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QSA847064 1882 Correspondence re kidnapping of Aboriginal girl from Hinchinbrook Colonial Secretarys Office In Letters DR77869
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[upper left corner] Copy / [initials] [?] No. 68 / 857
[centred] Queensland.
[right of page] Colonial Secretary's Office, Brisbane 17th Decr 1868
Sir
With reference to your letter of the 19th of July last addressed to The Honorable The Attorney General wherein you bring under notice circumstances connected with the forcible abduction by certain persons whose names you have not given of three aboriginal children from "Bentick Island" and their deten =tion for a length of time at "Sweers Island" and further re= =quest that instructions may be forwarded to your guidance to enable you to prevent persons from thus molesting the aboriginals. I have the honor by direction to acquaint you that this is a matter
The Police Magistrate Burke Town }
[written lengthwise in left margin] Will Mr Keane[?] be good enough to lend me the Volume of the Imperial Statutes Containing the Slave Act referred to in this letter [signature] 21 [March?] [69?]