VPRS 4410/P Aboriginal Protectorate Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly And Annual Reports And Journals, unit 3

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Supplement - Suggestions

1st. That His Excellency the Governor might
be solicited to reserve a Block of Land in each Tribes
District for the Aborigines - In the centre of which
An Agricultural Aborigine Station be formed of as
many Acres and no more as will supply them with
food and grounds for recreation &c – And the
surrounding portion let out in Small Farms
at a Moderate rent per Acre, to individuals of
good character which rentage might be paid
in labor as might be required till the Aborig
inal Farm got under cultivation.

This in the end would be acting upon
a self supporting principle, and if extensively an
efficiently carried out throughout the located districts
would at once with some coercive Measures (or
restringents on the Whites which would be tantamount
to coercion) put the question at rest, and perma-
nently settle the Aborigines in their own country,
and they surrounded with the fruits and results
of Industry. - A Missionary should be attach-
ed to every District and alternately visit each
Station.

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2nd. That His Excellency the Governor might
be solicited to grant, that in whatever District
Licenses are granted and Land sold, that the 15
per cent of the Sale of Lands and sums arising from
Licences, Fines &c &c, be equally divided one half
in bhoof of the Aborigines, and Stations formed
for them on the plan as in the first sugges-
tion, and the other half in support of the
Border Police

This will meet the apparent inequality
of the present System, as in Gipps Land and other
parts where Police Stations are and have been
formed in the absence of any Mediators between
the Aborigines and the Settlers. -

3d. That His Excellency the Governor
might be solicited to take into consideration
some more effectual and stringent Instructions,
touching Mounted Police and other parties in their
Sortiees [sic] against the Aborigines, especially in
remote districts, in order to prevent if possible
the awful sacrifice of life which too frequently
attends such collisions - And that His Excellency
might be solicited to Order that an inquest
be holden upon the bodies of Aborigines found
dead