CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5] — Page 307

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I may thus, with the outlines of the work I have defined, and which will recuply my Department several years in executing retire under the conviction that I have done my duty to the Colony.

And that now younger hands may fairly be allowed to follow the lead I have given, and I trust I shall not be obliged by Her Majesty's Government to return, but that my Pension may be granted, if not, in consideration of my age and length of service, upon that or on account of a weakened constitution, the grounds of incessant toil.

300 and special services in the management of so difficult a tract of land on which Victoria stands, a tract of land which my predecessors never even attempted to grapple with, for on my arrival here I found everything in confusion; land had been sold without reference to the future, there was little reliable record even of such sales, and it became indispensable to resume every lot then sold and to release them in the manner defined by me upwards of twenty years ago; upon that plan and its various extensions from time to

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Spesilenay I may thus, with the outlines of the work I have defined, and which will recuply my Department several years in executing retire under the conviction that I have done my duty to the Colony. And that now younger hands may fairly be allowed to follow the lead I have given, and I trust I shall not be obliged by Her Majesty's Government to return, but that my Pension may be granted, if not, in consideration of my age and length of service, upon that or on account of a weakened constitution, the grounds of incessant toil. 300 and special services in the management of so difficult a tract of land on which Victoria stands, a tract of land which my predecessors never even attempted to grapple with, for on my arrival here I found everything in confusion; land had been sold without reference to the future, there was little reliable record even of such sales, and it became indispensable to resume every lot then sold and to release them in the manner defined by me upwards of twenty years ago; upon that plan and its various extensions from time to

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Spesilenay

I may thus, with the

outlines of the work I have defined,

and which will recuply my -- Departement several

years in excenting retire under the conviction that

my duty to the Colony

I have done

and that

now yo

younger

hands

may

fairly be allowed to follow the

lead I have given, and I trust I shall not be obliged by ther Majesty's Bovernment to return,

but that my

Pension may granted, if not, in consideration

& my age and length of servies,

upon trat

or on

a weakened constitution,

the grounds of incersant toil

ค

300

and special services in the management

of so difficult a tract of hand

thak

which Victoria stands

tract of land which

my predecessors

never even attempted to grapple

with, for

arrival here I

found every thing in confusion;

hand had been sold without

reference to

future, there

any design for the

was little

reliable record even of such sales, and it become indispensable to

resume

every

Forn hot then sold

and to release them in the

defined by

manner

me upwards of twenty

years ago; upon that plan and its various extensions from time to

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