<mods:mods xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" version="3.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-0.xsd"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Convict James Belbin's references, Van Diemen's Land 1843 and 1844</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">J</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Belbin</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Copies of testimonials, entitled 'memorandum of certificates to my memorial to his excellency Governor Willmott to grant me a pension on my retiring from my situation as superintendent and inspector to Government Slaughter Houses', attesting to the good character of James Belbin, convict, from Sir John Lewes Pedder, who noted that Belbin's care in entering the marks of animals brought to slaughter were of great value in detecting sheep stealing; Algernon Montagu, Matthew Forster, W. Fletcher, William Kermode, Charles Swanston, John Kerr and George Thomas Boyes.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">430100 Historical Studies</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Other</mods:genre></mods:mods>