QSA861248 1861 Letter from Colonial Secretary to Commandant 19 March, Letterbook of Letters to Other Departments, DR127329

Colonial Secretary's Office, Brisbane, 19^th March, 1861. -

[in left margin] [pencil tick] 61/322. -

Sir,

I have the honor to request that you will make inquiries respecting the circumstances referred to in the accompanying advertisement, and procure a report from the Officer commanding the Detachment in the district in which they are alleged to have occurred, in order that the Government may without delay be made aware what amount of truth there is in the statement bearing the names of Mess^rs J. & A. Mortimer. -

I have &c.

(Sgd),

R. G. W. Herbert.

Commandant of the Native Mounted Police. -