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to signify to you any Approval of these

arrangements.

Iliare

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6.

Sir,

Police Department,

3/24 December, 1847.

I have the honor to

report,

that, in

consequence of the numerous robberies by violence,

committed on the roads and at the

villages round the Island that it is very necessary that

an extended Police be established and as the

existing Force (with the exceptions specified) is only sufficient for

the district of Victoria, that

all

increase is required. I accordingly respectfully submit a detail of the Force considered requisite to give the necessary protection and the places at which they should be stationed, likewise the particulars of cost of such increased establishment and (being one of the Accessorys of Police Rate) the means of defraying the expense

B. Hillier, Resdt. Chief Magistrate,

&c.

&c.