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Tasmania: A fascinating group of documents including an 1827…
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Melbourne
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11-Dec-2017
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Tasmania: A fascinating group of documents including an 1827 document listing salaries in the Police Magistrates Department at Richmond, a May 1834 application by Alfred Luttrell for a licence to operate the William Tell Hotel at Black Brush, an 1835 series of depositions regarding the accidental death of a prisoner while working in a road-building gang, the 1838 findings of the Justices in a matter of assault at Coal River, an 1841 Police Office Richmond report re Thomas Sharpe's refusal to pay his hired servant, James Iseaby his due wages, the 1846 documents recording the depositions made in the case of a horse, allegedly stolen by James Brasher, an August 1843 document by which the inhabitants of Muddy Plains apply for Police protection, a July 1843 letter from Richmond regarding the need for more police at Brown Mountain, Native Corners, between Jerusalem and Green Ponds and at Kangaroo River, other applications for licences to sell alcohol (the hotels are named) and several other items up to the 1860s.
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