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  [centred] To the Under Colonial Secretary / Requests new Site be Selected for Police Reserve on McIvor River Rd. / [written diagonally on left]

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  that the reserve for Police paddock on the road from / Cooktown to the McIvor River, established in lieu / of that proclaimed in page 82 of the Government

[centred] Lands
[oval stamp, centred] COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE.
No. 4011
AUG 7
1883
QUEENSLAND.
[top left] In your reply be sure to give
[in rectangular box] 83. 13237 C. Secy
[under box] this number in the margin.
[round stamp, top right]
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
4641 Col Sec
10. 8. 83
QUEENSLAND
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC LANDS,
BRISBANE, 3rd August 1883
[written diagonally, left of page] Previous 83/4345 I Cook
[left of page] MEMORANDUM :
[centred] To the Under Colonial Secretary
Requests new Site be Selected for Police Reserve on McIvor River Rd.
[written diagonally on left]
previous
83. 3845 (Police)
B.C. Lands 28. 7. 83
Referring to the letter of the Commissioner
of Police (dated 26 July and numbered 83. 4345 I.Cook)
forwarded B.C. to this office on the 28th ult; stating
that the reserve for Police paddock on the road from
Cooktown to the McIvor River, established in lieu
of that proclaimed in page 82 of the Government
Gazette of 1880, Part 1st, is found to be unsuitable,
and requesting that the original reserve may be
re-proclaimed, the Under Colonial Secretary
is advised that in consequence of the new reserve
having been gazetted, the old one has been
surveyed and cut up for sale by auction. A
copy of Mr Commissioner Hume's report on the
matter is forwarded herewith.
It is requested that another site may be
selected.
[signed] E. Deshon
Under Secretary
[written diagonally, on left] Herewith
[written sideways, on bottom of page]
the Commissioner of Police
B/C CSecry
8 Aug 83
Inform Insp Fitzgerald
[signed] WF
19. 9. 83
Accly
[initials]
24. 9. 83