CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3] — Page 75

According to the rule of the Bolien service she will receive rations for six months subsequent to her husband's death, which costs the Government 16/8 per mouth, making a total expense of £5. I beg respectfully therefore to make application for a gratuity for her, which may be sufficient to pay for a passage...

I have to...

(Signed) Charles May.

Superintendent of Police

Referred for the information, and orders

His Excellency The Governor...

of His

(Signed) C. Br. Hillier,

Chief Magistrate

(True Copy)

Manie

Colonial Secretary-

(N3.)

74

Police Department,

1544

# January,

1848.

I have the honor to lay before you for submission to the consideration of His Excellency The Governor an application made by Police Constable R. Little A. 41- to the following effect specified...

and under the circumstances

On the 5th September 1845 Police Constable Wilson died leaving two children (a boy now aged 15 and a girl aged // the mother deserted her family upon the embarkation of the families of the 55th Regiment to China and it is believed is dead. The boy through your interest has been apprenticed on board ship- C. B. Hillier, esq., Chief Magistrate,

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