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Surveyor Generals Office
Sydney 9th December 1859

Sir

I have the honor to request that you will
do me the favor to bring under the notice of
His Excellency the Governor, my application
for a Draftsmanship in the Survey Office
at Brisbane, with the enclosed Memorandum
from the Acting Surveyor General, stating the
satisfactory manner in which I have filled
the same appointment in this Department,
for the space of nearly Three Years.

Trusting that my application may
meet with His Excellencys favourable consideration.

I have the honor to be
Sir
Your Most Obed't Serv't
Robert Sherer Crummer

[footnote bottom left of page - addressee :
"The Private Secretary
Government House
Brisbane"]