[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Manuscript letter from the Chief Magistrate of Police in Van Diemen’s Land, to the Police Magistrate at Richmond, re. directions given by the Colonial Secretary for keepin

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Foolscap folio, 320 x 200 mm, manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828 , 2 pages; written in a clerical hand and signed at the foot M. Forster, CPM (Matthew Forster, Chief Police Magistrate), headed Circular. Police Office, Hobart, 23rd April 1833 , addressed to The Police Magistrate, Richmond (William Thomas Parramore); Forster writes: I have the honour to transmit herewith for Your information and Guidance Copy of a letter received from the Colonial Secretary conveying certain directions as to the mode of disposing of Police characters made out on Parchment of all the Prisoners in your District and which when completed are directed to be forwarded to you by the Muster Master. I am at the same time directed to request that you will have the goodness to give full effect by all the means in your Power to the Lieutenant Governor s wishes upon this subject and that you will take care that your clerk enters all sentences in a small clear and legible hand . ; the document has become separated along the centre horizontal fold (no loss of text), edges a little roughened, but complete. Matthew Forster (1796-1846) , soldier and public servant, was the son of John Randall Forster, of Berwick-on-Tweed, lieutenant-colonel of the 24th Regiment in 1799 and later brigade major at Plymouth, England. After studying at the Royal Military College, Gentleman Cadet Matthew Forster was commissioned ensign in the 46th Regiment in December 1811 and promoted lieutenant

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