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a century and I have twelve
years [sic] experience of the Bench
and the Aborigines of this country
nine years of which I have lived
in disturbed districts - I can
obtain a Letter of recommendation
from nearly all the Magistrates
and Squatters in the Burnett, Darling
Downs & Moreton Bay Districts, if
necessary, as to my being a fit
and proper person for such
command.

I beg to offer my apologies
for thus troubling you and
pray that my straitened cir-
cumstances and blighted pros-
pects in this country may