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[top of left margin] 32/2896 - 11th April 1832

[on right] Sheriffs [sic] Office Sydney 9 April 1832

Sir,

It having been reported to me by the Superintendent of the Phœnix Hulk, that the Colonial Sentence of the Prisoner named in the margin will expire on the 1st June next, I have the honor to request instructions, whether he shall be returned to Moreton Bay, or retained in the Hulk until his Sentence expires -

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your obed't Servant'

[signed] T. Macquoid

[on right] Sheriff

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[bottom of left margin]

The Hon'ble

The Colonial Secretary

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[written in left margin]

Reilly Smith

P. [Per] General Hewitt

an Evidence from

Moreton Bay 14 Feb'y / '32

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[written diagonally, across page, from bottom-left corner]

Mr Hely to report.

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[in pencil, in another hand, through the above line] See below.

Ryley Smith. Sent Herewith, Warwick Ass. [Assizes] 7 Mar. '27, Life - labourer. Tried Gen'l Sessions Sydney 30 May 1829. Illegally at large. 3 Years -

Sentence expires 30 May 1832.

[in first writer's hand, in pencil]

It cannot be necessary to send this man to Moreton Bay.

[in second writer's hand]

The Sheriff to retain him in the Hulk until the 1 June

..... & then to discharge him to H. P. Barrack

Mr Hely inf'd ............. 13 April 1832