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[top of left margin] 32/9031 - 8th December 1832

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Police Office
Port Macquarie
29th Nov [underlined] (1832)

No. 32/44

Sir

I have the honor
to acquaint you that the
Chief Constable of the Settlement
at Moreton Bay having been
sent by the Commandant
of that place on the 2n' Ins't
with a party of eight Special
Constables in search of seven
Runaways that had taken
a Southerly direction -
arrived here on the 22'd
without effecting his object
having walked upwards
of 300 miles. He and his
party necessarily required

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The Honorable

The Colonial Secretary