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49. Were you ever in the Police and in what Reading capacity?
30. Do you know any of the following persons: Pike, Thomas Selby James Little or Jamner Broome?
1. Did you receive testimonials from them, and if so why did you not produce them with your "printed testimonials" which you handed into the Police Commission Meeting at...
I decline to answer that question.
62. Why did you leave your services in the Army and in Australia? Why did you state your age as 20 in your "declaration when applying for employment in the City of London Police February 1848?
I hardly recollect the above questions being put to Mr Rice by His Excellency the Governor in my presence and that the answers thereto are those annexed hereto 26th September, 1872.
Which is fine(. Smith.
Acting Colonial Secretary