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[top of left margin] 32/5757 - 3 August 1832

[on right] Master Attendants [sic] Office Sydney 3rd Aug. 1832

Sir,

In reply to your Letter of the 1st inst. No. 32/92, Stating that (50) Fifty Prisoners were to be forwarded to Moreton Bay Per Brig Governor Phillip and requesting to be informed whether any Horses can be Sent down by her,

I have the honor to inform you, that in consequence of the quantity of Provisions, Stores &c required to be forwarded by this opportunity Two Horses only can be taken on Deck

I have the honor to be

Sir

Your most Obedient Servant

[signed] Jno Nicholson

Master Attendant

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The Hon'ble

The Colonial Secretary

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Let me see the last order for sending Horses to Moreton Bay and not yet corrected.

[in another hand, in pencil]

Mr J ... Herewith Page 128. 30/413

2 of these Six Horses have gone.

[in a third hand, in pencil]

On the 25 Nov'r 1830 there was an order given to send 6 Horses to Moreton Bay as opportunities offered and only 2 have since been sent.

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Inform Mr Nicholson that no Horses are now to be sent ---

[in second writer's hand, in pencil] Mr J

[written over the above, in faded ink] Mr Nicholson 7 Aug't 1832