page_0183

[Written in RED]
60/59_
14th. January, 1860.
Surveyor General to the Colonial Secretary
Reporting on Mr. Commissioner Bogles'
application for leave of Absence.

Surveyor General's Office
Brisbane 13th. January 1860
60/20.
Sir,
In accordance with your
blank letter Cover of the 6th. instant
transmitting Mr. Commissioner Bogles'
Application for leave of Absence, for two
Months from the 1st. February next, for
the purpose of visiting Sydney on important
private buisness, I beg to state for the
Consideration of His Excellency the
Govenor, that although at the
present juncture, it is undesirable
that ant officer of this Department
should absent themselves from their
duties yet it would be desirable that
Mr. Bogle should visit Brisbane for
the purpose of affording information
relative

The Honorable
The Colonial Secretary
&c. _ &c. _ &c.
Brisbane

[Margin]
________________
Returned herewith