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[top left] 31/10397 - 22'd Dec'r 1831.

To His Excellency Major General Bourke ... Captain General and,

Governor in Chief in and over His Majestys [sic] Territory of New South Wales

and its Dependencies

The Humble Petition of Charles Bogg

Most respectfully Sheweth,

That your Petitioner with one Henry
Chantrell was on the fourth day of February [added below] (1 March 1828) AD1828 tried,
before the Honorable ... The Supreme Court ... for a Larcency
in Stealing a Watch the property of your Petitioners [sic] Father
one Robert Bogg from his Dwelling house

That your Petitioner and the said
Henry Chantrell were both found guilty on Such charge
and were Subsequently each Sentenced to Seven years
Transportation to a Penal Settlement

That your Petitioner and the said Henry
Chantrell were afterwards forwarded to Moreton Bay.

That your Petitioner is a Native a
the Colony and has upon this his first Conviction been sent
to a penal Settlement where he has been for 3 years and 5
months of his term of transportation -

That your Petitioner petitioned His Honor
Mr Justice Stephen before when he was tried, and who
was in possession of the facts connected with the peculiar
nature of his Case for a mitigation of his Sentence which

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[diagonally, in pencil]

There are other
Papers connected
with this Case
besides the
enclosed. --

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[in another hand]

I find no number of Registry
Mr Nye. [in a third hand] 31/10,802 enclosed

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[in a fourth hand] A notorious Runaway.

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