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[top of left margin] 31/9834 - 5th Dec'r 1831.

Commandant's Office
Port Macquarie
24th November 1831

No. 25/31

Sir

[square bracket added] [I am induced to
bring do your notice for
the information of His
Excellency the Acting
Governor the Circumstance
of a number of the Natives
to the Amount of not less
than thirty who have ar-
rived at this Settlement
infected with (to every
appearance) the Small
Pox in all its character
and Stages and on very many
instances one mass of pus-
tule they are from Trial Bay
and Point Plomer and
universally impressed with
the conviction that they have
imbibed the disease from

[on right] a

[bttom of left margin]

The Honorable

The Colonial Secretary.

[written in left margin]

[diagonally, in pencil]

Let me have
the Papers on the
subject of the Disease
as it appeared at
Bathurst.

Mr El'yd [in another hand, on right] Enclosed.