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the indulgence it would enable
these men to bring up their
families in a state of respectability.

Trusting you will kindly
excuse my having thus intruded on
you in their favor.

I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most obed. Serv't.
Fred B Russell
Capt
Staff Off'r of Pens'rs
for V. D. Land

[marginalia]
This
may be
forwarded to
the Police Magistrate
at Moreton Bay
with a view of bringing
the case of these men
under his consideration in
the [...search] of his being able to employ
them in any capacity, but of course
it must be left to his discretion to employ
them or not. They [might?] be too old for
the Police & it is hardly probable that if willing
to work they cannot obtain employment.
ChFR 29th

[...] Captain Wickham
Captain Russell
informed
9 June 1851