“…* thought of an old bridge that I know in Sturminster Newton in Dorset. It still has a cast-iron notice bolted to it that warns anybody thinking of damaging or defacing the bridge in any way that the penalty is transportation. To Australia. Now, Sturminster Newton is a lovely town, but it astonishes me that the bridge is still standing.”
– Douglas Adams, from ‘Riding the Rays’, reprinted in “The Salmon of Doubt.”
I shared that here as a reference to the use of ‘transportation’ as a penalty. (And because I like the punch line.)