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To His Excellency Major

General Bourke CB, Governor

in Cheif [sic] of New South Wales.

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The Humble Petition of Martin Smith

Per Earl St Vincent (1st) a Prisoner of

the Crown-

Respectfully Sheweth,

That Petitioner arrived in
This Colony in the month of Dec'r
1818, and was Tried upon the 1st
March 1830, before Major Lockyer Police
Magistrate at Parramatta upon a
charge of robbery in a dwelling House,
and being convicted received a Sen-
tence of Transportation to a Penal
Settlement for Three years ---

That Petitioner most solemnly
assures Your Excellency he is totally
innocent of the crime for which he is
at present so severely suffering, as a
proof of which he begs most respectfully