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No 38/457
Colonial Secretary’s Office
Sydney, 5th. May 1838.

Sir,
I have had the honor to
receive and to submit to the
Governor your letter of the 9th. January
last No 38/2, stating that Mr De Villiers
has resigned the charge of the Native
Police, Established at Melbourne, and
that Mr. Langhorne has undertaken
it - a letter has also been received
from Mr De Villiers, shewing his reasons
for giving up his appointment and
again tendering his services to fill
the same Situation - In reply, I am
directed

The
Police Magistrate
Melbourne

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directed to inform you, that His
Excellency is anxious that the
experiment of forming a Native
Police should not be given up-
but, at the same time, He does not
consider it to be a service which
can advantageently [sic] be kept
in the hands of any Teacher of
Religion - but on the contrary,
would materially interfere with
his more appropriate duties -

His Excellency instructs me to
add, that you are at liberty to
use your own discretion as to
reinstating Mr De Villiers, or
employing any other person - at the
rate authorised in my letter of the
6th January 1838.

I have the honor to be
Sir
Your Most Obedient Servant
E Deas Thomson

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Answer about Mr De Villiers
resigning the native police
& instructions about him

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5.5.38