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Native Police Encampment
Yarra Yarra 31st March
1842

Sir,
I have the honor to lay
before you agreeable to your
Order, a Report of my proceed=
-ings in forming the Native
Police.-

According to your
Honor’s verbal Instructions
of the 25th of Janry last directing
me to proceed to the Central
Aboriginal Station Nerre Nerre
Warren, for the purpose of
forming a body of Police from
the Yarra Yarra and Western
Port Tribes, I arrived there on

To
His Honor
the Superintendent

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No 42/674
8th Apl 1842
Supdt of Nate Pce
His rept upn ye ste
of ye Native Police

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on the 28th. and after commu=
nicating with Mr Thomas the
Assistant Protector, dispatched
Messengers to bring in all the
young and able bodied men
of the Tribes mentioned, many
of whom were at that time
absent from the Station-
In a few days the messen=
gers arrived bringing with
them a number of both
Tribes; with the Assistance
of Mr. Thomas I then informed
them of my intentions, and
that I was sent by your
Honor to select from them
a Corps of Police, that they
should be clothed and
Rationed the same as the
Mounted Police, The twenty
one men selected volunteered
their services and I enlisted
them in the usual manner
each man making his
mark, in the presence of
Witnesses, Mr Thomas ex=
plaining to them in their
own language the consequen=
ces of breaking their agree=