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Enclosure with Sheriffs [sic] letter of 12 Feb'y 1850

50/1864

Conviction and Commitment; General Purposes

New South Wales

To Wit

To the Chief Constable of Grafton in
the Said Colony, and to all other Constables
in the Said Colony, and to the Keeper of
the Gaol at Sydney, in Said Colony

Whereas ... Willliam Peters ... late of
the Clarence River in said Colony, (Laborer)
was on this day duly convicted before us ...
Francis Marsh and Henry Garrard Esquires ...
two of Her Majestys [sic] Justices of the Peace ...
acting in and for the Colony, (the City of
Sydney and Town of Melbourne excepted)
duly authorised in that behalf, for that
he, the Said William Peters ... did from
the 23'd to 28th of Jan'y last refuse to
work for his employer ... Mr William Johnson
of the Coldstream River, ... and did
moreover use most abusive and obscene
language to Mrs Johnson, wife of
the Said Wm. Johnson, against the
form of the Statute in that Case made
and provided. And we the Said
Magistrates thereupon adjudged the
Said William Peters for his Said

Offence