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50/2516 ...... 2nd / 4 March 1850

Dep: Comm'y General
Respecting a/c [account] for passage
of Edw'd Elliott from Moreton Bay

________

No. 445

Commissariat Office

Sydney 1st March 1850

Sir,

The Accounts which accompanied
your letter of the 18th Ultimo No. 50/26
for the passage of the Convict named
in the Margin, from Moreton Bay,
are herewith returned as being incomplete,
inasmuch as the Requisition, the
supporting Document is wanting.

I would here observe that
all transport should be provided
by the Commissariat, and it is
suggested that the instructions
on this head may be attended
to in future -

On

[bottom of left margin]

The Honorable

The Colonial Secretary

...... &c ...... &c ...... &c

[diagonal notes in left margin]

2300

[in letter-writer's hand] Edward Elliott

[in another hand]

The Voucher
required sh'd [should] be forwarded
to the D'y Comm'y
Gen'l & then
accompanying
instructions
for the future
providing 5/-
Transport
prior to the
P. Magistrate
at Moreton
Bay.

.... [initials] ChFR

...... 6th

[in a third hand]

Mr Ramsay

Capt. Wickham

..... 15 March, 1850