Tracking the Native Police
VPRS 4/P Inward Registered Correspondence, Police Magistrate Port Phillip District, unit 3, item 37/105
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employment. The danger
which the Memorialists
represent of a Collision
between the Aboriginal
In habitants and the
Settlers has been the
principal reason for the
appointment of a Magis=
=trate in so remote a
a quarter. From motives
of humanity, justice,
and true policy, it is
most desirable that an
amicable intercourse
with the Native Tribes
should be cultivated by
every possible means
from the earliest moment
of the occupation of their
Country, and to this
most important object
I am directed to call
your
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your particular atten=
=tion. In order that
you may fully compre=
=hend the views of this
Government with respect
to these People, I have
the honor to enclose
Copies of two Memoranda
addressed to Mr. Langhorne
the Missionary for the
civilisation of the Abor=
=igines now stationed at
Melbourne. In the first
of these you will find
an Extract from the
instructions furnished
to Captain Lonsdale on
his proceeding to Port
Phillip last year, which
bear on this point.
By a careful attention
to the spirit to those
Instructions