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and Palmerville, known as Burns
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the Colony, and would most respectfuly submit that an adequate Police Force should be stationed at an advantageous point without delay, in order that the said District may be effectively controlled by the patrolling police 4th. That your Petitioners would suggest as a suitable position for such Native Police Station a point on the Staaten River, on the main road between Normanton and Palmerville, known as Burns crossing of the Staaten River, situate about forty (40) miles above the Coast Reserve, or say seventy miles from the Sea Coast, from which point your petitioners consider the surrounding stations requiring protection could be most easily patrolled. And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will be praying [singaturess] AS Haydon E.A. Hungerford Robt. Rath A. Panton M. Leahy Alex Barton P.P. Scott J.B. Coombes