companies, tramways or " See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• CARRIERS

carriers " in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general . The ticket does not usually contain the whole terms of the See also:

• CONTRACT
• CONTRACT (Lat. contract us, from contrahere, to draw together, to bind)

contract, but refers to the conditions under which it is issued, to which the holder is considered subject if sufficient notice of them is given . A ticket of See also:

• ADMISSION

admission issued for a See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre, or See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of entertainment, constitutes a licence to the holder to occupy and use a seat, whether particularized or not, and such parts of the See also:

• BUILDING

building as may be open to him . Such a licence can be revoked by the issuer, and the holder may be ejected as a trespasser, subject to his right to bring an See also:

• ACTION

action for See also:

• DAMAGES (through O. Fr. damage, mod. Fr. dommage, from Lat. damnum, loss)

damages . TICKET-OF-LEAVE, a See also:

• TERM

term first invented for the " emancipists " in the days of Australian transportation (see See also:

• DEPORTATION

DEPORTATION) ; in the See also:

• ENGLISH

English penal See also:

• SYSTEM

system, a document or " pass " handed to a convict who has completed the second See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage of his See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence and is about to enter the third and last, that of conditional liberation or semi-freedom, in which he goes at large to See also:

• EARN

earn his own livelihood as a more or less See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent member of the community . The " ticket " or " licence " is the outward sign of " remission " gained by See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry and blameless conduct in See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison (see PRISON), and it may be forfeited for disobedience or neglect of certain conditions endorsed upon the licence . Convicts are by See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law required to See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report themselves at an appointed place within See also:

• FORTY

forty-eight See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours after liberation and again every succeeding See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month at the See also:

• POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police station nearest to their place of See also:

• ABODE (from " abide," to dwell, properly " to wait for ," to bide)

abode, between the hours of nine in the See also:

• MORNING

morning and nine in the evening . They must get their living by honest means and See also:

• REGULAR

regular employment, and must reside—that is to say, See also:

• SLEEP (0. Eng. slcepan; Ger. schlafen; cf. Lat. labi, to glide, and " slip ")

sleep—at the address notified by them to the police in order that they may be found at once if required for any legal and justifiable purpose . If they ' See See also:

• WARTON, JOSEPH (1722-1800)
• WARTON, THOMAS (1728-1790)
• WARTON, THOMAS (c. 1688-1745)

Warton's See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note in the See also:

• BATHOS (Gr. 3hOos)

Bathos (ed . See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope and Elwin, x . 388) where he quotes from See also:

• TICKELL, THOMAS (1686-174o)

Tickell's version and from See also:

• ADDISON, JOSEPH (1672-1719)

Addison and says the same author.See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change their address or withdraw from any known police See also:

• DISTRICT

district, they must give notice of their removal at the police station at which they have been See also:

• REPORTING

reporting, stating the place to which they are going, and, as far as practicable, their address there, and also at the nearest police station within forty-eight hours of arriving in any other police district in any See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• UNITED

United See also:

• KINGDOM

Kingdom They must produce their licences whenever they are called upon to do so by a police officer .

This treatment of offenders who have already expiated their crimes has been deemed to See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear heavily on any who are anxious to turn over a new See also:

• LEAF (O. Eng. leaf, cf. Dutch loof, Ger. Laub, Swed. lof, &c.; possibly to be referred to the root seen in Gr. Ma-eta, to peel, strip)

leaf . To be ever subject to the watchfulness of the police must often increase the licence-holder's difficulty of leading an honest See also:

• LIFE

life . The struggle is known to be often severe; employers of labour are not too ready to accept the services of " See also:

• GAOL, or JAIL

gaol birds," and See also:

• FREE

free workmen often resent the admission of an old convict amongst their number . Private charity has come forward to diminish or remove this hardship, and many See also:

• SOCIETIES, LEARNED

societies have been called into existence for the purpose of assisting discharged prisoners . They are to be found in most of the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal cities of the United Kingdom . See also:

• LONDON

London alone has those of the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

Army, the St See also:

• GILES (GIL, GILLES), ST

Giles's See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• MISSION

Mission, the Salvation Army, the See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic Aid Society and the Royal Society for the Assistance of Discharged Prisoners, which was founded in 1856 and has done a vast and meritorious See also:

• WORK

work . It labours chiefly in the See also:

• METROPOLIS (Gr. piir17Pi mother, srGXis, city)

metropolis; it is supported by private subscriptions, but it has See also:

• CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control also over the gratuities of the licencees who accept its aid . The prisoners on See also:

• RELEASE (O.Fr. reles, variant of relais, from relaisser, to release, let go, Lat. relaxare)

release are first examined at the society's See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office as to their prospects and wishes; they are given some See also:

• POCKET

pocket-See also:

• MONEY

money out of their own gratuities; and their " See also:

• LIBERTY (Lat. libertas, from liber, free)

liberty clothing," a See also:

• PRESENT

present from the prison, is changed for more suitable clothes . They are then placed in respectable lodging-houses until employment is obtained for them, after which the society undertakes the reporting to the police and by its own agents exercises a See also:

• WATCH (in O. Eng. wcecce, a keeping guard or watching, from wacian, to guard, watch, wacan, to wake)

watch over its proteges . There are upwards of sixty-five societies, all certified by the secretary of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, of which the number is increasing; every See also:

• YEAR

year the subscriptions increase, more money is expended, more cases are aided and more ex-convicts are rehabilitated . Unfortunately a large number of those who solicit help belong to the class of " lazy loafers who like neither work nor honesty," and who, when the first is found, will not adhere to the latter . Most of the societies employ agents who See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act as intermediaries between employers and ex-convicts and fill a place analogous to that of the " See also:

• PROBATION

probation See also:

• OFFICERS

officers " in parts of the United States (see PROBATION); but the probation officer generally interposes at an earlier stage and See also:

• SHIELDS, JAMES (181b-1879)

shields the first offender from the consequences of his act, by sparing him a visit to the gaol .

In a speech on Prison Reform in the English See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House of See also:

• COMMONS

Commons on the loth of See also:

• JULY

July 191o, the See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home secretary outlined a proposed See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme for abolishing ticket-of-leave altogether, and entrusting the after-supervision of released prisoners to a central agency of semi-See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character . Aid to discharged prisoners has been largely undertaken in See also:

• EUROPEAN

European countries, where it is known under the name of patronage . See also:

• LOCAL

Local societies exist in most of the capitals and See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief cities, and efforts are made to See also:

• RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)

rescue neglected or criminal See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children and find work for adults on leaving gaol . This assistance has been called by its keenest supporters the best prophylactic for See also:

• CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime . Conditional liberation is in force in most of the See also:

• NORTHERN

Northern states of See also:

• AMERICA

America, and prisoners are constantly released on " See also:

• PAROLE (shortened from the Fr. parole d'honneur, word of honour)

parole " when they have satisfied the parole See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board (of prison officials) that they will not abuse their liberty; a watch is kept over all thus released, who are expected to make a monthly report of their conduct and actual position at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of reporting . If any one relapses he is liable to recommittal . See Three Reports of Commons' See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

Committee on the Operation of the Act substituting other See also:

• PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

Punishment in lieu of Transportation (1856) ; F . H . Wines, Punishment and See also:

• REFORMATION
• REFORMATION, THE

Reformation (1895) . (A . G.) .